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    Roy Abernethy

    Nov 09, 2019 2 minutes
    BY DAVID CONWILL
    PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION

    smoke big cigars. Like Lee Iaccoca, Roy Abernethy came from sales. Also like Iaccoca, he was trained as an engineer — taking night classes, at the age of 20, at the Carnegie Institute of Technology while working as an apprentice mechanic at a Packard dealer. That dealer was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 45

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