Pictures and comments from the 2017 Detail Fest Custom Car Builders Challenge for Competition Ready TV!

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Pictures and comments from the 2017 Detail Fest Custom Car Builders Challenge for Competition Ready TV!

Here are the pictures I found on my phone after shooting episode 207 and 208 of Completion Ready. These are pretty much in the order they came off my phone. Our TV production company, bcii does have a staff photographer on hand for each episode and when they send us the pictures they took I'll add some much higher quality pictures to this thread.


1941 Willys Coupe built by Kyle Tucker

1969 Camaro built by the Roadster Shop

1967 Chevelle Convertible built by Miranda Built Inc.

1966 Corvair Monza built by JB Granger

JB brought this car to Detail Fest directly after racing it and as such it was covered in dirt.

1967 Nova built by Jesse Greening

And no time to waste... everyone gets busy...

AJ is using the SONAX Clay Disc by hand on the 1967 Nova

Here's Bob Weiner machine compounding with the FLEX 3401

Up front is David Patterson from Lake Country using a FLEX PE14 to jewel the paint. Off to his side is Scott, also from Lake Country Pads.

This is Mike aka busymind here on our forum. Mike is using the FLEX XFE7 with Lake Country HDO Foam Pads on the Miranda built 1967 Chevelle.

 

[ronkh57]

All of those cars were incredible!

 

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After all the work was completed, (you'll have to watch the episode to see what all was done), the camera crew gets team shots with each team by the car they worked on.

From left to right

Pete Tanzin, David Salvatore, Gary Mellor, Seth Goss, Axel Bart, pj Aass

Scott Voelz, David Patterson, Jim Gougen, Hector Romero, Frank Saladrigas and Jeff Bell

Chris Metcalf, Mike Robibaro, Steve Printup, Rinardo Wilson, Nancy Russell, Rob McCrary and hiding behind Nancy is Robert DiTerlizzi

Mike Pena, Roger Phillips, Chris Luman, Guy Bottom, Bobby Wiener

CJ Forrester, Kristhian Salazar, Yisrael Verrett, Robert Fowler, Lee Ann Davis, Barry Owens and Daniel Sondej

Here's the final results - again this is off my iPhone 6+

Later that night Yancy and I had dinner with all the builders. pj from Dodo Juice, Stephanie his fiancée and Brandy, Yancy's wife.

 

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The above pictures were all from Friday, the day before Detail Fest Started.

The below pictures are from Saturday and Sunday, again jus whatever was on my phone.


Each year all the TV Celebrities get to choose their favorite car. I chose this 1952 Chevy Cabover Streetrod Hauler.

I had 4 classes this year, they all filled up and 3 of the 4 were overflowing. Here I'm signing a book for Yuri from Japan.

This is my friend Tim who took an award for one of his 1934 Fords. (he had two on display)

This picture was taken at the "Meet & Greet" which is my favorite part of Detail Fest.

From left to right...

Von Hot Rod, Chris West, Stacy Phillips, Mike Phillips (me) and Dennis Gage

This was a group shot with representatives from FLEX,

From left to right,

Dennis Gage, Bob Eichelburg, Christy Lee, Andreas Ditsche, Chris Metcalf and me...

This is my long-time friend from Colombia, Kristhian Salazar

Here AJ has joined us....

This is me with AJ and Ray Evernham from the TV show Americarna

This is Eddy Cebreco from a local country western restaurant. He's also an avid detailer and it was great to meet him at Detail Fest.

This was one of the multiple celebrity panels hosted by Chris Jacobs. Notice Dennis on the end having too much fun!

On the way out we took a few photos with the cardboard cutout contest, this is me and Andreas Ditsche - Andreas is the President and CEO of FLEX tools in Germany. Thank you Andreas for sponsoring our TV show Competition Ready, it's GREAT to have the legendary FLEX power tools to work on so many incredible cars.

This is Bob Eichelburg. Bob is the President of FLEX North America. Thank you too Bob for sponsoring our TV show, you know how important it is to me to have the best power tools in the industry when working on not only incredible cars but also very expensive and rare cars.

And last but not least, before we even left for Detail Fest Ed Scully stopped by my office to say hi! Thanks Ed! It's always great to have you helping out at Detail Fest each year.

That's all that was on my phone...

Besides all the people shown above none of this could have happened without the incredible team here at Autogeek. Plus all the hard work planning this humongous and gigantic event by Meghan and her team.


Thank you everyone!

 

[Scott V @ LCM]

I would like to thank Mike and the rest of the team at Auto Geek for a great weekend at Detail Fest! I would also like to thank all of the members of "Team Rotary" who worked on the Yellow Inferno 69' Camaro, it was a pleasure working with you. I look forward to seeing everyone next year at Detail Fest.

 

[Renozx12]

I had a great time meeting and working with all team members, I learned a lot. Thanks Mike for having me on season 2 Competition Ready detail fest. That's one of the perks of going to Mike's Classes you meet some of the best detailer's in the world. It's a brother hood, it's great!!!

 

[custmsprty]

Amazing, thanks for sharing all this Mike. It sure has grown into an unbelievably huge event!

All of the people over the years who have helped build this into the event it has become should all be proud of the part they have played, it's truly a one of a kind event for detailing enthusiasts.

 

[Bob Wiener]

What an amazing experience! It was great seeing some old friends and making new ones. Everyone worked great together and made some awesome cars look their best! I am truly thankful to have had the opportunity with a great group of professionals!

 

[Klasse Act]

That 41' Willy's is AWWWWWWWESOME!

 

[axel06]

Thank you Mike Phillips competition-ready autogeek what an amazing experience, to polish side by side with 30 of the top detailers in the country is just unimaginable, I had the time of my life and will remember this forever, thank you to Ashley and Adam The Producers what and the outstanding job they did

 

[FrankS]

Great pictures Mike and thank you for the opportunity and privilege to be a part of another episode of Competition Ready.

It was an amazing experience to work together with other pro detailers, reunite with old friends and meet new ones. Lifetime bonds and friendships are made in these kind of venues.

This year I was able to meet and work together with David Patterson and Scott Voelz from Lake Country Mfg. Couple of super nice guys always ready to share their knowledge about pad technology...good stuff!

Outstanding job as always Mike putting together and coordinating the CR teams, teaching classes, answering questions, etc, etc, etc.

I'm now convinced that Mike Phillips is not human but a MACHINE :dblthumb2:

 

[barryjowens]

It was an awesome event! I was amazed at the talent of detailers from across the globe that came together and worked side by side to showcase these outstanding cars and make them the best we could. I also was impressed with the latest top of the line products from Sonax. They made our jobs much easier and produced amazing results.
Thank you to Autogeeks Mike Phillips and AJ for all their encouragement and direction. The results were amazing.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

I would like to thank Mike and the rest of the team at Auto Geek for a great weekend at Detail Fest!

I would also like to thank all of the members of "Team Rotary" who worked on the Yellow Inferno 69' Camaro, it was a pleasure working with you.

I look forward to seeing everyone next year at Detail Fest.

Hi Scott,

Thanks for chiming in. Just so everyone knows, the 1969 Camaro, which took first place, was buffed out using ONLY the rotary polisher. The FLEX PE14-2-150 Rotary Polisher to be specific.

It came out hologram-free.




The primary reason for a hologram free finish was three things,


1: GREAT abrasive technology provided by our sponsor, SONAX.

I harp on the importance of abrasive technology on this forum, on Facebook and at all my classes. Some people listen and some don't care but it is the number one most important factor when it comes to create not only a show car finish but any quality finish.



2: GREAT foam pad technology from our sponsor Lake Country Pads

For the Camaro the team cut the paint using 5" Lake Country Hybrid Orange Cutting Pads and SONAX EX O4-O6

For the finishing step they used SONAX Perfect Finish (specifically formulated for rotary polishers) and the 6.5" Lake Country Hybrid Gold Jeweling Pads.



3: The skill of the detailers

Jeweling with a rotary buffer requires skill and the team I assembled for using only rotary buffers was chosen deliberately.


To seal the paint the team used the new coating from SONAX

SONAX CC36 Ceramic Coating



Thanks again Seth for all your hard work as well as the rest of the Camaro team and also everyone that was on this episode.


I'll add the specific tools, pads and products used for all the cars in the next few days as they all turned out GREAT!


:dblthumb2:

 

[Guyb]

Great pictures Mike, thanks for posting them. It was a great honor to be selected as a detailer for this episode of Competition Ready. Thank you for this opportunity. It was good meeting so many great detailers and getting to know the faces behind the forum names. The team I was on had a blast given the challenges with the Corvair. For a small car it had its share of opportunities! I believe we would all do it again in a heartbeat.

Thanks to Mike Phillips, Autogeek, Competition Ready production crew and all of the great sponsors of Detail Fest.

 

[David at LC Pads]

Thanks for posting all the great pictures Mike! I had an amazing time working with all the detailers. I want to extend a special thank you to everyone on our team also, but to Mike, AJ, and the rest of the Competition ready crew. It's a lot of work to not only finish all the cars, but also to get everything filmed, and it can make for long hours. Lake Country is proud and honored to work with everyone, and hopefully see everyone sooner than later.

On another note, Detail Fest itself was awesome too. This event couldn't be what it is without Meghan, Juan, Bobby, Andre, Brian, and the rest of the crew. I can't thank you all enough for all of your hard work and support to make detailing, and this show what it is today!

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Great pictures Mike, thanks for posting them. It was a great honor to be selected as a detailer for this episode of Competition Ready. Thank you for this opportunity. It was good meeting so many great detailers and getting to know the faces behind the forum names. The team I was on had a blast given the challenges with the Corvair. For a small car it had its share of opportunities! I believe we would all do it again in a heartbeat.

Thanks to Mike Phillips, Autogeek, Competition Ready production crew and all of the great sponsors of Detail Fest.

Hi Guy,

It was great having you on the team and it was a pleasure to meet your wife at the Saturday night Meet & Greet.


See you at the May Comp Ready class! It's only about 5 weeks away and I'm working on some really cool cars for this class.


Next Competition Ready Class is May 5th, 6th and 7th 2017



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The next class for 2017 is May 5th, 6th and 7th



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You will learn to take cars that look like this....

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