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Staff Writer
, MEBANE There aren't any saints out
here. The closest to sainthood around here
might be some old bachelor Methodist
preacher or kindly grey-headed elementary
school teacher, but they're special types and
they'd be out to the country if they're around
here at all.
Because here there are just a lot of regular
folks. Good old boys crowd the downtown,
wheeling their watermelon stomachs and
big-kneed gals around in their '75 Caprice
Chevrolets. and giggly secretaries drive
between work and home in their Vegas, and
the young people, why they're about as
indistinguishable as their elders, with fluffed
and curled hair and K -Mart jeans, driving
used Malibus.
Old CM. Ray is no saint. "Don't go
calling me a saint because I'm not. And don't
go telling anyone I'm a saint either."
So people call hihi a workhorse because
that comes a lot closer to describing the real
man who owns Melville Chevrolet and has
been selling cars since 1923. He's sold a lot of
cars to the farmers arid young folk and the
secretaries, and yes, trucks with gun racks to
the good old boys, and Caprices to them to
wheel their darlings around town in. Most
everybody knows him.
He saw his first automobile when he was
about seven or eight years old, back in 1905
or '06, as a farm boy in the Alexander
Wilson community not far from here.
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back then," he says. "We'd hear it and go
running down to the road to see. me and my
friends."
They were sure damn funny things. They'd
get stuck in the ditches along the dirt roads
from Hillsborough to Mebane. and
somebody would have to get out and go get a
farmer to bring a team of horses to pull them
out. Lots of times you'd see cars being pulled
by horses.
By 1917. though, old CM. was driving a
T-M odel on the same H illsborough-M ebane .
road which he'd go out courting on Saturday
night. His brother-in-law had taught him
how to drive and would let him sometimes
borrow the car. He never figured he'd wind
up selling the things for a living.
But come 1923 he needed a job. He tried to
get through school at Carolina but couldn't
make it a combination of poverty and a
thick head that wouldn't take to learning, as
he tells it now.
1 needed a job and my cousin in
Burlington told me about a job in Mebane
selling Chevrolets," he says. That was in
1923 that I drifted into the car business.
April 5. 1 was 25 years old."
"It was just right for me." he says. "1 just
figured 1 could sell some so I went out and
sold 'em. Did well with it. Figured that was
my calling."
During the next seven years he worked for
Ford twice. I repented though," he says,
and in 1932 he and three other salesmen went
into business for themselves.
Him and Dr. Willie Goley, and
Alexander-Wilson High principal George
Robbins bought a Chevrolet dealership in
Mebane.
Mr. Robin and Dr. James wanted to call
the place Will-Rob-Ray Chevrolet, butC.M.
didn't like it. "They wanted to put the names
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together. No, no. 1 liked Melville. We're in
the Melville township here and there b a
dairy in Burlington named Melville Dairies
so that's what we decided to call it. Melville
Chevrolet"
So Melville Chevrolet was born, right in
the midst of the Great Depression, with
CM. running the showroom. CM., who
never really had any money and now he was
married and his wife had twins and a son was
on the way. He worked and worked.
His wife Annie went to work in a mill
office to keep them going. He knows he
never would have made it without her. Her
and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"Our great president Franklin D.
Roosevelt pulled me through. He pulled us
all through. I've always thought since he died
that we ought to dig him up and apologize to
him for the way we treated him."
CM. thought he'd go broke in 1938.
things were so bad. But somehow he was
saved by 1940. He did it by being friendly
with his people and working hard.
"During the early days the cars were cheap
but the work hard. I'd sell a car for $326 and
deliver it full of gas. Some farmer would buy
a T-M odel and I'd go out to deliver it and
he'd be building a shed for it. He'd tell me to
take it back until he was ready for it. He had
to get that old shed built first."
The '40s and '50s were good years for C. M .
He did good enough to send his two
daughters to school and buy two new
buildings for his business. The credit could
go to honesty and clean living, because he
certainly held to those virtues.
Tve always taught my salesmen, if you
talk to the people tell them the truth. Don't
tell them everything. But if they ask you
about something tell them the truth. Lies are
hard to back out of.
He used to smoke cigarettes during the
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early days when the pressure to survive
weighed on him. but he gave it up when he
got heart flutters. As for drink . . ."You
could put all the liquor I've had in a quart
bottle and it'd still be half empty. I had a little
beer before World War II but it gave me the
shivers. I just don't like the stuff."
He almost won a trip to Europe in 1959
because he sold so many new cars. He came
in second place, though, when some dealer
threw in some sales at the last minute he'd
been holding back to make the contest
exciting.
But in 1965 he won a trip to Jamaica and
went. He and Annie were down there for a
few days. He was "surrounded by blacks
down there and he couldn't understand what
they were saying most of the time and they
couldn't understand what he was saying, so
the trip was confusing for him. He liked the
trip but doesn't want to go back. In Mebane
at least he can understand the language.
CM. doesn't work much anymore. He
comes to the showroom every morning at
nine and leaves about noon to go home for
lunch and a nap. But there's no doubt he still
belongs there. People know him and still
come there to buy because he's there. He's
the Mebane auto salesman, one of the
original workhorses pushing cars.
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