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Dec. 3, 20123:55 p.m.

“Every day no different — snow, rain, sleet, ice, 105 degrees outside — great day to sell a car, great day to buy a car.”

– Davis-Moore Automotive owner Dawson Grimsley on what he learned from Grant Davis, the late owner

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July 18, 20123:53 p.m.

“It only takes money.”

– Davis-Moore owner Dawson Grimsley about what it takes to trick out the average Chevy Tahoe to look like the “Storm Chasers” Dominator vehicle, which will be on display at his dealerships this weekend

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May 22, 201211:10 a.m.

“Sometimes it’s a whole lot easier to do that if you don’t know what you’re doing.”

– Car salesman Dawson Grimsley, who claims not to be a good golfer but scored a hole-in-one at the West Wichita Sunrise Rotary Charity Golf Tournament Monday (and donated his prize of a $12,500 Harley-Davidson back to the charity)

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Jan. 20, 20114:02 p.m.

“I didn’t get a DUI. The judge didn’t make me do it.”

— Dawson Grimsley of Davis-Moore Auto Group, speaking to the Wichita American Marketing Association Thursday about his public service announcements on automobile safety

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July 8, 20103:03 p.m.

“Come hear all the dirt on Brett Harris, as if there hasn’t already been enough.”

— Car dealer Dawson Grimsley, who is one of several people prepared to poke some fun at the B98 morning show host at a July 20 roast to benefit Senior Services of Wichita

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Sept. 15, 20092:09 p.m.

dawson“You know what it was for, right? It was for the best-looking car dealer in the country.”

— Dawson Grimsley of Davis-Moore Auto Group, joking about the full-page ad in USA Today Monday celebrating him as the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s National Man of the Year

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Aug. 25, 20093:23 p.m.

“Dawson, you don’t understand. You are coming to this meeting.”

– What Davis-Moore’s Dawson Grimsley said a GM district sales manager told him when he said he didn’t plan to attend a Wednesday meeting in St. Louis to discuss new dealer agreements

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Associated creates, pulls River Festival video

May 4, 200911:10 a.m.

mike-snyderThere’s a video that briefly circulated about the Top 10 things that can get you in trouble at the Wichita River Festival. But Wichita Festivals didn’t produce it — or even know about it.

Associated, which creates the River Festival poster every year, did the video. But it wasn’t a client job.

“We decided to have some fun,” says chief executive Mike Snyder.

“We don’t talk about funnel cakes,” he says. “We talk about some things that are very real. Very human.”

And very inappropriate to print in a family newspaper.

“When you get 100,000 people out, you see all kinds of different things,” Snyder says.

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