Post SEMA 2015 Pictures and my take on this year's show

[Mike Phillips]

Post SEMA 2015 Pictures and my take on this year's show


It's kind of strange how things work out but what usually happens is when people are visiting the booth, a lot of times they ask to get a picture. We all say yes of course. But too often all the pictures end up on the visitor's camera and I end up with just a few pics from the actual event. So this year I tried to whip out my phone every time we were taking pictures in the booth to get a few this year.

Here's what I had on my camera after getting back to Stuart and getting caught up in other areas of my normal job duty responsibilites...



Autogeek Booth

This is Juan Solved from Arlington, Texas. He's a pro detailer and a genuinely nice guy.

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This is Claude Harris Jr. from Norwalk, California. He shares a lot of his work on Facebook and it always looks top notch.

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This is Nick Chapman from Grapevine, Texas. It's been rewarding to follow his success in this industry from the time he started to where he's at now.

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Group shot...

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This is Joey and Ryan. These are the two guys that are doing all the detailing work on the TV show Count's Kustoms with Danny Koker. We had a great discussion about power tools, pads, products and techniques and I had the honor of autographing all 4 of my how-to books for them.

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Flex Booth

This is Jim Goguen one of the nicest guys as well as the most successful guys in the car detailing business.

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Me and Renny Doyle - Another one of the nicest guys in the detailing industry.

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RUPES Booth

This is Marco D'Inca the head Engineer at RUPES. He's the key guy behind the BigFoot polishers and in this picture I had just signed a copy of my new RUPES how-to book for him. Before SEMA Marco was so kind as to to call me from Italy to congratulate me on the how-to book as we sent a few copies to RUPES before the SEMA show started. Thanks Marco!

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This is Francesco Ginocchio; he's the Marketing Manager for RUPES and always the fun guy in any crowd!

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This is my friend Oleg from Russia! He took this selfie of me and him and when I flipped the picture from being upside down I forgot to also flip the picture from left to right so the text on my book is reversed. :D

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SONAX Booth

This is Manfred Hoffmann the fourth generation owner and president of SONAX from Germany. I met him while doing a book signing in the SONAX booth.

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Here's Renny, Bill, myself and John D'Agastino. Bill and John are also long time buddies in the car show circuit.

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This is Elvis 3 a Kustom 1959 Cadillac by custom car builder and long time friend John D'Agastino. Most of my good friends know I'm a caddy fan having owned a 5 - 1959 Cadillacs and a couple of 1960's.

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This is Renny Doyle and Bill Stuart. Bill is a very good and long time friend.

If you've ever used the synthetic chamois called the ABSORBER or wet sanded with Nikken Finishing Papers this is the man behind those two products.

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[Mike Phillips]

Continued....
Back to the Autogeek booth

This is Koshi Le, another professional detailer our of Texas who also does some custom car building.

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Me, Wayne Carini and John D'Agastino. John asked me to stand on the other side of myself so AJ could be in the picture. :D

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Ray Evernham the star of Americarna!

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Bruno Massel who has two TV shows, Truck U and Garage Squad

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Dennis Gauge

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JD and Martha from Dallas Car Sharks!

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Me and Chip Foose...

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Pavel Vayvads from Russia

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Long time friend Jeff Brown from Griot's Garage!
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:)

[ronkh57]

Cool!

Thanks for sharing.

[Kamakaz1961]

Thank you for the Pics!! I saw most of the Pics on Facebook!! Can't wait till March to see your new show.

PS: AJ is about 10,0000 times better looking than you!!!! NO OFFENSE!!!!.....LOL

It must be hard to concentrate sometimes when you have such a beautiful co-host next to you when filming!!

All kidding aside; All the best and success to your new show!!

[Mike Phillips]

Continued...


Jamie Varnell

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Ed Terwilliger with me and Mel Craig behind the book signing booth...

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I met two guys this year with the same name as me! Here's one of them....

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This is my long time friend Kristhian Salazar from Bogotá, Colombia!

Kristhian was so kind to bring me some coaster from his home country! Thank you buddy!

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Don't know how many but I know I signed a lot of books this year. Had a total of 4 books on hand for fans of both car detailing and boat detailing.

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Jim Holloway from Mothers, me and and I think Jim's brother Jeff...
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This is Kyle Tucker's 1970 Chevelle that we used for the first episode of "Competition Ready".

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While taking a Taxi through Las Vegas I took these shots of the Trump Tower...

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SEMA 2015 = Best SEMA ever!


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[Mike Phillips]

Cool!

Thanks for sharing.



Thank you Ron... :xyxthumbs:






Thank you for the Pics!! I saw most of the Pics on Facebook!! Can't wait till March to see your new show.

PS: AJ is about 10,0000 times better looking than you!!!! NO OFFENSE!!!!.....LOL



I agree! She's very pretty and better yet incredibly nice and fun to work with.







It must be hard to concentrate sometimes when you have such a beautiful co-host next to you when filming!!



I go for blondes so it's no problem... have you seen my wife?





All kidding aside; All the best and success to your new show!!



Thank you... for what it's worth... I'm working harder in all aspects of my job then ever before in my life but to me it's not work it's my passion.


:)

[whavens]

Nice pics, Mike. I hope to be at SEMA next year.

Walter

:buffing:

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Good stuff Mike! Looks like you had another great SEMA year.

Thanks for sharing. Best wishes in the future.

[builthatch]

you're such a good dude, Mike. sheesh. a real "nice guy". AG lucked out getting you on board.