DENTS SLOW TO GET FIXED

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 26, 1992                   TAG: 9201270196
SECTION: NEW RIVER VALLEY ECONOMY                    PAGE: 38   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Joe Tennis
DATELINE: RADFORD                                LENGTH: Short
DENTS SLOW TO GET FIXED
Look for more banged-up fenders than usual as long as the recession lasts.
That's the word from Robert Goolsby, body shop manager at Harvey's in Radford.
Car owners these days just aren't getting all of the dings and dents knocked out of their vehicles - especially with insurance claims, Goolsby said.
"On small claims, they're leaving the damage on vehicles and banking the money away."
Still, business has been "great" and "growing" at Harvey's body shop, said Goolsby, who makes about $30,000 a year.
Before coming to Radford two years ago, Goolsby, 31, was body shop manager at Allred Chevrolet in Salem.
As manager, Goolsby supervises nine workers, including seven full-time technicians, a part-time technician and a secretary.
His duties include controlling all of the shop's work, from finances to buying, purchasing to estimates.
"I like the challenge. I'm not doing the same thing every minute," he said.
"One minute it's accountant, the next minute a technician. It ranges anywhere in between. Every five minutes I'm doing something different."

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB