Girl Garage

Why the public will flock to a car repair shop that tells the truth.

Girlington Garage Finds Its Niche

Women make half the drivers on the road but only a handful of them are working as mechanics. How one new business is finding a niche in the car-care industry.

Vroom with a View

Girlington Garage gets its engines running

By Lauren Ober [06.17.09] Seven Days

When plotting a career path a few years ago, Demeny Pollitt figured there were only two fields she could get into that would not put her to sleep: psychology and car repair. She loved the idea of working as a psychologist, helping people pick their way through the brambles of the mind. But that would require a minimum of six more years of schooling, and Pollitt, 30, wasn’t interested in that. Admittedly, she was not the most industrious student…