Art Carey

PHILADELPHIA -- Bob Grubb's father was a machinist who loved boating and fishing. In 1940, he bought one of the first Mercury outboard motors. The next year, he bought another to sell to a friend. By 1946, he had become a Mercury dealer, running the business from the basement of the family home in Spring City, Pa. For many years, he hauled new motors home from a Philadelphia distributor in the back of the family Nash.