Staff File PhotoHerb Adcox, who began selling cars in 1949, said he never saw the auto business slide as it did during the last recession. Adcox died Thursday at 86.Longtime Chattanooga auto dealer Herb Adcox died today.
Adcox, 86, who won Time Magazine's dealer of the year award in 1974, died after a brief illness, according to the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory and Florist.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Adcox started selling Pontiacs in 1949. He moved from Oak Ridge, Tenn., to Chattanooga in 1955, then from a site on South Broad Street to Lee Highway in 1968, where he remained until he shut down the dealership in 2013.
In 1990, 1991 and 1992, he was the No. 1 volume seller of Chevrolet S10 pickups in the country. He toured the nation, offering sales seminars to dealers on how to sell that many trucks and still make a profit.
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