Thomaschefsky retires immediately after 41 yrs as an auto mechanic in Merrill
Now he’ll be wrenching on a ‘65 mustang of his own
TINA L. SCOTT
EDITOR
Harvey Thomaschefsky is retiring from work as an automobile mechanic immediately after 41 years and 5 months of turning a wrench, but he’s not placing his applications down completely. Retirement usually means that now he’ll be able to change his focus to a aspiration venture of his have.
“Harvey came to function as a mechanic at Bloechl Motor Company in 1980 and stayed on when we ordered the dealership in 1988,” claimed Jim Brickner, President and co-proprietor of Brickner’s Park Metropolis in Merrill.
“Harvey arrived with the dealership …,” he claimed. “Harvey and I are the very last of the initial seven folks who have been with the dealership when we started out functions.”
“Harvey is a single of people men that everyone in city knows,” Brickner stated. “He has almost certainly fixed most everybody’s auto one particular time or one more, and is one particular of people excellent men that we were being blessed to be blessed to have operating with us.”
“Harvey cared about his buyers. He would try and resolve each auto in a way to support keep the expense down for the shopper, would endorse correcting only what was required, and was usually on time, and on undertaking,” he stated. “Harvey is a correct mechanic. He normally experienced the correct applications and abilities and encounter to resolve just about everything.”
“We generally joke that Harvey’s been about so long he the moment fastened Jesus’s donkey cart,” Brickner extra, laughing.
A lot more importantly, he experienced the type of operate ethic and perspective any employer would envy. “Harvey generally has a smile on his experience,” Brickner stated.
“So right now is a little bit of a momentous working day listed here at the dealership,” he said on Could 25, 2022. “Harvey Thomaschefsky is retiring.”
“He will be challenging to exchange,” he added. “One of the most effective folks you will at any time meet.”
Thomaschefsky is not disappearing completely from Brickner’s having said that. “I’m nonetheless heading to work section-time, but full time is accomplished,” Thomaschefsky stated. “Just like routine maintenance stuff – not performing on cars and trucks any longer. Taking care of products … oil furnaces and stuff like that, basic maintenance that I’ve now been accomplishing.”
On the mechanic aspect of items, “We have been really lucky to have hired a very experienced younger man who is relocating listed here from Montana, and we are extremely psyched to see how he does,” Brickner reported.
And Thomaschefsky is fired up, far too. “I acquired a ‘65 mustang that I’m restoring,” he claimed. “It just bought it painted yesterday.” [That was Thursday, May 26, the day immediately following his official retirement!] It is a dim metallic blue, not a standard coloration, but a shade he genuinely favored, he mentioned. His aim is to have it on the road upcoming 12 months. “I bought it in a box,” Thomaschefsky stated. “It was stripped down to the shell. I have to put it all back again jointly.”
When he’s not wrenching on this typical restoration, Harvey and his wife, Terri, hope to “get in a small much more camping,” reported Thomaschefsky who will turn 69 in July.
They have a large amount of life still left to are living, and Thomaschefsky is not squandering any time receiving ideal to it.