Big Bob – Bob really is big. Like REALLY big. You won’t miss Bob if you visit the shop. He has been mistaken for a relative of Bigfoot, but claims there’s no relation. Rumor has it, that if the frame straightening machine is broken, he’s been known to do it by hand. Bob started doing auto body repair when he “borrowed” his daddy’s truck one weekend when daddy was gone on a business trip.

All Bob claims to remember is that he woke up on Saturday morning with a bad headache and his blue jeans on backwards and when he looked outside, somehow the front of the truck was “kinda’ bent up”. Well, Bob knew that Daddy loved that truck, and if it didn’t look right when Daddy got home Tuesday night, Bob was in BIG trouble. So Bob started fixing it.

That’s when the miracle happened! Bob, who never did too well in class, found out that he had a gift for body work. When Daddy got home Tuesday night, that old truck looked better than ever. Daddy even thanked him for washing and waxing it. Bob knew his life’s calling from then on. He started Big Bob’s Body Shop in 1978 and has been pounding out dents ever since.

Pete “The Paint Guy” started by painting his girlfriend’s name on overpasses in 1983 and “went pro” with Big Bob’s in 1987. He claims that Bob gets all those Best of Show trophies at the car shows because of “magic” but Bob says it’s also from the great body & prep work that the others guys do.

“Dingy” Dave gets all the dirty jobs around the shop. He strips busted parts off the customer’s cars, does the sanding and other prep work, and details the customer’s cars. Dave started with Big Bob’s 3 years ago and Bob says Dave is turning into a “real” body man.

Trish Jones inspects every customer’s vehicle before it rolls out of the shop to make sure that every detail has been taken care of properly. She also runs the front office and keeps”The Boys” in line. Trish started with Big Bob’s in 1979 and has been Mrs. Bob since 1981.

Bubba is the company Chief of Security and can be found sleeping in some sunny spot around the shop when he’s not begging for hand-outs. He’s the one with 4 legs and the long, droopy ears. We don’t know how he got on the payroll. He just showed up one day and never left.