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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Jeff Green is running a one-man foreign automobile repair shop in Sperryville.
Flags flying out in front of Rappahannock Auto Service identify the countries of autos which he works on — Sweden, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy and the U.S.
He moved to the U.S. from England in 1988 after visiting here on holiday. While here visiting, he met his present wife, Jessica, they got married back in England, and moved to Flint Hill in 1991. In England, he had been trying to open his own auto repair garage but that didn't come to fruition. He attended college in London to be qualified as a mechanic.
After working for a few years at garages in northern Virginia, Mr. Green was able to follow his dream and opened his brand new garage in Sperryville on Dec. 15. He not only designed the building, but helped do the electrical and drywall.
Mr. Green specializes in all foreign car repairs, and said he knows. Jaguars the best. Since opening, he has worked mostly on BMW's and Jaguars. He drives a Sterling.
Last Friday he had a BMW in the shop on which he had just finished a valve job. Several other foreign autos, finished with their repairs, sat outside in the parking area awaiting their owners. In a comer of the roomy garage sits one of Mr. Green's long-term projects he is doing for an out-of-county customer. He is rebuilding a 1962 Norton motorcycle, for which most parts need to be replaced. He has been able to find some parts from connections in England, but it is a big project to work on in his spare time.
The garage is spacious enough to hold four cars and includes two rotary lifts to lift cars in the air. Their design is new within the last three or four years, said Mr. Green, and are much safer than the old style of lift.
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