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The Car Man used-car lot has been a fixture on West Broad Street in Henrico County for nearly five decades.

But Tuesday was its last day.

“The car business was good to us and gave me a lot of opportunities. It’s been a great business and we enjoyed it,” owner Victor Moes said. “But the car business is too hard and took too much time. It’s time to move on.”

His first The Car Man lot opened at West Broad Street and Pemberton Road in 1973. He moved a decade later to its current location at 7221 W. Broad St., about a mile from Interstate 64.

He figures he has sold about 15,000 vehicles during the past 47 years.

Moes, who turns 76 next week, surrendered in his dealer license on Tuesday to the state licensing board on the same day his insurance on the business ran out. He figured that was a good time to close down his business.

The used-car business, he said, increasingly has gotten more difficult to operate, even before the coronavirus pandemic hit. For instance, years ago, customers came to his lot with money in hand or financing from a bank or credit union.