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The real recession — the Great Depression — was just a few years removed from Jack Urfer's mind when he made his first dollar having anything to do with automotive engines.

It was the mid-1930s in rural Kansas. Urfer, about 10 years old, fixed up a broken down tractor on his family's farm. He sold it to a neighbor for $30.

Urfer is once again trying to make a go during a difficult economic period in the auto industry — an industry he has been in for 50 years.