Gene Hamilton

Gene Hamilton founded Sports and Imports Collision in Duluth, Ga., in the early 1980s after working in automobile sales and wholesale. He co-founded the Georgia Collision Industry Association in 1997, chaired the Society of Collision Repair Specialists in 2000 and 2001 and chaired the I-CAR board of directors in 2003 and 2004. He also served on the I-CAR Education Foundation board and I-CAR’s Gold Class Steering Committee, sat on the National Auto Body Council board and took part in the Collision Industry Conference for many years. In 2015 SCRS gave him its Lifetime Honorary Membership, one of only four it had awarded. He died Oct. 22, 2017, at 71.