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WHO IS JUDGE ALEMBIK?
JUDGE* ALEMBIK HAS SERVED THE CITIZENS AND
FAMILIES OF FULTON COUNTY AS A JUDGE FOR. A
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RESPECTED IN OUR. COMMUNITY.
HE HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF FULTON COUNTY FOR. 52
YEARS.
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Auto body shop’s owner has lifelong love affair with cars
BY JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
Lisa Dombrowslcy likes cars. She has
since she was a teenager.
“I’ve been in this business since I
was 17,” said Dombrowslcy, the owner
of Dent Wizard on Peachtree Industrial
Boulevard, who’s 46 and has kids of her
own now. “I started selling cars... I want
ed a brand-new 300 ZX and the only way
to buy myself a car was to go to work. I
worked long enough to get that car.”
She lived in Miami then. Originally a
Jersey girl, she moved to south Florida
with her family at age 14, she said. She
got her first job at 15, working in a res
taurant. She’s worked at different jobs
through the years, but kept coming back
to ones that had something to do with
cars.
“I’ve just always been into cars,” she
said. “I love ’em. I love the feel of a nice
car. I love the way a car looks. There’s
nothing better than having a lcick-ass
car that you’re one with.... You can just
drive.”
After she earned enough money to
buy that first 300 ZX, she went into auto
insurance, she said. Through the years,
she worked with a car detailing com
pany and for a mobile body shop su
pervising the guys who removed dents
from banged-up fenders. “I started with
two trucks and within a year, I have 12
trucks on the road, and 24 guys and 39
dealerships served,” she said.
When she met her husband-to-be,
a neighbor in her apartment complex
named Scott, he was in the dent-fix
ing business, too. “We lived in the same
complex,” she recalls. “He lived down
stairs with his little frou-frou Pomera
nian and I lived upstairs with my two
kids.”
They relocated to Atlanta and, in
2010, went into business running the
car dent repair shop at 5717 Peachtree
Industrial Highway in Chamblee. Scott,
who had worked for years with Dent
Wizard, knew the repair side of the busi
ness, Dombrowslcy said.
“I’m the one who knew the business
side,” she said. “He knew nothing about
the business side. ... He had the skill of
paintless dent repair,” which she de
scribed as a method of fixing dents in
car fenders by using tools on the inside
and outside of fenders to push out the
dent.
Getting settled in metro Atlanta
wasn’t easy at first, she said. “I hated it
here,” she said.
Then, in 2012, Scott died from an an
eurism in his brain. Lisa suddenly had
to take over the business, called Unique
Auto Appearance, and run it by herself.
“Solo,” she said.
It hasn’t been easy. She says oth
er business owners think they can take
advantage of her simply because she’s
a woman owner in a male-dominated
business. She hired her own staff and
still operates her business from the re
pair shop located among the cluster of
car dealers on Peachtree Industrial.
“It is a man’s world, but being in it
since I was 17,1 don’t look at it that way,”
she said. “In Georgia it’s that way, but in
Miami, it’s not. I take my business se
riously. If something happens to some
body’s car, I fix it. I look at clients’ cars
as if they’re my own cars.”
JOE EARLE
Lisa Dombrowslcy says she has
always been into cars.
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