About usMark Kreider Mark started Overseas Motor Works Inc. in 1979, in center city Philadelphia to service Imports. After repeated requests from his service customers, he began to locate replacement cars for them. This put him in contact with many dealers and automobile auctions including the Manheim Auto Auction in Manheim PA, (Lancaster County). When Mark began attending the Manheim Auto Auction weekly in 1988 they had an average of 1800 cars registered every Friday, today, they have over 9000 cars, trucks, and sport utilities every Friday and an additional 5000 "highline" vehicles every other Thursday. Although the Manheim Auto Auction group has grown to over 130 auctions handling over 5 million vehicles a year we are fortunate to have the biggest and the best right here in Manheim. Our sales have pretty closely paralled the auctions as we have gone from selling ten cars a month in 1990 to 250 a month today. Our Auction Management division sells another 200 each month for dealer clients. Unfortunately the retail customer got left behind as the sales business became almost exclusively a wholesale, or dealer-to-dealer only business. This is why we moved the sales business to Manheim, PA in 1998 and Overseas Motor Works Inc began doing business as "Manheim Imports". In 2006 we acquired one of the best retail facilities in the area to better serve our customers. Carlos DaSilva continues to operate Overseas Motor Works in Philadelphia for import service, repair and retail sales. Joe Mooreemail: jmoore@manheimimports.com Cell: 610-316-4908 Joe comes from a family that has been in the automobile business for three generations. Both his grandfather & father were new car dealers. Joe worked for his father's VW, Porsche & Audi dealership in Philadelphia for 25 years before starting his own European high end repair & used car business with a friend J Winsor in Bryn Mawr, PA. This business continues to operate as J & J Motors. Joe joined Manheim Imports in May 2003. His emphasis, as it has been for over 35 years will be personal service and retail sales.
Patrick Reddinger Patrick, a Lancaster county native, joins Manheim Imports after managing the Lititz location of CJ’s Tire and Automotive Services. He has since taken on the roll of our resident tire expert ensuring our inventory, and your next vehicle, is riding on the proper speed and load ratings. Ed Diamond Ed joins Manheim Imports after founding an internet marketing company specializing in autos and trucks. Direct Motorcar marketed exported cars from Canada to the US, Europe and Asia utilizing ebaymotors, Autotrader and search engines. A top 500 seller on eBay Motors in 2002-2003 Ed has consulted to a number of organizations on internet marketing methodologies. Ed spent the first 15 years in the PepsiCo organization in a variety of roles including CIO of PepsiAmericas and was CEO of a 175 person software company in Canada. Ed's combination of technology and automobile skills enables Manheim Imports to expand it's abilities to serve you, the customer. He is also a "car guy" having owned and restored a number of muscle cars over the years. Bob Kruse Bob has spent 20 years in the sales end of the automobile buisness. After 10 years selling new Japanese cars for Lancaster County Motors, Bob saw the light and switched to used cars. In 1994 Bob left Lancaster County Motors to build up the the used car department at Stillman Volvo, the Delaware Valleys largest Volvo dealer. In 5 years he tripled their sales of used cars and best of all began doing a lot of buisness with Mark, who quickly became his primary source of used Volvos. In 1999 Bob went back to Lancaster County Motors as the wholesale buyer for 2 preowned and 4 new car stores. In 2001 he got smart and joined Manheim Imports. Bob thinks he is nicer and smarter than the rest of us but since he's short we don't argue with him.
Jeff Ludwig Jeff is our expediter, buyer, logistics coordinator, recon and auction liason, and general problem solver. In other words he's stuck doing all the work (according to him anyway) but he's good at everything so thats why it seems that way. Out of town dealers especially lean on Jeff for his auction knowledge and contacts.
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