By Robert Bravender
As most movie-goers know, sequels generally aren’t as good the originals. But occasionally they’re as good as or even better—“Terminator 2,” “Star Trek 2,” and “Godfather 2.” In the case of Greg’s Too Car Care Center Inc., it was a repair shop which surpassed the owner’s original garage in Fort Smith, Ark.
“I first had Greg’s Exxon about 1987, a gas station with a car wash,” explained namesake Greg Whitsitt. “Back then there wasn’t a whole lot of money in selling fuel, so we were thinking about others things we could do. About 1989 or 1990 we started looking for another location [to do these], and ended up renting a large kind of warehouse about a half mile down the street from the gas station. We called it Greg’s Too.”
With more room for repairs, Whitsitt would need more parts. For this he turned to…
