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How many former league players lend their names to car yards around Adelaide, I came up with the following:

John Cahill (Port) - John Cahill Motors (Klemzig)
Graham Cornes (Glenelg, South) - Graham Cornes Toyota (St Marys), Graham Cornes Used Cars (Medindie)
Peter Page (Central) - Peter Page Holden (Elizabeth)
Wayne Philis (Glenelg) - Wayne Philis Ford & Kia (Christies Beach & Reynella)
Brian Thredgold (South) - Brian Thredgold Cars (Brighton)

Mark Riccuto

I think Ken Eustice had one?

Steve Hywood motors

Dennis Eblen

Ray Hayes - Holden I think

John H Ellers Holden which is now Hamilton Holden (J.H Ellers former Glenelg President)

McGowan Fiat?? IIRC he played for South / Torrens ??

Bob Shearman had one (albeit for a short time) on West Terrace in the early 1970s.

Great thread! I think KG had one, do umpires count?
I looked through some 70s Budgets recently - pretty sure I recall an advert for a Knuckles yard but could be wrong

overloaded wrote:Mark Riccuto

It was just his face on the sign, his brother ran it.

GWW wrote:I think Ken Eustice had one?

Ken Eustice Datsun had massive yards on Main North Road and also South Road at Edwardstown - for awhile in the 70s he was the #1 privately owned Datsun dealer in Australia.

A former west player from the 1970's reunion (name eludes me for the moment) has a substantial dealership in tasmania - will edit and add when his name comes to me unless someone else can jog my memory first

What I'm curious about is - is this a South Australian thing where ex footballers have operated car yards - or does the same thing happen in Melbourne and Perth as well..??

Footy Chick wrote:

overloaded wrote:Mark Riccuto

It was just his face on the sign, his brother ran it.

Without a licence?

Did Dave Boyd have one?

Pretty sure Ken Eustice had a smaller yard on South Rd at Richmond, yet the land it was on was compulsorily acquired for the works for the extension of the south rd connector through to the bakewell bridge? - After the works were completed I think it was re let as a stone shop or something similar?

John Cahill Motors on North East rd seems pretty popular and they expanded their site into next door a few years ago.

Am looking for a photo of a "John H Ellers" Dealership Sticker for one of my restoration projects! I rang Hamiltons and sadly they don't have any pics, there is a good market for replica dealership stickers on feeBay, but mostly they are from interstate bar Smiths of Adelaide which are available readily enough, also looking for a Freemans of Adelaide Sticker Pic to copy also!

Mr Beefy wrote:Did Dave Boyd have one?

Sure did - "Dave Boyd Nissan", Old Port Rd.
I used to clean the windows there.
The service department was where 'Nisscare' is now @ Royal Pk.

Mark_Beswick wrote:A former west player from the 1970's reunion (name eludes me for the moment) has a substantial dealership in tasmania - will edit and add when his name comes to me unless someone else can jog my memory first

bruce stevenson
doug thomas had afew car yards in his day

rd wrote:

GWW wrote:I think Ken Eustice had one?

Ken Eustice Datsun had massive yards on Main North Road and also South Road at Edwardstown - for awhile in the 70s he was the #1 privately owned Datsun dealer in Australia.

yup - I bought my 260Z there in 1975.

tom bonnily toyota, thought i may as well put up non players as well