Nankivell Chevrolet Indianapolis Indiana

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Ok!

I dug out my notes from my last conversation with Morgan Nankivell, not much on the dealerships but...

- Nankivell = English origin, 'Nan'is Welsh meaning 'From', 'Kivell' is their equivalent of county, so the name literally meant From Kivell.

- Morgan owned the Shelbyville dealership from 1963 - 1980, his brother owned the Indy one for about the same period of time.

- The Indy site had plate frames with red lettering and INDIANAPOLIS, while the Shelbyville site had frames with black lettering and SHELBYVILLE

- Morgan's brother convinced Frank Huebler to move up from Florida, where he was working as an IRS agent, to be his office manager.

- He then sold the Indy dealership to Frank and himself moved 'back' to Florida (Marco Island) and ran a fishing business. He died in '88.

- Morgan sold the Shelbyville site in 1980 to another dealer from Edinburgh, IN who had sold his previous dealership in order to buy it from Morgan. The new owner wanted his son to be a dealer, but after a year he changed his mind. The son became a doctor, and the dealership was sold to an Oldsmobile dealer from Seifert, IN. This owner kept it for ~ a year, and then sold it to Frank Huebler. It is now the Firestone tire store.

- Frank Huebler has 4 sons, they each have their own dealership.

- Franklin Woodward Huebler was born in '23 in Jacksonville, FL. His sister Helen married into the Nankivell family. In '57 Frank and Jim Nankivell moved to Indianapolis and stared an Oldsmobile dealership, which they later sold in order to start Nankivell Chevrolet. In '71 Huebler it from Jim, and went into business with his 3 sons and was renamed Huebler Chevrolet. It was located at 3800 S. US 31, in '87 it moved to its current location at 8220 S. US 31. The Huebler Group now owns 12 dealerships in IN and one in FL. - Franklin Woodward Huebler died in 2005 at 82,

- Would like to find the salesperson for my car, his last name was JEKEL!