One shop on North East Road, Gilles Plains. Started in a back yard in 1963, owned by the Krawczyk family since 1990, and working to current manufacturer repair procedures today.
My father Gene started here as an apprentice spraypainter in February 1974 and bought the business in 1990. I have worked in this shop since I was sixteen, I have run it day to day for about ten years, and I took over ownership from my father recently.
Most of our work arrives through an insurer. We liaise with the insurer and the manufacturer, we repair to specification, and the person driving the car away should not be able to tell where the damage was. That is the whole job.
If you need us, phone 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 comes in as an apprentice spraypainter and stays in the trade.
The Krawczyk family has owned and run the shop from that point on.
Gene’s son Jason begins on the tools at sixteen, learning the trade the same way his father did.
Jason steps off the tools and into managing the day to day work.
Jason owns and manages the business now, working to current manufacturer repair procedures. Gene remains part of the history here.
The equipment has been renewed many times. The jig, the booths and the paint are current. What has not changed is that the same family is answering the phone.
