Twin Motors mainstay retiring

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January 5, 2013 - 12:00 AM

“I always tried to do my best,” said Ralph Johnson Jr., who has  spent the last 50 years repairing dented and damaged cars in Iola.
Twin Motors is closing its body shop, “just as soon as we get it all cleaned out,” Johnson, 68, said Thursday afternoon.
He has been fixture at the corner of Miller and State streets since Dale Wichman moved his Ford dealership there from 207 S. Jefferson Ave. in the mid-1960s.
“I remember when there wasn’t a building here,” Johnson said of Twin Motors. “I helped…

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