One shop on North East Road, Gilles Plains. Started in a back yard in 1963, owned by the Krawczyk family since 1990, and still here today, repairing vehicles to current manufacturer procedures.
My father Gene started here as an apprentice spraypainter in 1974 and bought the business in 1990. I’ve worked in this shop since I was sixteen, running it day to day for more than ten years before recently taking over ownership from my father.
Most of our work comes through insurers. We liaise with the insurer and the manufacturer, repair every vehicle to specification, and make sure the person driving it away shouldn’t be able to tell where the damage was. That’s the whole job.
If you need us, call the workshop. We will tell you plainly what happens next.
Owner and team photograph, natural light, graded cool. Real photography only.
Repair work begins in his back yard at Gilles Plains, under his own name.
Gene joins as an apprentice spraypainter and begins his career in the trade.
The Krawczyk family takes ownership and continues running the shop.
Gene’s son, Jason, joins the business at sixteen, learning the trade the same way his father did.
After years on the tools, Jason moves into managing the workshop and its daily operations.
Jason becomes owner and continues to run the family business, carrying the Krawczyk name into its next chapter.
The equipment has been renewed over the years. The jig, the booths and paint systems are current. What hasn’t changed is the same family answering the phone.
