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What was Billy Fuccillo’s cause of death?
"You think she has a tan? Well I'm getting colored too!"
It's said that often-times there is a fine line between vulgarity and hilarity. Billy Fuccillo arrived in Florida from upstate New York late in his life, but like everything he did, Billy took on car sales in the Sunshine State with full-on bravado and a bull in a china shop confidence. On television Fuccillo looked like an Italian version of Rodney Dangerfield, his seemingly unscripted car commercials crossing into territory that even fools dared not tread.
For anyone who watched television in either Florida or upstate New York there was no one quite like Billy Fuccillo. There were times when he offended Mothers Against Drunk Driving with his off-the-cuff jokes about drinking. On his dealership award cruises, Billy filmed some of his most memorable TV commercials with his television sidekick, Caroline Renfro. "Hey, I shoulda known you'd be at the bar the first thing in the morning." And then there was Fuccillo's coup de grace car commercial where he demonstrated an uncanny ability to unify such desparate groups as prudish conservative evangelicals with progressive African-Americans. All it took was Billy with a nude statue up at the cruise ship pool, appearing to squeeze its left breast while claiming to alter his own genetic predisposition.
But Billy's philanthropic largesse, which never earned him the media visibility he deserved, reached causes far beyond the geographic boundaries of his car dealerships. Moreover, in every article and social media thread there isn't a single negative comment about Fuccillo from any of his employees, past or present. And in this day and age that's a huge accomplishment indeed.
Billy Fuccillo passed away this week in his Sarasota home. Though his age was initially reported as 64, it has been corrected to 65.
"You think she has a tan? Well I'm getting colored too!"
It's said that often-times there is a fine line between vulgarity and hilarity. Billy Fuccillo arrived in Florida from upstate New York late in his life, but like everything he did, Billy took on car sales in the Sunshine State with full-on bravado and a bull in a china shop confidence. On television Fuccillo looked like an Italian version of Rodney Dangerfield, his seemingly unscripted car commercials crossing into territory that even fools dared not tread.
For anyone who watched television in either Florida or upstate New York there was no one quite like Billy Fuccillo. There were times when he offended Mothers Against Drunk Driving with his off-the-cuff jokes about drinking. On his dealership award cruises, Billy filmed some of his most memorable TV commercials with his television sidekick, Caroline Renfro. "Hey, I shoulda known you'd be at the bar the first thing in the morning." And then there was Fuccillo's coup de grace car commercial where he demonstrated an uncanny ability to unify such desparate groups as prudish conservative evangelicals with progressive African-Americans. All it took was Billy with a nude statue up at the cruise ship pool, appearing to squeeze its left breast while claiming to alter his own genetic predisposition.
But Billy's philanthropic largesse, which never earned him the media visibility he deserved, reached causes far beyond the geographic boundaries of his car dealerships. Moreover, in every article and social media thread there isn't a single negative comment about Fuccillo from any of his employees, past or present. And in this day and age that's a huge accomplishment indeed.
Billy Fuccillo passed away this week in his Sarasota home. Though his age was initially reported as 64, it has been corrected to 65.
