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David Godsey
David Godsey, owner of A+ Auto Body in Georgetown, Kentucky, has always loved cars. Even as a boy, he was fascinated and wanted to know everything about them. His entire career has been in the automotive industry – from manufacturing and quality control at Toyota to sales and repair. Now, thirty years later, he has realized a career-long goal of being able use his broad-based knowledge to help people one-on-one with their cars. Come experience the difference this dedication makes.
Article from Lexington Herald Leader – Summer 2009
“When customers of A+ Auto Body drop vehicles off for repairs, many of them, frowning over the possibility of receiving more bad news, expect the worst as they wait for estimates repairing crushed grilles, dimpled doors, dangling fenders, chips and dents. On the trip inside to the shop, frowns disappear and foot traffic slows, as customers are drawn to the big, shiny, really shiny, purple farm truck parked nearby. The story behind the truck’s past and its renewed future is a reminder some auto body mechanics are trained vintage restoration specialists, as well, and if A+ can do that to a farm truck, maybe a trip to the body shop is not so bad, after all.
Over a year ago, Charlie Kendall, disc jockey at radio station B-92, (Classic Hits), finished a straight, original restoration of one truck, when bids opened for a “1953, five-window classic farm truck, a carry-the-corn farm truck”, said Kendall, who put in the winning bid for it on E-Bay. Sometime during Kendall’s 650 mile road trip bringing the truck home, “It only failed once,” Kendall chuckled, “the headlights quit and I spent an extra night over, continued driving the next day,” he decided this truck carried enough corn, should be reincarnated as a “hot rod”. A+ body shop manager, Elmer Taylor, with thirty years of body shop experience, accepted the challenge, and the painstaking, year-long “frame-off” restoration began.
A+ owner David Godsey opened the shop in Lane’s Run business park six months ago, is quick to credit Taylor and his entire staff for the high quality of the restoration and their deep interest and dedication in following through on the project from start to finish. Godsey’s shop, an example of a small business building a recession proof niche, is seeing an increase in repair customers, but Godsey was surprised by steady growth in vintage restoration projects…”
After only three years in Georgetown, business is booming. A Plus Auto Body now has a staff of eight, highly skilled professionals ready to meet your automotive needs.
Stop into our Georgetown Body Shop today, proudly serving the entire Paris, Centerville, Oxford, Newton, Leesburg, Cynthiana, Lexington and Frankfort Kentucky areas.