Ex-Chrysler dealers remaining resilient

SHREWSBURY – Jim and Jon Schwartz aren’t going anywhere. The brothers at Schwartz & Sons Chrysler-Mazda on Shrewsbury Avenue have had a busy week since the letter from bankrupt Chrysler LLC arrived saying they were one of 789 dealers nationwide being severed as part of the company’s restructuring. It stunned and angered them, but was not a death knell, because Chrysler sales are 20 percent of their revenue, with Mazda making up most of their $30 million in car sales. They’re reaching out to reassure customers, selling Mazdas as usual and bumping up their used-car inventory, which will let them keep their 35 employees as planned. They don’t know why they were…

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