The Smoke Floats

I've sold thousands of vehicles. Most of them blur together. But every once in a while, one refuses to become just another sale, and it sends you back to where your own story started.

This book isn't a car-buying guide. It's the story underneath twenty years on the sales floor: a small Michigan town, a red Chevelle, summers at the lake, and a friend named Sonny. It's about the people who showed up, the ones we lost, and the customers who reminded me what I was chasing all along.

The cars were never the story. The people who showed up were.

What's inside:

• 57 chapters in ten parts, from the Monte Carlo that started it all to the last word on success

• Growing up in Pinckney, building cars, and the friendship with Sonny

• The customers who taught me the most, from "I Got a Guy" to the dream Corvette and the customer who waited too long

• What "Burn rubber, not your soul" really means

• Instant digital download (PDF)