Quality Collision Repair Center
By Steve McLinden
Blink and you might miss it. A few blocks off the well-beaten track of Evangeline Thruway (Highway 90) in Lafayette, on a...
Gateway Paint & Body Shop
By Gary Baker
The manager of a Greeneville, Tenn., collision repair shop says innovative technology has brought, at least in one sense, a blessing and...
Cesar’s Collision Center
By Steve McLinden
Life keeps throwing Cesar Figueredo hardballs, and while he’s been knocked down repeatedly, the New Orleans body shop owner always bounces back,...
Commercial Truck Center
By Gary Bulter
NEWPORT, Tenn. — How does a truck repair/freight company reinvent itself and, quite literally, rise from the ashes of a horrific tragedy...
Complete Collision Center
By Steve McLinden
ZACHARY, La. — Just over a decade ago on a sunny late-August afternoon, Doug Reed Jr. locked up his Chalmette, La., body...
Rod’s Custom
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Rod Walker started out as a machinist working out of a 1,000-square-foot shop in his back yard. As his reputation grew,...
Custom Touch Paint & Body
What happens when the owner of an independent body shop suddenly becomes seriously ill or incapacitated? Typically, it’s a death-knell scenario for an operation....
Bluegrass Auto Body
Brother and sister Wes Lancaster and LeAnne Brooks are third-generation operators at Bluegrass Auto Body in Lexington, Ky. Their grandfather Dale Lancaster started the...