SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ASCCA has announced its Top Tech Award winner: David Lemmer of Acur-it Import Service in Rohnert Park, owned by ASCCA member William Trbovich. Lemmer was selected from candidates in California based on his outstanding performance on ASE tests in the last year. Lemmer will be honored in front of the ASE Board of Directors, selected ASE staff, and company sponsors at its meeting on Nov. 19 in San Diego.
Irvine-based Fisker Automotive Inc. is moving its headquarters across Irvine. The company, a maker of environmentally friendly luxury sports cars, plans to offer its upscale hybrid cars in late 2009 for an estimated $80,000. Fisker Automotive is a venture of Newport Beach-based Fisker Coachbuild LLC and Irvine-based Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc.
American Honda Motor Co. Inc. has announced that its second FCX Clarity customer, Jamie Lee Curtis, took delivery of the vehicle on July 31. Curtis and husband Christopher Guest are the second of approximately 200 customers who will begin leasing the vehicle in the United States and Japan over the next three years. "I really wasn't expecting it to be so luxurious," Curtis said. "It's luxurious, luxurious, luxurious! I love the interior layout, design, and access to controls. It is user-friendly and very modern." The FCX Clarity is a next-generation, hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle. Propelled by an electric motor that runs on electricity generated in the fuel cell, the vehicle's only byproducts are heat and water, and its fuel efficiency is three times that of a modern gasoline-powered automobile. Power 
Honda in Costa Mesa is one of three dealers in the nation leasing the car.
Bewley Allen Cadillac in Alhambra has earned an award for highest Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) for all volume Cadillac dealerships in the United States for 2007. The award signifies that the employees of Bewley Allen Cadillac did the best job at customer satisfaction compared to all other volume GM dealerships.
Rusnak Volvo Pasadena presented "The Art of Fun-Raising" at Color Me Mine in Montrose, benefiting Children's Hospital Los Angeles Injury Prevention Research and Training Center. Guests who donated $50 to Children's Hospital Los Angeles were able to choose a $25 ceramic keepsake to design from Color Me Mine. About 80 people attended the event and 42, half of them children, took part in the ceramic painting. The event raised more than $5,000.
NAPA Auto Parts, the Official Auto Parts Store of the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association, awarded Santa Rosa resident Walt Leatherman its NAPA Trick Truck award at the 22nd West Coast Nationals 
held in Pleasanton for his 1934 Ford pickup. The Ford rebuild was an 18-month-long project for him and his son. The formerly trashed, rusted, and caved-in shell was rebuilt into its present state, with a 2,366 CC hand-built engine under the hood and NAPA parts running the electrical system.
LKQ Corp. has announced an agreement to acquire Pick-Your-Part Auto Wrecking, an auto recycler with nine recycling locations in California that generated $114.1 million of revenue in the year ended Dec. 31, 2007. "This acquisition will provide us with a new market entry into the California retail-oriented recycled-parts market and additional capacity to grow our Southern California wholesale recycling business," said Joe Holsten, president and chief executive officer.
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