Front view of the grill and headlights, with all the badges…..Billy Durant, started the Durant motor company, He rescued a bankrupt Buick Motor Company and turned it into the largest company in the world,   General Motors. After losing GM, he started Chevrolet and in a brilliant stock manipulation, regained control of General Motors. Five years later, he lost control of GM a second time. Broke, he went to Wall Street where he amassed a fortune. William Crapo Durant, a carriage maker from Flint, Michigan is one of the greatest entrepreneurs in American history…..WIKIPEDIA.