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In 1968, with a A$610 investment by him and his then-fiancée Pip, [8] [12]: 203 Smith founded Dick Smith Car Radios, a small taxi radio repair business in the Sydney suburb of Neutral Bay, New South Wales, then later expanded into the car radio business at Gore Hill, naming himself the "Car-Radio 'Nut ' ". [13]
Crunch time at Dick Smith's. Car dealerships are feeling the crunch, too. At Dick Smith Auto Sales on Mike Padgett Highway, owner Bobbie Smith felt the post-Helene vehicle pinch from two perspectives.
Smith began promoting stock-car events as a 17-year-old in Midland, North Carolina, in the middle of a cornfield he nicknamed the "Dust Bowl". [2] In 1949, Smith took over the National Stock Car Racing Association (NSCRA), a league that had formed a year earlier in 1948 and was one of several fledgling stock-car sanctioning bodies that were direct competitors to NASCAR, which had been founded ...
Sonic Automotive was launched as a public company in November 1997 by O Bruton Smith. At the time, the company had 20 stores, representing 15 brands and several hundred employees. [4] The Smith family holds over 30% of the total shares outstanding but has over 80% of the voting power [5] because of a dual-class structure with Super-voting stock.
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The following are a few of the notable figures that passed away in 2007: Helen Walton, the widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, died in April at the age of 87. The first Wal-Mart was opened in ...
This page is a complete listing of all racers that have raced in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup and previously named Cup series, Busch Series, Craftsman Truck Series, and IROC.Note: IROC is outside the bounds of the NASCAR WikiProject, and as such, IROC only drivers do not belong as part of this list.
Brian Smith, President and CEO of the Tuskegee Airmen Historic Museum, stands for a photo on a T6 Texan in a hanger at the Coleman A. Young International Airport in Detroit on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.