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Before we were a
dealership, we were a family,
and on January 5, 2012,
we lost a father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and our founder.
Otto will be missed - and very much remembered.
OTTO BRUNOVSZKY (1923 -
2012)
Otto was born in
Hungary on October 12, 1923, and worked there as a mechanic until November 1956,
when he seized the opportunity presented by the "October Revolution" against the
Soviet occupation to emigrate to the United States with his wife, Elizabeth,
their daughter, Elizabeth (Lisa), and son John.
The family settled in southern Delaware County, and within a few years, Otto had
acquired his first automotive repair shop in Chester. In 1963 he opened Otto's
Foreign Cars Sales and Service in the lower level of a former parts facility in
Eddystone, where he burnished his reputation as a skilled mechanic.
The course of his business changed forever the day in 1968 when a representative
of famed importer Max Hoffman made a surprise visit and offered Otto a BMW
franchise. With the help of a $25,000 SBA loan, he leased the vacated upper
level of the building, and with the assistance of his children, opened the
dealership that incorporated in February 1972 as Otto's Imported Cars, Ltd.
By the time he retired in 1984, the business had become Otto's BMW and moved to
our current location on Wilmington Pike. Today, along with our MINI dealership
in Exton, Otto's is in its third generation of hands-on family operation.
Having lost his mother when he was four, Otto had a special appreciation for
family, and was a doting and devoted father, grandfather, and great grandfather.
We will miss Otto, but his legacy will endure in the business he founded and in
the hearts of those close to him. |
