Steve Murray Co owner
Education: Woodbury High School Class of '66
Porter School of Engineering & Design (Certified in technical illustration)
Automotive Background: Hobby since 16 years old (Mechanical & Bodywork)
4 yrs experience at Lombard Brothers Trucking (Mechanic, Class 8 trucks)
2 yrs Experience at UPS (mechanic)
25 yrs as the co owner of Murray Brothers Garage
Hobbies/Interests: Restoring old cars, trucks, motorcycles, and generally anything that has an engine. Building stone walls. Continuing student of dance.
Most likely to say: "Shouldn't be to bad" "You'll have that"
How i got here: Didn't want to stay at UPS forever, so i opened the garage with my brother Andrew.
Andrew Murray Co owner/service writer
Education: Woodbury schools from k through jr. high. The Gunnery for high school.
Johnson State College Vt, Montana State University were i graduated (finally) majoring in extreme skiing if i remember correctly.
Automotive Background: BMW trained motorcycle mechanic in Brooklyn & Staten Island
Certified Connecticut emissions repair technician.
Hobbies/Interests: Long walks with my beautiful wife & dogs, And many other things. * See the Andrew Pages
Favorite Quote: "Have fun doing what you're doing, if it's a little bit illegal don't get caught" (stone man, plr dj 1976)
How i got here: I couldn't work for anyone else (issues with authority) so i opened the garage with my brother Steve.
Leslie Murray The artist responsible for most of the artwork, and antiques you see around our shop.
Jan Drost Accountant/bookkeeper
Education: Associates degree in Accounting
Automotive Background: Key? √ , Car? √, Key starts car?√ Good to go
Hobbies/Interests: My dogs, family life and computer games
Most likely to say: "Don't ask me, i am the financial Goddess"
How i got here: I was doing some bookkeeping and met Leslie at a part time Job. She asked me to computerize Murray Brothers. That was in 2001 and I've been here ever since.
Duncan Forbes Service writer/ disaster aversion specialist
Education: School of hard knocks
Automotive Background: Street racing in L.A. Motorcycle racing.
General Background: 25 yrs as a TV camera man, sound man, and gaffer-mostly documentries for ABC, NBC, HBO, PBS ect.
Hobbies/Interests: Fishing, motorcycle racing and home repair
Most likely to say: "shut up and drive"
How i got here: I met Andrew through a friend who raced motorcycles. Andrew let me come down to the shop to build my RD350 roadrace bike, that was 13 years ago. I have now worked here for the past 10 years.
Jay Seile Technician
Education: Yup, err i mean yes
Automotive Background: Started playing with carbs @ 5 years old and I've been playing with cars ever since.
Hobbies/Interests: Bikes, cars, photography, copulation, Rx and Rock & Roll.
Most likely to say: "Don't worry about it, they all do that"
How i got here: My Father sold the garage to Steve & Andrew and apparently i was part of the deal.
John Allison Technician, ASE certified advanced level specialist, Master Tech,
CT Licensed Emission Repair Tech.
Education: High School in Appleton City MO. Graduated from ITT technical institute in Kansas City MO.
Automotive Background: 2.5 years at Zink Ford in Appleton City MO and 20+ years at Murray Brothers Garage.
General Background: Grew up on a farm in Missourri. At 21 i moved to CT and I've been working for Murray Brothers ever since.
Hobbies/Interests: Gardening, motorcycle riding, hunting, target shooting, pretending to be a farmer.
Most likely to say: "Goodluck with that" "Fix the F***ing thing already"
How i got here: My truck.
Don Fish Jr. Technician, ASE certified advanced level specialist, Master Tech,
CT Licensed Emission Repair Tech.
Education: Everyday
Automotive Background: I've been working for Murray Brothers for most all of my adult life and its been great so far.
Hobbies/Interests: Racing, Riding, computers and the joys of single parenthood
Most likely to say: "Just replace the ecm already" "i'm so glad i don't have to work on that" "OMG i can't believe i have to work on that"
How i got here: My Cousin worked for Murray Brothers at the time. He came to me and told me they were looking for someone to fill an opening so i went down. I talked to Steve and i've been here ever since.
John Toomey What could i say about him hmmm.... oh Gods gift to the automotive repair business.
Houk Nichols life of the party, Has a newborn son with his soon to be wife. 
Richard Nye Gamer, Engineer, destroyer of tool boxes
Mary Merrill Ya like im going to risk life and limb to say anything with out first checking with her.
Colton Custodial engineer, typical teenager who has no clue
Rubin Emissions guy, has a great attitude
Jett Our canine vacuum cleaner. He is responsible for making sure there is not 1 food crumb left anywhere in our shop, ever.
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