Bob Kelley has died at the age of 96.
If you’re wondering how much your car is worth, or how much to pay for that car you’re thinking of buying, there’s a good chance you’ll check KBB.com.That’s short for Kelley Blue Book , and it’s one of the longest-standing sources for used car values there is. A man who was instrumental in its rise to prominence, Bob Kelley , died on May 28 in Indian Wells, California, at the age of 96.
In 1995, Kelley Blue Book started a website, making its data easily accessible to the general public, not just industry insiders. Still, the book continued in publication every two months for several more years, said Vogelheim, because not everyone was using the Internet.“The nice thing about the new technology is you could get fresh values distributed more frequently and more specific in terms of your information,” he said, “but, you know, the book, if you dropped it, it’d still work.
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