ObituariesObituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 7, 2013 Information about Oklahoma City Dodge dealer Lynn Hickey.... Read More »
Lynn Hickey, former Oklahoma City Dodge dealer, dies 10:36 am U.S. ET | Dec. 28, 2012 Lynn Hickey, former owner of Lynn Hickey Dodge in Oklahoma City, died Dec. 14. He was 74. Hickey started his automotive career washing cars at a Ford dealership. In 1970, he opened the Dodge store.... Read More »
Obituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | Dec. 3, 2012 Information about Don Ackerman, the former owner of Gaudin Ford in Las Vegas, and Zig Ziglar, a motivational speaker who inspired world leaders and business owners including auto dealers.... Read More »
Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker to dealers, dies 3:53 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 30, 2012 Zig Ziglar, a motivational speaker who inspired world leaders and business owners, including auto dealers, died Wednesday in Texas. He was 86. Ziglar spoke at the 75th annual National Automobile Dealers Association convention in 1992.... Read More »
Dealer Cecil Van Tuyl dies at 85 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 26, 2012 Cecil Van Tuyl, patriarch of the nation's largest independently owned auto dealership group, died Nov. 20 at age 85.... Read More »
Cecil Van Tuyl, patriarch of largest independent dealership group, dies 12:55 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 21, 2012  Cecil Van Tuyl, the patriarch of the nation's largest independently-owned auto dealership group, died Tuesday at age 85.... Read More »
Obituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 19, 2012 Information about Tom Burns, former executive director of administration and planning for Ford Motor Co.'s styling and design center.... Read More »
Ford dealer Don Ackerman dies at 86 2:55 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 12, 2012 Don Ackerman, the former owner of Gaudin Ford in Las Vegas, died Oct. 22. He was 86.... Read More »
Obituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 12, 2012 Information about Rusty Restuccia, a 33-year veteran of Ford Motor Co. and former head of the company's minority dealer program.... Read More »
Rusty Restuccia, who ran Ford’s minority dealer program, dies at 77 2:15 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 7, 2012 ... Read More »
Obituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 29, 2012 Information about Archie Huebner, founder and longtime owner of Huebner Chevrolet in Carrollton, Ohio, and Robb Mahr, a longtime radio and TV automotive reporter in southeast Michigan.... Read More »
Obituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 22, 2012 Information about Stanford Ovshinsky, an inventor who is credited with developing the nickel-metal hydride battery.... Read More »
Obituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 8, 2012 Information about Carl Rotman, a longtime Lincoln-Mercury-GMC dealer in Iowa.... Read More »
Obituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 1, 2012 Dan Hayes, who led the Detroit Auto Dealers Association for many years and helped transform the Detroit auto show into the North American International Auto Show, died Sept. 22.... Read More »
Obituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 24, 2012 Information about Calvin Leroy Smith, who was CFO at Roswell Jeep-Eagle in Roswell, Ga., for many years, and Jeffrey Wooley, a director of Asbury Automotive Group.... Read More »
Obituary 12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 17, 2012 Information about longtime truck manufacturing executive Gordon Clark, who played major sales roles at Freightliner and Detroit Diesel in the 1980s and 1990s.... Read More »
Ulrich Fuehrer dies at 68; was pioneer in accident research in Germany 12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 10, 2012 Ulrich Fuehrer, a pioneer in accident research in Germany, died Aug. 21. He was 68.... Read More »
A. Gordon Clark, retired trucking executive, dies at 90 2:12 pm U.S. ET | Sept. 5, 2012 Longtime truck manufacturing executive A. Gordon Clark, who played major sales roles at Freightliner and Detroit Diesel in the 1980s and 1990s, died Sept. 2. He was 90.... Read More »
Frank Shaver, a second-generation Pontiac dealer in Indiana, dies at 99 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug. 13, 2012 Frank Shaver, a second-generation Pontiac dealer in Indiana, died July 30. He was 99.... Read More »
Frank Shaver, second-generation Pontiac dealer in Indiana, dies 2:30 pm U.S. ET | Aug. 10, 2012 Frank Shaver, a second-generation Pontiac dealer in Indiana, died July 30. He was 99.... Read More »
Obituary 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug. 6, 2012 Information about Phoenix car dealer Bert Pitre.... Read More »
Obituaries 12:01 am U.S. ET | July 30, 2012 Information about James Medeiros Sr., who owned Peabody Chrysler-Jeep Automotive Sales in Peabody, Mass., and Ed Morse, founder of a Florida dealership group.... Read More »
James Medeiros Sr., Chrysler-Jeep dealer in Mass., dead at 91 5:29 pm U.S. ET | July 26, 2012 James Medeiros Sr., who owned Peabody Chrysler-Jeep Automotive Sales in Peabody, Mass., for nearly three decades, died June 13 in Danvers, Mass. He was 91.... Read More »
Bert Pitre, longtime Michigan, Arizona dealer for GM, dies at 79 4:42 pm U.S. ET | July 26, 2012 Bert Pitre, founder of Pitre Automotive Group, died July 10 in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 79. After graduating from General Motors Institute in Flint, Mich., in the 1950s, Pitre went to work at a Buick-Cadillac dealership in Saginaw, Mich. In the 1960s he bought a Chevrolet-Cadillac dealership in Greenville, Mich. In 1973, he sold it and moved to Scottsdale to open a Buick dealership.... Read More »
Obituary 12:01 am U.S. ET | July 16, 2012 Information about George Dexter, 88, a multifranchise dealer in California's Marin County.... Read More »
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