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

[Mike Phillips]

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!

[Mike Phillips]

Continued....


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.

[Mike Phillips]

Continued....

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