from; http://www.ohio.com/business/95713074.html (aug 2010) Founder Arthur Ray Fair, a World War I veteran, was a truck salesman whose territory was Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana in the 1930s. He moved his family to Akron in 1934, formed a partnership with two other men and opened a car dealership, Akron Motor Sales, at Arlington and Exchange, initially selling Studebaker, then Dodge and Plymouth.