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Mel Hunke
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Mel Hunke was born July 20, 1940 in West Point Nebraska. He attended grade
school at a small country school in Aloys, Nebraska. He went to high school for
three years in West Point and graduated from Howells High School in 1958. From
there, Mel went to Omaha and worked at OBECO and FREUHAUF trailer factories
before attending one semester, (all he could afford), of auto collision repair
at Milford. After that he worked at Omaha Volkswagen and Johnny Baxter's before
moving to Pierce, Nebraska to start Pierce Body Shop.
In the summer of 1965, Mel married Carolyn Means. Together they raised two
sons, Chris, the owner of Cars-R-Us Body & Restoration in Omaha, and Greg of
Atlanta, Georgia. Debbie is a foster daughter who lives in the Philadelphia
area.
Mel taught auto body repair at Northeast Nebraska Technical
Community College in Norfolk from 1972 to 1983. Shortly after that he moved to
the Kansas City area to be closer to and to participate in the 3-M Arms and
other body shop industry seminars. Carolyn and Mel opened a shop in Kansas City
and operated it for nearly fifteen years before selling the business to the
CARSTAR franchise, which Mel helped to launch.
Now, semi-retired and continuing his seminar and training work, the most
interesting development for Mel is the training of insurance adjusters for a
catastrophe adjusting team.
Some of Mel's collision repair industry activities include being a past
Metal Shop editor for Body Shop Business magazine, member of
Exact Foundation Board of Directors, contributing editor to various trade
pubications, consultant to CARSTAR automotive from its inception to the present,
serving as an I-CAR instructor trainer in the USA and Canada, and of course,
most important to all of us, he was the organizing president of the Nebraska
Autobody Association.
Inducted March 31, 2001
Nebraska Autobody
Association
PO Box 145
Clay Center, NE 68933
nz41254@windstream.net
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