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William "Bill" Adkins never dreamed he would one day be in the car business,
far less become the number one Corvette dealer in the entire
New York tri-state area.
How did all this happen to a Chicago teenager whose closest encounter with cars at the time was a game of counting the makes that went by?
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In this issue's Industry Focus, we set out to examine the challenges, success stories, best practices and opportunities for African-American professionals and business owners in the mammoth automotive industry. Here, too, we ran smack into entrepreneurship hip-hop style. Hip-hop has given us its own coterie of lifestyle entrepreneurs. And, mimicking their forays into publishing, fashion, arts and entertainment, and the food and beverage industries, these entrepreneurs have carved out a niche in the auto world with customized SUVs that are just as outrageous and eye-catching as the souped up low-riders or special edition Alfa Romeos and Maseratis that others covet.
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There is a new South in America. It is the South of CNN, of the Atlanta Olympics, of German carmakers in South Carolina. It is the South of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, neither of whom would have been elected president if not for the end of segregation. But across the South, much of its potential is locked up-literally.
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