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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

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.

Earl the Squirrel wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 06, 2024 4:35 pm

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. :

BackInTex wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 07, 2024 9:19 am

Earl the Squirrel wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 06, 2024 4:35 pm

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!