(people speaking indistinctly)
(garage door humming)
(nostalgic piano music)
- [Bill] My name's Bill, Bill Bergstrom,
and this is my wife, Samantha Bergstrom.
And we came here today to have the little Fiat buffed out.
We're really looking forward to it.
- [Jason] Starting tomorrow is our
master level three-day class that covers everything from
real high quality sanding,
all the way to the finished quality
of a show car, perfect car.
- My name is Bruno Basso.
I'm from Orlando, but I'm Brazilian.
- I'm Allen Kniphfer from Birmingham, Alabama.
- My name is Joseph Bres from Raleigh, North Carolina.
I run "Polish Pros" down there.
- Cory Unruh. I'm from Newton, Kansas.
I'm a high school teacher over there,
teach automotive technology and restoration.
- Billy Stutz.
I am originally from the Chicago land area and currently I
am living in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
- My name's Shad Stoker. I'm from Buddco in Salt Lake City,
Utah, and we're a distributor in the Salt Lake.
We service Salt Lake all the way from Vegas through Salt
Lake, all of Utah and up into Idaho.
- My main motivation is just get more skills
in my sanding of cars and correcting defects
in paint and better knowledge of that.
- I, eh, I'm professional.
I worked for four years with detailing.
I waiting for a long time for coming here.
I'm very happy.
- I came down here to advance the skills
that I need to learn here.
- The world loves the RUPES system. I'd like to,
I'd like to understand it a little bit better because I'm
not a RUPES guy yet, but I have one.
I just, I don't know what I'm doing with it.
(Billy laughing)
- I really came because I wanted to enhance my, my skills,
be able to take a paint job and really bring it to the next
level as well as being able to correct paint as well.
- So I actually came and did a- the two day training
in 2019 and the information was just amazing.
It was, I was able to take that information
and help my customers so much,
that when I saw the opportunity to do a
more even extensive class,
I really couldn't pass up the opportunity to come back
and learn even more.
- [Jason] It's another level of exciting because of
the type of car and the story behind the car.
- [Samantha] Well, it's a 1967 Fiat 600,
and I love everything Italian and I love Italy and
I like old things, old cars. So it's just kind of
nostalgic for me.
- [Bill] We bought it and went down with a friend of ours
and picked it up.
We had to put wheels and tires on it just to
get it out of this guy- You know, guy's yard.
- [Samantha] It's come a long way from where we found it
sitting under a pine tree with the windows open
and the floorboards rusted out
and the rocker panels rusted out.
- [Bill] Yeah.
- [Jason] Well, this is aged paint.
So it's been completely repainted months ago,
I think maybe even a couple of years ago. So it's very aged,
but refinished entirely the entire car.
- [Bill] So we took on the challenge and
we put that paint down and it was like,
"Okay, the car's done." Well, yeah.
(Samantha chuckles)
- [Todd] There's a lot of paint on it as well.
So when we were speaking with the owner,
I think he said about six, maybe some places,
seven coats of paint, of course we'll measure the thickness,
but because it is an Italian car that does tie in
beautifully to the history of RUPES and the ability to see
the paint residue and manage it.
It is the perfect jumping point for anybody who hasn't
experienced this style of show cars,
sanding and polishing to really sink into and get a lot out
of it. So I think we're all really, really excited.
There's a lot of different angles that are all playing
together that really make it a perfect car.
- [Jason] And fortunately for us,
which is great for our class,
all the body trim and the headlights and the seats in the
interior, every, all the parts have been removed
because we can sand and polish all the way to the edges
and in a really fantastic way without having to work around
the trim and all that.
And another great training feature of this car is that it's
single stage red.
Not having a clear coat is a fantastic training experience
because you can actually see the paint removal and the
residue load on pads.
Which is great for people to actually visualize,
because when you're working with clear,
you can't see that stuff. And so we're telling people,
"you have to clean your pads frequently",
but when you can actually see it,
it becomes a lot easier to get that concept in your head.
- [Bill] If it comes out shiny as a clear coat,
we'll be really happy,
but we aren't expecting that because this is
a single stage paint.
It's a classic car, and so we're just
looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
(jaunty television show intro music playing)
(energetic beat playing)
(music fades)
- So I remember when I saw this car first and saw the
what I would describe as severe texture or orange peel,
I thought "How exciting!", you know,
we can make a class out of this.
And then when we get into it, we're like.
"Oh, why did I pick this car?"
- There was a point early on where I was thinking
the same thing about you.
(Jason and Todd laughing)
- "Why did you pick this car?"
- "Why Jason, why? Jason."
- It was very challenging.
So, not only the severity of the texture,
but the hardness of the top coat.
- The hardness of the top coat, but also,
and it's not uncommon on repainted cars,
but maybe the level is as we peeled the onion,
the paint just kept changing and changing.
So what started off as extraordinarily hard paint,
by the time, which is what you don't want for
defect removal,
- [Jason] Yeah.
- [Todd] By the time we got to the finishing step,
had gone all the way to the other side of the spectrum,
And now was basically, I think you described it
as peanut butter.
- Towel scratching and- - Compound drying.
- Swelling. - Yeah, yeah.
- A very challenging paint, really challenging paint.
And we were talking about how,
in our many years of doing this sort of stuff,
that we rarely,
if ever reach for 600 grit sandpaper.
But this was a time we put that on a machine and started
mowing down paint.
- Yeah. You know,
but the benefit of all of the challenges is that ultimately
we overcame them.
And the students got to see in the real world experience,
how you cannot teach a process to deliver a good result.
You have to teach concepts in a classroom and then replicate
them on paint so that they learn how to process what's going
on and make the adjustments necessary.
If we were polishing in a bubble, then we can say,
"A-B-C gives you this result".
But in the real world, and especially,
this is a far example of the real world,
that process,
these students got more out of this class than I think we
would have thought was even possible at the beginning
because we had a very aggressive process of going from
orange peel to show car flat...
- [Jason] Sure.
- [Todd] ...on a moving target.
- [Jason] Yeah.
- [Todd] So what a great experience and some that I'm,
I think we'll both be really proud of for a long time.
- And given the feedback from the students that went,
that they mirror it exactly what you said...
- Well, I paid them. (Jason laughs)
- What a great experience, ya know?
- [Shad] So, overall, this experience has been, um.
It's been a lot of things. It's been eye-opening,
it's been entertaining, a lot of fun, obviously educational.
So again, the dynamic that they have, that you guys
have created with the classwork, and then hands-on,
classwork, and hands-on really helps
to cement the information that
you're learning. Because it's not-
you don't have a whole day of one specific thing.
So you lose the translation.
It's covered, and then you actually go out and do it,
which helps to cement that knowledge in.
So, again, just the trainers, having that level,
the caliber of trainers that they have here to watch over
you and walk you through the real life application of this
is- it's invaluable.
- [Allen] It has greatly improved my ability
to use RUPES' tools that I had thought I knew how to use
and expanded my knowledge on getting
the car flat and ready to go.
- [Cory] This is, this experience has really been great.
I thought I knew quite a bit about polishing,
about finishing, and I'm just, it's really expanded,
expanded my knowledge beyond what I was expecting.
It's it's been very, very impressive.
- [Billy] The most rewarding parts,
other than learning from, I think,
some of the best in the industry and being in class with
some people that bring something different every time has
been the comedy stylings of Todd Helme.
- [Joseph] This experience has been very good.
I would have to say, I mean,
I've been trying to learn a couple of things on my own,
and you'll never get the answers unless
somebody shows you how to do things properly.
And that's the key to a lot of things, you know,
teaching somebody the proper methods.
- [Bruno] I'm very happy. I'm very proud.
(garage door rattling open)
- [Bill] No looking, no looking.
(Samantha chuckling)
I think they repainted our car.
(inspirational music swells)
Holy moly.
Wow!
Seriously?
(man laughs)
And I thought you guys were just screwing around here.
Oh my God.
Now this is how it was supposed to look when
I painted it, but.
(men laughing)
- [Samantha] I am so thrilled. You just can't even imagine.
- They did it.
- Thank you, guys.
Wow.
- [Bill] Nobody will believe I painted it.
- [Samantha] I just, I went home after we dropped it off
and I just had to tell everyone how you guys
just treated us like royalty.
Treated my car, like royalty.
I feel like we hit the lottery.
My little car hit the lottery.
I just, I just can't believe you guys did this for us.
- [Bill] Yeah.
- [Samantha] It's overwhelming. It's- I'm just speechless...
- [Bill] Mm-hmm.
- [Samantha] ...I don't know what to say.
It's, it's like a dream come true.
It's nicer than I ever could have imagined.
- Yeah, It's unbelievable. How, how beautiful it turned out,
you know, to see it here finally, after I had,
we'd put that paint down and it didn't come out right,
and this was the first real paint job that I've ever done.
So for this to happen,
it's almost like we finally got that paint job that she was
wanting, now.
Before it was almost like that was primer until you guys
finished it. It's blowing my mind how incredible it looks.
It's almost like I want to leave it right there and look at
it for days, you know?
(Samantha laughing)
I'd come back and still be looking at it. Yeah.
- And I can't wait to get it home and get all the parts put
back on and drive it.
- [Shad] If I could tell one thing to someone considering
this trainer,
any training through RUPES, it's just "Pull the trigger."
It's worth not only the time investment,
but the financial investment. It is,
it will pay dividends for the rest of your
detailing career. I mean, the investment is small
when you consider the amount of money
that you can make in the real world,
from what you can learn in the one day training,
let alone the three-day masterclass.
It's really, it's a no brainer in my eyes.
- [Cory] If there's one thing I could tell people
who are considering this training,
it would really be no matter what your level,
whether you're, whether you're intermediate, really high,
anywhere in between, I would really recommend it.
It's going to bring up to your level of your level of
skill, without question.
- [Joseph] I would definitely recommend the training.
You know, as long as you can teach people
the right methods and you focus on things to
finish out correctly,
the job of the end of the day, then that's all that matters.
- [Bruno] Oh man, Jason, he's a big monster.
Todd is amazing guy and both, you know,
everything the whole process for, from paint,
correction, sanding, everything.
I'm very happy.
(motor revving)
- So did you guys figure out how many clowns
you could fit in this thing?
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