Kacy's Deluxe

Kenneth (Kacy) Calbeck was a Chrysler and Plymouth Dealer for 40 years and he was a member of the Nappanee Auto Dealers. He had Kacy’s Deluxe Motor Sales and Kacy’s Sinclair Service, which had a gas pump and was known from coast to coast.

In 1922, Kacy was appointed as the manager of the Consumer’s gasoline and service station. He was later the manager of Stuckman’s Service Station in 1924. In 1928, he became associated with J.D. Rapp in a Pontiac agency and he served as the manager.

When Chrysler created the DeSoto, he leased the front part of J.D. Rapp’s and rented the display space in the garage for showing the new line of cars and had taken over the front part of the building, and controlled the gas and oil part of the business.