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Show Page 16 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, July 19, 2007 Gene Harvey celebrates golden anniversary Barbara Christiansen S;iy the name ( rt-nc lliirvey and most people will automatically automati-cally say Chevrolet While the automobile dealership is well known for its name, there really re-ally is a erson named (iene Harvey, who started the company com-pany and stands behind it. Highland resident Harvey has sUxxl by the dealership lor fVl years now and recently celebrated cel-ebrated his golden anniversary with stall and some customers. Most M-ople would consider the H7 -year-old eligible to re-tiie. re-tiie. but that's not in the plans With a linn handshake and ready smile, Harvey still works at the dealership part I mie. His son Ron is the official dealer now, but One Harvey still maintains contact with each department I check with the managers, see bow the sales are going and go to the shop,'' he said "I kind ol make sure it runs I have to pretty well Ix1 in all of it Sales takes the most lime, though." t )ne ol the things he has leen most pleased with through the years has I wen the reputation the firm has developed devel-oped for Ix ing honest and fair. I he reputation and philosophy philoso-phy have extended to the em- .. -VVX V V.I J I ''ft MARIO RUIZDaily Herald 87-year-old Gene Harvey sits in u 201)7 Equinox ut Gene Harvey Chevrolet in American Fork. I forvey has been selling Chevrolet vehicles for 50 years. ployees as well. who have been here over 30 them fairly and are concerned ."We are like a family," liar- years, six more than 25 and about their well-being." vey said "We have two people five more than 20. 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"I have never heard him cuss in 32 years," he said. "I have seen him upset, but he still never nev-er reduced himself to cussing. He is an inspiring leader. You don't work for him as much for the wage as you don't want to disappoint him. It has been wonderful working for him. He is a good communicator and an even better listener." Finance manager Ken Christofferson agreed. "He is as nice as he looks," he said. I have never worked for a more truly genuine person. per-son. He is almost like a father figure to me. He is very loving and caring and a wonderful family man." Liz Gaudia has been with the company 15 years. "He is one of the reasons I have stayed her as long as I have," she said. "He does a lot of things behind the scenes anonymously like helping out families. He doesn't want accolades." ac-colades." Helping people is what Harvey Har-vey enjoys the most about the business. "One of the best things is that you deal with the people and make a lot of friends," he said. "For a lot of people this is one of the biggest purchases they make. It is satisfying to help them. It is also exciting to see the new models and changes. The reason I am still here is that I enjoy the business so much that I would really miss it." He has served as president of the Chamber of Commerce and has belonged to the Ki-wanis Ki-wanis and Jaycees Clubs. He enjoys golfing and still is active in the sport. Harvey has been involved with selling vehicles longer than his 50 years he recently marked. "I actually started out selling Fords," he said. In 1949 he started selling Fords at Alpine Motor Company, then became the Ford dealer in 1954. In 1957, he bought into the Chevrolet dealership, Timpanogos Motor Company. "I built this place in 1965," he said of the dealership at its current cur-rent location on 500 East. He has seen many changes in the business since he started. "The number of cars is a big difference," he said. "We used to have three or four models, in the deluxe and standard versions, plus half and three-quarter three-quarter ton trucks. We used to stock 25 to 30 vehicles. Now we stock 200 and another 100 in used." Another change is the proportion pro-portion of vehicle styles. "Seventy-five percent of our sales are trucks, including includ-ing SUVs like Suburbans and Tahoes," he said. "Twenty-five percent are cars. That is about exactly the opposite of a few years back. It used to be farmers farm-ers and sheepherders who bought trucks." The vehicles themselves have changed, too. "The trucks drive like a car, ride nice and have nice interiors," interi-ors," Harvey said. He said people sometimes say they wish they made vehicles ve-hicles like they used to, but Harvey disagrees. "It used to be that tires had to be replaced around 15,000 miles," he said. "Now tires run about 50,000 miles and cars are good for abut 150,000 miles. 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