AUTOMOTIVE

Trade Group Board: Robert Tuttle, managing partner of Irvine-based Tuttle-Click Automotive Group Inc., has been elected to a second term as president of the Orange County Motor Car Dealers Assn.

Joining the longtime auto dealer and former assistant to President Ronald Reagan on the trade group board are Vice President Tom Ramstead, owner of Mike McCarthy Buick, GMC & Subaru in Westminster; Treasurer Steve Rojas, president of Fullerton Dodge; and Secretary Kevin Allen, the association’s executive director.

Other dealer association directors for 1995 include Rick Evans, co-owner of Huntington Jeep-Eagle and Hummer in Huntington Beach; Mike Shepard, owner of Santa Ana Chrysler-Jeep; and Lew Webb, chairman of Irvine-based Lew Webb Automotive Group.

Also elected to the 1995 board were Al Parajeckas, co-owner of the Barwick group of dealerships in San Juan Capistrano; Jim Klein, owner of County Wide Motors in Garden Grove; and Dick Hsu, head of Tustin Acura.

The association represents 102 new-car dealers in Orange County--the nation’s fourth-largest car market. Los Angeles County; Cook County, Ill., and the Dallas-Ft. Worth metropolitan area in Texas are the top three.