{"id":49267,"date":"2021-06-18T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49267"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:18:38","slug":"mr-huge-billy-fuccillo-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/06\/mr-huge-billy-fuccillo-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. HUGE Billy Fuccillo passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Billy Fuccillo, a \u201chuge\u201d car dealer and philanthropist, has died in his Florida home after months of his health declining,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/local\/huge-car-dealer-and-philanthropist-billy-fuccillo-has-died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported ABC affiliate WHAM.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Billy-Fuccillo-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Billy-Fuccillo-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Billy-Fuccillo-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Billy-Fuccillo-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Billy-Fuccillo.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuccillo, who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abc-7.com\/news\/business\/2020\/09\/11\/fuccillo-kia-locations-in-cape-coral-port-charlotte-to-be-sold-in-36-million-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previously owned two KIA dealerships in Cape Coral and Port Charlotte<\/a>, as well as in Upstate New York, died following a long battle with an illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Syracuse Auto Dealers Association confirmed Fuccillo\u2019s death on Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sadness that we advise you of the passing of former member and friend, Billy Fuccillo,\u201d wrote the Syracuse Auto Dealers Association in a note to members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuccillo was known for using the trademark saying \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be HUUUUGE,\u201d in his car dealership commercials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No further information on his passing was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Fuccillo, a \u201chuge\u201d car dealer and philanthropist, has died in his Florida home after months of his health declining,&nbsp;reported ABC affiliate WHAM. Fuccillo, who&nbsp;previously owned two KIA dealerships in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49269,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49267\/revisions\/49269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}