Ted Britt Ford's Ties to Community Run Deep
Fairfax City car dealership is headed up by M. Gardner Britt Jr., son of founder; Ted Britt Ford first opened in Northern Virginia about 50 years ago.
Walking into the Ted Britt Ford dealership these days is like entering a Christmas workshop — all the cars are painted white, adorned with huge red bows as if shipped directly from the North Pole by Santa himself. Of course, the vehicles haven’t been made by Kris Kringle, but by the Ford Motor Company which is still headquartered in Dearborn, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. But the practice of dressing white cars with red ribbons during the holidays is a longtime tradition that is being carried out by a third generation of the Britt family that runs the dealership. “It’s just something that we’ve always done, to put red ribbons on the cars at Christmas,” said M. Gardner Britt III (or just “G3”) head of the Chantilly location, in interview last…
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craig martin
3:31 am on Friday, May 10, 2013
THIS DEALER TREATS VETERANS LIKE TRASH!! I had my ford F150 in for service in DEC 2012 this dealer scratched my wheels!! The service director Rob Teasdale called me a liar!!! When I spoke to the owner G3 He made it right so I decided to give them a second chance this past month but because I was called a LIAR before I decided to protect myself by taking pictures of my vehicle including my … more ›