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39 years later, LI family's GM dealership keeps going

George Nesenger remembers looking north on Route 112 from Main Street in Patchogue one bleak winter day in 1970 and not seeing a single car.

"What in God's name did I do?" he recalls thinking.

What he had done a few days earlier was buy a Chevrolet dealership nearby. He wondered that January day whether he would have enough customers to support it.

He needn't have worried -...

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