Junkers pay off for auto salvage yard


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Ruth, were raising three children on one income, his teacher’s salary, and they were just getting by. He realized they needed more.


“After school, I did paint and body work just to make extra money,” Butler said, “but working for someone else didn’t amount to a lot of cash, so I decided to do the work for myself.”


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In 1970, Jack Butler and his wife,


Butler bought “junker” cars, fixed them up and sold them. As his business grew, he opened a car lot in Ensley, hiring people to operate the lot while he still taught in the classrooms of Escambia County. In the evenings and on days off, he worked as a salesman and mechanic on the lot.


“My dad, James Cecil Butler,


always wanted to restore and sell cars, so I suppose his dream became mine,” Butler said.


“He


also told me there was money to be made in the salvage business which he called junk yards.”


Butler began to accumulate cars


that he had stripped for parts, and realized there was still value in the rest of the usable parts and the bodies, which could also be sold as scrap metal. His sideline business began to grow, and in 1977 he opened his first salvage yard on Highway 29 in Molino, and in 1979, his second salvage yard on Johnson Avenue. It was time to give up teaching.


The business was profitable, and the children were getting old enough to help, so he opened a body shop, car lot and a truck parts place on Pensacola Boulevard at Nine Mile Road in Ensley.


Success was the result of hard


work, Butler said. “That, and a strong desire to succeed. I wanted to do more than my parents had, and I looked at everything as a challenge. If I wasn’t successful at one thing, I went another direction.”


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