RIP Bob Kelley

[silverscreenselect]

Longtime publisher of the Kelley Blue Book guide to used car prices. The publication was started by his uncle in 1926, and Kelley ran the company until he retired in 2000 and his son-in-law took over.

Age 96

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/business ... index.html

[Earl the Squirrel]

Fanny Fun Fact: When I was a car salesman, we used the NADA guide, which was yellow. But we still called it blue book value.

[BackInTex]

Fanny Fun Fact: When I was a car salesman, we used the NADA guide, which was yellow. But we still called it blue book value.

Probably Xeroxed some of those pages on the Konica copier, too. :

[Earl the Squirrel]

Fanny Fun Fact: When I was a car salesman, we used the NADA guide, which was yellow. But we still called it blue book value.

Probably Xeroxed some of those pages on the Konica copier, too. :

Who do you think I worked for, the Rolls Royce dealership? (Yes, we actually had one of those in town when I was a kid. Used to go just to look at the cars in the lot.) We used carbon paper just like all good Americans did BITD!