Autotechniks Import Service, Republic

We've moved! Autotechniks Import Service is excited to announce that we've moved to a newer, larger facility to better serve our amazing customers. Our new ad...dress is 215 Laney Lane... Caticorner to our previous building. We're currently working on our signage, but we're % open and taking as many appointments as possible. We appreciate all of you, and any referrals you can send to us. Feel free to call or stop by and check out the new place! See more

Young people who don't want to go to college; listen up. I have some free advice for you and I would like to preface it with saying that I have twelve years of... post-high school education: Yesterday I paid one blue collar worker to replace my dryer belt and both drum support rollers. I also paid my auto mechanic, another blue collar worker, to replace the fly wheel in my Volkswagen Eurovan (the cracked flywheel is in the photo... and yes, I know it's called a drive disc in an automatic VW, not a flywheel). Neither of these were cheap repairs. The one man made $65 an hour plus parts; my auto mechanic charges $95 an hour--and the flywheel repair was a six hour project! So here's the advice: If you don't know whether you want to go to college and you feel pressured to spend $30,000 a year to figure out "what you want to be," don't. Don't do it. Figure out what you want to be while working with dirty hands. Apprentice under a mechanic; plumber; electrician; carpenter, etc. Blue collar work is good work. Blue collar work honors God. Blue collar work is dignified work that built this great nation. And the secret that no one is telling you: they make really good money. So you can make money while trying to figure out what "you want to be" or you can spend $30,000 a year trying to figure out how you want to make money. You see the problem with that? As I left my mechanic today I said, "Greg, thank you so much for what you do. I love seeing your buisness succeed; I am glad that so many people are paying you, even though I wish I wasn't." Greg laughed and said, "You know everyone used to tell me that I needed to go to college. And I thought to myself, 'Why don't we each just do what we are called to do.'" That's great advice. Do what you are called to do. Vocation. I am all for college education; but more importantly, I am all for vocation (which means calling). Greg's a smart guy (and getting pretty wealthy too).

Young people who don't want to go to college; listen up. I have some free advice for you and I would like to preface it with saying that I have twelve years of... post-high school education: Yesterday I paid one blue collar worker to replace my dryer belt and both drum support rollers. I also paid my auto mechanic, another blue collar worker, to replace the fly wheel in my Volkswagen Eurovan (the cracked flywheel is in the photo... and yes, I know it's called a drive disc in an automatic VW, not a flywheel). Neither of these were cheap repairs. The one man made $65 an hour plus parts; my auto mechanic charges $95 an hour--and the flywheel repair was a six hour project! So here's the advice: If you don't know whether you want to go to college and you feel pressured to spend $30,000 a year to figure out "what you want to be," don't. Don't do it. Figure out what you want to be while working with dirty hands. Apprentice under a mechanic; plumber; electrician; carpenter, etc. Blue collar work is good work. Blue collar work honors God. Blue collar work is dignified work that built this great nation. And the secret that no one is telling you: they make really good money. So you can make money while trying to figure out what "you want to be" or you can spend $30,000 a year trying to figure out how you want to make money. You see the problem with that? As I left my mechanic today I said, "Greg, thank you so much for what you do. I love seeing your buisness succeed; I am glad that so many people are paying you, even though I wish I wasn't." Greg laughed and said, "You know everyone used to tell me that I needed to go to college. And I thought to myself, 'Why don't we each just do what we are called to do.'" That's great advice. Do what you are called to do. Vocation. I am all for college education; but more importantly, I am all for vocation (which means calling). Greg's a smart guy (and getting pretty wealthy too).

In the local enthusiast press! Thanks, Skip!

Apparently I had a hitchhiker this morning on the way to the shop!

Career day at McCullough Elementary! Proud to reinvest in our kids by taking time to share my little corner of the world. :)

I have a very good customer selling his 2003 Mercedes Benz C240. Approximately 109k miles. New Pirelli tires, New brakes. VERY clean and solid car. Asking $5,250. PM if interested.