Flinty-Eyed Players at GM.(Column)

Byline: Kevin A. Wilson Driving a Cadillac CTS-V to Flint, Michigan, to act as a judge at the Kettering University Firebirds Car Club show put me in a General Motors frame of mind. Two weeks later, driving a new Pontiac GTO to Ypsilanti to judge at the Orphan Car Show put me back aboard that train of thought.

KU was named for Charles F. Kettering (aka "Boss Ket''), of course, famed as inventor of the starter motor and founder of GM's expansive Research department. His is the best possible name from GM history for a university you might recognize under its old handle of ...

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