Stancils garage!

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.

whitey45

whitey45

SILVER Star
Joined
Oct 17, 2007
Threads
419
Messages
6,272
Location
San Gregorio
Attention John Pardion, maybe you can tell us the history of the sticker, picked up a real nice untouched 65 out of sacramento a while back and this sticker was still in its place!! I do recollect stancils doing alot of cruiser business. Didnt Earl Warden work there?

image.webp
 
Stancils Toyota Placerville

Never heard of them.













Just joking....... Yes Earl Warden did work for Joe Stancil before Earl opened Earl Warden Auto Repair

Stancils Toyota was one of the first Toyota dealerships in the USA

Just happen to have some stickers, and a front page that Toyota had on a calendar years ago, given to me by Tim Repass, their long time parts manager. And all their microfiche and early parts books. John

DSC00328.webp
 
Very cool , cant, well can believe you have stickers, I think alot of fj45s came to Stancils, from the many i have come across in northern california, this seems to have been a hotbed for early 60's fj40's and especially 45's.This should give Johnnyc something to do !!
 
Cool stuff!!

I'll try to store this in my memory folder for cruiser stuff :)

Stancils still around? If not when did they go under?
 
Stancils Garage is no longer around. Sold to Thompsons Toyota of Placerville 12? years ago. Johnnyc, I'll look for more history. John
 
I would love to dig up the past of this dealership, i think it was a major influence on early cruiser importation. Im sure Danny Warden could chime in if he was on the board ?
 
found this article from 1991 news paper... says they started in 62?

"THE STANCILS of Placerville and the Gewekes of Lodi have been saluted by Toyota as the Japanese automaker's oldest and newest dealers in Northern California.
Joe Stancil Sr. established his dealership in March of 1962, while Daryl Geweke recently broke ground for a facility that is scheduled to open next February in Lodi.
Joe Stancil Jr., who took over from his father in 1982, recalls that they came upon a weird thing while driving through the foothills in early 1962. We chased"
 
from 1992

JOHN WEBB, a native of Iowa who was reared in Kansas, has moved to rural Placerville to become general manager of Stancil's Toyota.
Joe Stancil Jr., who succeeded his father, Joe Stancil Sr., as president of the dealership, brought Webb in from a Dodge dealership in urban Oakland.
Webb came to California in 1975. He lived in San Diego for a short time, then while visiting some friends in rural Lake County decided to try his hand at pear farming in Kelseyville.
 
stancil went into aircraft

http://www.skywagons.com/

but... Jr... had ran into some issues it seems: http://www.garciniacambogiaplan.com/article/

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Placerville aircraft broker in a novel case involving the alleged sale of six planes to Mexican drug traffickers.
Joe Stancil, former owner of a Placerville Toyota dealership, and his company Stancil Enterprises Inc. were charged last week with helping buyers from Sinaloa, Baja California and Sonora, Mexico, evade federal reporting requirements for large cash transactions.
"The principal object of the conspiracy was to … increase sales of planes at Stancil Enterprises Inc. by obtaining business from apparently criminal elements who wished to purchase planes with currency while evading all cash transaction reporting requirements," the complaint said.
Donald Heller, an attorney for Stancil, said his client didn't know the buyers and was not aware that the customers were involved in criminal activities.
Heller said he's working out a plea deal with the U.S. attorney's office that likely will include a deferred prosecution agreement.
Prosecutors also are seeking the forfeiture of more than $423,000 allegedly received from the airplane sales.
Federal law requires U.S. businesses and banks to file a currency transaction report anytime a person makes a cash purchase of $10,000 or more.
According to the government's complaint, Stancil and Stancil Enterprises helped buyers parcel payments totaling more than $428,000 into 57 different transactions of $9,500 or less during 2008 and 2009.
Many of the payments were made to separate Stancil Enterprises bank accounts and were deposited in branches in several different cities, prosecutors said.
The customers were not named in the complaint, but a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office later said the buyers were involved in drug trafficking.Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/03/4236005/placerville-airplane-broker-accused.html#storylink=cpy
 
Found this interesting picture on the webs.... :beer:
s-l1600-4-a.jpg
 
whitey45 said:
Looks like they are staging for the rubicon, great picture!
Click to expand...

Yep that was 1964 12th Jeepers Jamboree, the guy right in the middle of the Land Cruiser is Mark Smith, i hope some locals join in and might recognize some of the other people.
 
JohnnyC said:
stancil went into aircraft

Skywagons.com | Your Aircraft Sales Specialists

but... Jr... had ran into some issues it seems: http://www.garciniacambogiaplan.com/article/

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Placerville aircraft broker in a novel case involving the alleged sale of six planes to Mexican drug traffickers.
Joe Stancil, former owner of a Placerville Toyota dealership, and his company Stancil Enterprises Inc. were charged last week with helping buyers from Sinaloa, Baja California and Sonora, Mexico, evade federal reporting requirements for large cash transactions.
"The principal object of the conspiracy was to … increase sales of planes at Stancil Enterprises Inc. by obtaining business from apparently criminal elements who wished to purchase planes with currency while evading all cash transaction reporting requirements," the complaint said.
Donald Heller, an attorney for Stancil, said his client didn't know the buyers and was not aware that the customers were involved in criminal activities.
Heller said he's working out a plea deal with the U.S. attorney's office that likely will include a deferred prosecution agreement.
Prosecutors also are seeking the forfeiture of more than $423,000 allegedly received from the airplane sales.
Federal law requires U.S. businesses and banks to file a currency transaction report anytime a person makes a cash purchase of $10,000 or more.
According to the government's complaint, Stancil and Stancil Enterprises helped buyers parcel payments totaling more than $428,000 into 57 different transactions of $9,500 or less during 2008 and 2009.
Many of the payments were made to separate Stancil Enterprises bank accounts and were deposited in branches in several different cities, prosecutors said.
The customers were not named in the complaint, but a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office later said the buyers were involved in drug trafficking.Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/03/4236005/placerville-airplane-broker-accused.html#storylink=cpy
Click to expand...


Interesting story. What has always shocked me is a man in business is just that, a man in business. He is selling airplanes for a living. Then the Feds come in and blame him for what they should be doing. I understand it takes hard work to find the bad guys but to me , never blame the guy making a living. Actually, they should have paid in Gold , and today bitcoin and crypto currency will be used. Also , they did not "evade" the 10,000 requirement, Since they never paid over that , they did not need to report. Actually, they were within the law. I know this is off thread but I hate to hear about a good Toyota person being put in a corner.
 
1969FJ said:
Interesting story. What has always shocked me is a man in business is just that, a man in business. He is selling airplanes for a living. Then the Feds come in and blame him for what they should be doing. I understand it takes hard work to find the bad guys but to me , never blame the guy making a living. Actually, they should have paid in Gold , and today bitcoin and crypto currency will be used. Also , they did not "evade" the 10,000 requirement, Since they never paid over that , they did not need to report. Actually, they were within the law. I know this is off thread but I hate to hear about a good Toyota person being put in a corner.
Click to expand...


I was thinking about your comments, and while I get that they were good Toyota people, sounds like they were still money laundering dirty money that came from drugs...the fact they tried break it into smaller quantities to avoid detection implicates them.

Similarly (but even more off topic) Does this mean that the Toyota dealers knowingly selling to ISIS are good Toyota people?
 
daner said:
I was thinking about your comments, and while I get that they were good Toyota people, sounds like they were still money laundering dirty money that came from drugs...the fact they tried break it into smaller quantities to avoid detection implicates them.

Similarly (but even more off topic) Does this mean that the Toyota dealers knowingly selling to ISIS are good Toyota people?
Click to expand...


Great question. I also think like that. I see ISIS driving Toyotas, GMC, Fords, and the good ol USA armored vehicles ??? Somehow that seems worse to me than Mr. Stancil. What I tried to mention was maybe he did not know they were drug dealers. If I am selling something with a high price and the buyer said I want to pay in increments, I would work out a deal. The issue is I am selling a product and he is buying a product. It is not my job to police the buyer. That is why we have Law enforcement from local to FBI. If the buyer said he would pay 8K or whatever until payoff, fine. I got paid and he got his product.
I have no problem with the FEDS going after the dealers, but not the salesman. Reason is it is not his responsibility to police where and how the money is coming from. He is selling a product to make a living. Since the FEDS created this Demarcation line of 10,000 dollars reporting, all they did was realize a work around would be next.
I do not know whether Stancil was part of the drug cartel but somehow I believe the FEDS pressed on him hard because they were not able to properly catch these people on their own accord.

Do you ever wonder how ISIS keeps the USA tanks running ?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)

Share this page

Back
Top Bottom