PAP125: Celebrating 60 years of the Bathurst 1000
Release Date: 09/18/2023
PAP155: Ultra 9K and how anyone can accurately mix paint!
Paint and Panel: The Edge
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PAP154: Pulling back the curtains on Sherwin Williams ANZ with Richard Reneman
Paint and Panel: The Edge
This week’s key takeaway: Pulling back the curtain on Sherwin-Williams ANZ with Richard Reneman Episode intro: Something a bit different this week, as Ben takes a trip out of the studio to a top-of-the-range facility and speaks to Richard Reneman: director of Sherwin-Williams ANZ. Based down in Kincumber, the Sherwin-Williams site boasts a state-of-the art paint-mixing room and some top training and manufacturing facilities. Ben picked Richard’s brains about the success of the business, and why now is the time for Sherwin-Williams to announce themselves to the world. ...
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PAP153: How to diversify into detailing in your collision repair business
Paint and Panel: The Edge
This week’s key takeaway: How to diversify into detailing in your collision repair business Episode intro: In this episode we’re going to take a deep dive into detailing. You never know, this might just be the up-sell that transforms your business! Our deep-diving instructor is Matt Gibb, founder of Matt’s Magic Detail. This man is a serious big-hitter! He’s been running his own detailing businesses for well over a decade, and he managed to build up one of the most successful detailing facilities in the north-west of the USA in a matter of three years. Detailing is...
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PAP152: The Collision Repair Expo Report
Paint and Panel: The Edge
Episode intro: What a fantastic event this was! Very well attended and full of buzz. We ran out of magazines to hand out by Saturday morning. Lots of new products and services at the show here are some interviews about them from the show stands. In this episode, we hear from some of the movers and shakers at the event, and Editor Sam is joined by P&P National Sales Manager, Lynette Rochford, to discuss some of the highlights. In this week’s episode you will learn: How successful this year’s event was The Sagola 4600 spray gun The...
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PAP151: Updating the Motor Vehicle Insurance and Repair Industry Code of Conduct
Paint and Panel: The Edge
This week’s key takeaway: Updating the Motor Vehicle Insurance and Repair Industry Code of Conduct Episode intro: Talking about an Insurance Code of Conduct might sound a bit dry, but this episode is living proof that it can be interesting and more importantly, very useful! Almost all of you listening will get significant amounts of business from insurance companies, and no doubt you will have had some disputes along the way… but could they have been avoided? And is the new Code of Conduct going to help you avoid more disputes in the future? The people with the answers are...
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PAP150: The 2024 Bodyshop Awards and More
Paint and Panel: The Edge
This week’s key takeaway: Bodyshop Awards and more! Episode intro: This week we’re going to give you the lowdown on one of the highlights of the year for our industry, The Paint & Panel Bodyshop Awards. Editor Sam went to visit the platinum sponsor of the awards, Compass, and spoke to CEO James Frape and Claims Manager Zara Dickie about the importance of the awards and why they have been a principle supporter for nine years. Then we heard from Lynette Rochford from Paint & Panel, who gave us the inside track on the nomination and judging process. In this...
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PAP149: Beyond Partscheck, a deeper dive with Jasmine Lee De Wys
Paint and Panel: The Edge
This week’s key takeaway: Beyond PartsCheck: a deeper dive with Jasmine Lee DeWys Episode intro: We’ve been trying to get this week’s guest for over a year: the PartsCheck Business Development Manager, Jasmine Lee DeWys. Jas is a real mover and shaker in the business, and a great example of what you can achieve if, in her words, “you keep knocking on the door.” Jas also talks to us about the work of PartsCheck. Most of you will have already heard of PartsCheck, but you probably don’t know about the initiatives they’ve got going on in the background that are helping...
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PAP148 : An insight into the WA collision repair market
Paint and Panel: The Edge
This week’s key takeaway: An insight into the WA collision repair market - with Mike Wilkinson Episode intro: Editor Sam is in the chair for this week’s episode, talking to an absolute legend of the industry, Mike Wilkinson. Mike is the MD of Peter Wilkinson & Co; a prestige repair business in WA that his family started 65 years ago. Mike is a passionate advocate for the industry. He’s on the board of the ACIA and Car Craft, so we talk to him about the challenges facing our industry in 2024, and why WA are such a special breed of repairers. In this week’s...
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PAP147: Everything you need to know about the 2024 Collision Repair Expo
Paint and Panel: The Edge
To:Mitchell Fewtrell Thu 14/03/2024 12:18 PM This week’s key takeaway: Everything you need to know about the 2024 Collision Repair Expo Episode intro: This week we’re going to give you the lowdown on one of the most important events in the industry calendar: the Collision Repair Expo. Beginning on April 11 at the Melbourne Convention centre, the event is a great opportunity to immerse yourself in the industry. Rub shoulders with the movers and shakers, learn about the latest tech and hear from an array of world-class speakers. Guiding us...
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PAP146: Converting the Ford F-150 to RHD and adapting to the Aussie Market
Paint and Panel: The Edge
This week’s key takeaway: Converting the Ford F150 to RHD and adapting to the Aussie market - with Tom Dohrmann Episode intro: On the show this week we celebrate an incredible feat of Aussie engineering. The Ford F150 is driven off the line in Detroit as a LHD, but once it hits the Australian market, it is a perfectly converted RHD. Australia is the only place in the world that does this, and our guest this week is one of the key people who makes it happen. Tom Dohrmann is the Assistant Chief Programme Engineer for the F150 conversion. He tells us how the conversion is done and what...
info_outline- How the Bathurst started
- Steve’s journey into motorsport writing
- What's new in Steve’s book
- How the Bathurst functioned as a marketing exercise for cars in the showroom
- How the cars have evolved down the years
- The original circuit for the Bathurst
- How the Mount Panorama track has changed