NEW TIMES: How did you get your start in automotive repair?
KIMBALL: My father owns the Kimball Motor Company, so Iāve been around cars and the car business my whole life. When I was working in the car business I noticed repair men would come out to the car dealerships and customersā houses to repair minor dings and scratches. It was around 1991 when I decided to transition from selling cars to repairing them cosmetically throughout San Luis Obispo County.
NEW TIMES: What do you do?
KIMBALL: We provide basic touch ups for chips and scratches. We can polish surface flaws away before itās necessary to paint an area. If you need bumper work to be done weāll typically sand out the damaged area then smooth it out and paint the color back in. We spot in where itās damaged rather than paint the whole bumper. Weāve also been offering headlight restoration.
NEW TIMES: Do you have a repair shop for automobiles with extensive damage?
KIMBALL: No, weāre strictly a mobile operation. Most of our customers, about 60 to 70 percent, are car dealership owners who need some touch ups on used cars, but of course we offer all of our services throughout all of the Central Coast. ā
This article appears in Aug 12-19, 2010.