Amador County – A CBS Nightly News crew was videotaping around Amador County yesterday in preparation for the Motherlode of its interviews – today’s 10 a.m. interview with Frank Halvorson of Prospect Motors. Halvorson said Wednesday afternoon that television news crew members from Los Angeles and San Francisco were coordinating interviews with various people around town Wednesday. He said they did on-camera interviews with the athletic directors at both Amador High School in Sutter Creek and at Argonaut High School in Jackson. They also were planning to interview in Sutter Creek, with City Manager and Police Chief Rob Duke. It all stems from the 2-month-old closing of Halvorson’s 22-year-old General Motors dealership, Prospect Motors. The crew also took video footage around Jackson and the Gold Country and interviewed 30-year customer of Halvorson’s, 84-year-old grade school principal Virginia Grabbe. The principal at Isador Cohen K to 6th grade School in the Sacramento City Unified School District, Grabbe brought Halvorson a copy of her new book, “Love Ya, It’s Been A Great Ride,” a memoir that will be coming soon to Barnes & Noble. The Orangevale resident said she has been a 30-year customer of Frank Halvorson’s Prospect Motors. A widow, she said she has never been to a Jiffy Lube, but has her Cadillac serviced at Prospect – or did so until GMAC pulled the papers on the dealership. Grabbe said she has bought 6 Cadillacs at Prospect, one every five years. She rolled up in her 2008 STS Cadillac on Wednesday, in her white fur coat, for the interview with CBS. She said she bought the new Caddy in August, adding, Quote: “so that will hold me until we can get them reopened.” Halvorson said he will sit for an interview at 10 a.m. today with Bill Whittaker, to film a spot for the CBS Nightly News with Katie Couric. He said Paul Facie of Los Angeles pitched the story to the Couric machine and the rest is soon to be history. The cars are gone and the showrooms are empty, but a rally 2 months ago may have at least stirred GMAC’s brass, if not just filled one of their e-mail bins. Now national ears will be hearing the telling of a story born in the Gold Country and reared by the federal bailout of the auto industry – the coincidental same week the Halvorson dealership was closed. But that’s the start of the rest of the story. Back to you, Katy. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:58
Prospect Motors
Amador County – A CBS Nightly News crew was videotaping around Amador County yesterday in preparation for the Motherlode of its interviews – today’s 10 a.m. interview with Frank Halvorson of Prospect Motors. Halvorson said Wednesday afternoon that television news crew members from Los Angeles and San Francisco were coordinating interviews with various people around town Wednesday. He said they did on-camera interviews with the athletic directors at both Amador High School in Sutter Creek and at Argonaut High School in Jackson. They also were planning to interview in Sutter Creek, with City Manager and Police Chief Rob Duke. It all stems from the 2-month-old closing of Halvorson’s 22-year-old General Motors dealership, Prospect Motors. The crew also took video footage around Jackson and the Gold Country and interviewed 30-year customer of Halvorson’s, 84-year-old grade school principal Virginia Grabbe. The principal at Isador Cohen K to 6th grade School in the Sacramento City Unified School District, Grabbe brought Halvorson a copy of her new book, “Love Ya, It’s Been A Great Ride,” a memoir that will be coming soon to Barnes & Noble. The Orangevale resident said she has been a 30-year customer of Frank Halvorson’s Prospect Motors. A widow, she said she has never been to a Jiffy Lube, but has her Cadillac serviced at Prospect – or did so until GMAC pulled the papers on the dealership. Grabbe said she has bought 6 Cadillacs at Prospect, one every five years. She rolled up in her 2008 STS Cadillac on Wednesday, in her white fur coat, for the interview with CBS. She said she bought the new Caddy in August, adding, Quote: “so that will hold me until we can get them reopened.” Halvorson said he will sit for an interview at 10 a.m. today with Bill Whittaker, to film a spot for the CBS Nightly News with Katie Couric. He said Paul Facie of Los Angeles pitched the story to the Couric machine and the rest is soon to be history. The cars are gone and the showrooms are empty, but a rally 2 months ago may have at least stirred GMAC’s brass, if not just filled one of their e-mail bins. Now national ears will be hearing the telling of a story born in the Gold Country and reared by the federal bailout of the auto industry – the coincidental same week the Halvorson dealership was closed. But that’s the start of the rest of the story. Back to you, Katy. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
