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Detroit Auto Dealer, Riverside Ford Sales, Honored by TIME Magazine

8 March 1999

Detroit Auto Dealer, Riverside Ford Sales, Honored by TIME Magazine; Nathan G. Conyers Receives 1999 Award

    DETROIT, March 8 -- Nathan G. Conyers, president of Riverside
Ford Sales, was recently named a recipient of the 1999 TIME Magazine Quality
Dealer Award (TMQDA).  The announcement was made by Jack Haire, publisher of
TIME magazine and Bryan Kinnamon, vice president original equipment, North
American Tires at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, a co-sponsor of the
award, during the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) convention in
San Francisco, in February.
    Conyers was one of only 63 dealers, from more than 20,500 nationwide,
nominated for the 30th annual award.  Sponsored by TIME Magazine in
association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA, the TMQDA program
recognizes outstanding new car dealers for exceptional performance in their
dealerships and distinguished community service.
    Finalists are selected by a panel of faculty members from the University
of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration.  Acknowledging the
University's participation, TIME Magazine makes an annual grant of scholarship
funds to the Michigan Business School in the names of TIME, Goodyear, NADA and
all TMQDA recipients.
    A native of Detroit, MI, Conyers was raised, educated and lives in the
city of Detroit.  Growing up, his family stressed the importance of having a
family business.  Although Conyers was successful in his ten years in private
practice with his prestigious law firm, he decided to leave the practice to
make his family's dream of a family-owned business a reality.  Conyers was
nominated to receive the 30th annual TMQDA by A. Barry McGuire of the Michigan
Auto Dealers Association, and National Association of the Minority Auto
Dealers.
    Conyers is active in his community where he is a NAACP life member and a
Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce member, along with many other civic
affiliations.  He is also a Ford Lincoln Mercury Minority Dealer Association
founding member, and has worked with the Coleman A. Young Foundation mentor
program.
    A graduate of Wayne State University with a juris doctorate degree in law,
Conyers lives in Detroit with his wife Diana.  They have five children and
eight grandchildren.