BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
GREATER FORT DODGE GROWTH ALLIANCE BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
SHIMKAT MOTOR COMPANY Fort Dodge’s oldest car dealership, Shimkat Motor Company, is celebrating their 75th anniversary this June. Shimkat Motor Company specializes in new Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Fiat automobiles. They also offer a wide variety of Certified vehicles on the preowned side. Brothers Edward and George Shimkat opened the dealership’s doors for the very first time on June 1, 1947. The auto brands they sold — Plymouth, DeSoto and REO Trucks — are now just memories and today’s computerized vehicles make the automobiles of the 1940s and 1950s seem quite primitive in comparison. They operated out of a temporary space while a new building was being built at 1225 Second Ave. S. That address was the home of Shimkat Motor Company for more than five decades. In 2004, the company moved to their current location on 5th Avenue South. Today the company is in their third generation with owners Ed Shimkat Jr. and Bill Shimkat. They continued on the tradition
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