Iowa is having a brisk fall in auto retail buy-sell activity with two recent sales encompassing a dozen stores in and near the state capital.
One of the transactions involved the sale of the 11-store Willis Automotive group from father to son.
The group, founded as a Cadillac-Oldsmobile store in 1947 in Des Moines by Charles Betts Sr., was bought out by longtime employee Rich Willis in 2000…