Longtime Malibu resident Andy Cohen has died.
Cohen, a resident of western Malibu, was a member of the city’s public safety commission.
There, he worked tirelessly behind the scenes improving the lives of Malibu residents.
Andy Cohen dug into his own checkbook to rent equipment and spent months organizing last summer’s public safety fair at Trancas Country Market.
Cohen was a major force in organizing city support for increased sheriff’s patrols in Malibu last summer. It was he who helped LASD Lieutenant Jennifer Seetoo obtain a half-million dollars in extra law enforcement grants from LA County for PCH this past summer.
The program resulted in a dramatic hike in tickets written and a 42-percent drop in injury crashes
Other programs like cops on bikes were instituted by the sheriff’s department with Cohen’s enthusiastic backing.
Cohen was known nationally for his business, Beverly Hills Motoring Accessories. He turned a small auto parts store on Robertson Boulevard into a worldwide brand—“the nation’s most prestigious automotive toy store,” according to the Washington Post.
Exotic cars of all species were his specialty. His favorite car was a 1940 Ford Woody station wagon—but what a woody. He told blogger Fireball Tim that it had a ’63 Corvette engine in it.
He used this car for a delivery vehicle when he started Beverly Hills Motoring Accessories business in 1976.
Cohen died of a heart attack last weekend.