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Description
As a teenager, he bought cars out of junkyards, rebuilt them and then sold them for profit. As a young man he worked for Cadillac and Ford and also walked the beat as a policeman in Lincoln Park, Mich., chasing criminals and investigating car accidents involving some of the primitive, unsafe vehicles of the 1930s, a job that would leave an indelible impression.