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Dealer Steve Kalafer founded the Somerset Patriots, now a Yankees Double-A affiliate.
In 1976 in Frenchtown, N.J., 26-year-old Steve Kalafer opened a Ford dealership inside a Mobil gas station. He had seven employees, two gas pumps, one display vehicle and no office.
His son Joshua Kalafer told
Automotive News that even when the business expanded to eight stores selling 16 brands, his father s open-door policy from those early days stayed in place. He knew everyone by name every technician, every lot attendant, every salesperson, every service adviser, every manager, Joshua Kalafer said. He either sat in a desk on the showroom floor by the coffee maker or in a small office with no door. That was something he was famous for in our little part of the world.