General Motors Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Michele Salta
April 15, 1923 - July 8, 2014 Michele "Mike" Fiore Salta, a visionary car dealer and entrepreneur who was one of the country's first "mega" car dealers and owned as many as 24 car dealerships simultaneously along the West Coast and Hawaii, died on July 8, 2014 at age 91, peacefully at his home in Indian Wells, Calif. Salta was brought into the world by midwife at the home of Giovanni and Marietta Saltalamacchia in Portland, Ore., on April 15, 1923. The youngest in a large family, Mike was...
