This Month: Automotive Recycling / Undercar Maintenance & Repair
June: Performance & Motorsports / Parts and Service for Imports
Oakland-Karl Despretter, owner of Independent Factory Automotive, left his job as a service director for a dealership and opened his own shop three years ago, he said. Despretter, 44, said he believed he could give better customer service on his own, putting to practice what he had learned during a 20-year career as a technician and service manager for several local dealerships.
Antelope, Calif.-With more than 90 years of industry experience between the three of them, you might say dismantling is in the Duncan family's blood. With three generations in the automotive recycling business--as owners and operators of J&W Auto Wreckers, a Jeep and AMC auto recycler in Antelope -- Jack, Mark, and Neil Duncan represent the past, present, and future of vehicle dismantling.
