Nation's last Mercury-only dealer will no longer sell new cars

Community Motor Co, Canonsburg, PA to remain open selling, servicing used vehicles

GM Joe Mastrangioli says new-car sales decline, operators' ages factors in decision

Says Ford exerted no pressure to leave, will buy back store's new cars

Of stand-alone Mercury dealerships, all but Community Motor gone by 2000

Community Motor Co sold Mercurys for 57 years

Decision to give up franchise followed sales decline, family illness

Dealership started in 1950 by Joe Mastrangioli Sr

Store will concentrate on used-car business, specializing in low-mileage program cars

"It seems like this is the time. The new-car business has declined so badly, and the competition from the foreign car manufacturers has been so great." -- Joe Mastrangioli, general manager, Community Motor Co, Canonsburg, PA

"We do work hard, and we've enjoyed it over the years. We're often tired, and we don't eat our meals on time, but it's just part of our lives." -- Mastrangioli

"At different times, through those 50 years that I've been here, they offered [the Lincoln franchise] to me and I turned it down, and then at times I asked for it and they turned me down. It just seems like we never got together on that." -- Mastrangioli