He Makes Millions Selling Car Wraps! Christian Beckerle | Digital Social Hour #97
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So in the wall industry, you got Roly, you got Automark Paget, you got Richard Milley.
In the luxury car space, who would you say are the top three?
Very biased.
So this is my opinion.
I would definitely place Lamborghini first.
Wow.
So I would list Lamborghini at one just because drivability and looks, bro.
Like Lamborghini, Ferrari.
And then to place a third one in there, you're probably going to go to, you know, Rolls-Royce or something just because of like the sheer like level of respect that you get
driving one
Welcome to the digital social hour.
I'm your host Sean Kelly.
I'm here with my co-host Wayne Lewis.
What up, what up?
And our guest today, Christian Beckerly.
How's it going, bro?
Mr.
Dip Autoworks himself.
Yes, sir.
Yep.
When I first moved here, he robbed my uh my tesla yeah bro that was that was cool yeah that was cool christian's been in the game for a long time bro it has been a while for those who don't know tell them about your story like your beginnings yeah yeah for sure so um
basically always into cars right always had a passion for cars um and then
real young really just kind of found like the car market and at the time there was a real popular product coming out uh plastidip it was like bro new revolutionary so i was just you know at my leisure messing around with it, you know, friends' cars, you know, just on my own personal stuff.
And it caught enough traction where I was like, man, you know what?
Like, this would be really cool to just throw an ad in on Craigslist and be able to do this, like fresh out of high school.
Like, I mean, I'm literally talking about like the summer of graduation.
And,
bro, it just, it just took off.
Like, I don't want to say immediately because it definitely didn't, but it immediately I had enough traction to like, you know, keep myself busy.
There was service there.
There was
a need there.
For sure, for sure and uh so it started off just you know little things dipping wheels and smoking out lights and stuff that kept me busy and and happy bro it was it was really cool it was it was a blessing and then um it kind of shaped into something that i really didn't didn't anticipate it um you know taking the the the turns that it did right um but bro it was it was
revolutionary like it just kind of things all timeline wise fell into place because a lot of the car custom stuff was was getting a facelift like there was new products that were coming out there was just it was really good timing um and bro i just worked out of the house for five years until late like 2018 and then um
how how was it working out of
out of the house like how did you manage to because where how how are you at that time so so so fresh out of high school so 20 2013 i had to been like 18 years old 18 years old 18
no college no no no no no you created a uh basically like a custom car shop out of his parents' crib.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
It was right out of the driveway, bro.
I remember when I very first started out, I was even using like a newspaper to tape off cars, you know what I mean?
House tape.
Yeah, yeah.
So it was, it was cool, bro.
And it was, you know, you definitely had to create a culture because not a lot of people, you know, felt comfortable just coming up to somebody's house and dropping their car off.
So always been, you know, pretty good at, you know,
socially relating to people and kind of, you know, finding a little niche there.
So it kind of
was really smooth, bro.
I enjoyed it.
So the first five years at the house,
counting kind of came out towards the end of
that.
We would get some heavy traffic out there.
And
it was kind of the same story that you'll hear all the time.
Like, there's always somebody that's in the background, just, you know, plotting on your downfall.
Can't wait to see you.
You know, you fail.
So he actually built a
warehouse yeah yeah in front of his crib now it wasn't ragged it was like the real like the like the rv yeah really nice nice rv garage bro it was huge really and he built it in front of his house wait just on the street no it was like so it's i mean it was like it's a it's a real small cul-de-sac like all custom built home do hoa stuff so it was really easy for me to basically just take like the whole side yard lay some concrete put up a big shed and just wow just yeah yeah make it work it was cool
he really built a business off of it like he was he was running it up that's correct for sure no it was cool yeah so did that and that definitely i think was like probably the the nail in the coffin people really started to see like what the hell was going on so
somebody um you know basically called the county county came out and was like yo listen like you you can't be operating business from home like we don't care if you own the house no hoa we don't none of that stuff applies you can't can't do business from your house right
so kind of had like a crossroads moment you know because still pretty young
but it was really all that I'd ever done and spent my time on.
And I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Like, bro, like, I love, love the car stuff, love the culture.
And
I really was kind of like at a point where it was like, okay, am I going to A, you know, dive a little bit deeper and like, you know, go actually put my name down on a lease and, you know, hire some people and get a shop.
And it just kind of seemed like the right thing to do.
I remember like right before like having to make a decision.
I was getting fined every day by the county for not moving.
Right.
And I'm still kind of sitting on the sidelines trying to make a decision.
I'm looking at spots and I remember taking a vacation.
We went up to the mountains and just sat back and like
actually truly like reflected by myself for a little bit and like, you know, just thought on the situation like, okay,
if this is something you enjoy doing, right?
And you can actually make some money from it.
Like, I mean, this is literally what people spend their whole life, you know, chasing like this, this moment, you know, and that was kind of like a turning point for me where I was like, okay, I'm willing to, you know, invest more.
I'm willing to, you know,
turn it into something that it's not at the moment, you know, an official business.
And, bro, it was great.
It was dope.
It was, it was the greatest decision I could have ever made.
I spent the next probably month like dialing in a good spot.
Like, we, you know, we signed a lease somewhere, started moving things over, bro.
We pretty much got up and operational like within 24 hours of getting into a building
and hired on a couple of good friends and just
worked, bro.
Like, it just was.
Scared all the way up.
Yeah, yeah,
it was just a slow growth, but it was steady motion, constantly headed forward for sure.
Nice.
Yeah, it was a journey for sure.
And why did you decide to stick with the stuff you're doing instead of going into car rentals?
Man, that's a good point.
I really never thought of the rental game.
I think that that kind of started to become really popular after
the traction of where I was already headed.
You know, like we're talking like early 2019, you know, into the beginnings of 2020, really before, like, I feel like, I mean, obviously car rentals, and we worked with rental companies existed before, but I feel like rentals really kind of took off post-COVID.
It just kind of changed that industry a little bit more.
And
a lot of the cars and a lot of the stuff,
and this could have just totally been my scope of things, like it was slept on.
Like there was not really a lot of action in like, you know obviously there was the car customization shops like you could go somewhere and go get a stereo put in or you could go somewhere and go get your tinted you know what i mean but there wasn't like a lot of like you know like full-blown custom shops in 2014 15 16 like that wasn't really napsome wasn't a vegas thing it wasn't it definitely wasn't a vegas thing it was it was um possibly a California thing because a lot of the culture car culture stuff always kind of comes on most of them there so it could have been that but I feel like the rental space really didn't have its like initial like footing until you know mid-COVID and forward.
I could be wrong, but my take on it.
What do you feel like some of the worst cars are when it comes to exotics?
What are some of the worst exotics?
I'm in some opinions, bro.
I got some opinions.
If you start with, what's the top five bad exotics?
Top five.
Anything McLaren is, is, is just, I mean, they take top notch, bro.
Wow.
McLaren is number one.
McLaren is definitely number one.
Like, like, think of like a, you know, like a, an Instagram influencer that looks amazing online, right?
Everything is great, bro, and you get in it, or you get there, and it's just not what you thought it would be, bro.
The cars are janky, clanky,
buttons falling off.
They're just, they're just not it.
So I would definitely say McLaren.
Who was what's number two?
I'm personally not a big fan of Bentley
just because of
the price point that they kind of come in at and they just they devalue like terribly.
And they just, until more recently, their like their designs, their interior, everything was very outdated and kind of like old.
Like, it felt like an old man, you know,
right, right, right.
It didn't have, you know, like, if you're going to go Rolls-Royce, right, there's enough that sets a Rolls-Royce apart from everything else, yeah, that like it's okay if you got some wood grain and stuff, right?
Right, it's a Rolls-Royce, right?
You know, eventually it just doesn't, it doesn't hit the mark.
Um, and what's number three, man,
I want to say,
I mean, just for popularity, I I would say probably Aston Martin.
I'm not a big Aston Martin.
Real?
Bad car?
Just, just, again, kind of like
just junkie, bro.
Like, you get in it and you're like, man, like, this is not a $300,000 car.
Like, or it shouldn't be.
You know what I mean?
Like, it just doesn't feel like, you know, some of the other comparable supercars in that price range.
So I would say those are probably my top three.
And funny enough, they're all like English-built cars.
So I don't know if it's just, you know.
So what would be four or five?
That's hard, bro.
I mean, there's a lot of really nice exotic cars that have their like quirks that make you, you know, like, why is this car so expensive?
You know?
But I don't know, bro.
That, that's, that's a tough one.
I'll leave it at those three, bro.
We'll leave the other ones.
And which, which car app you came encounter with that made you nervous to touch?
I'm so nervous to even customize this car
so much.
There's been a handful.
It's expensive.
Yeah, there's been a handful.
Right now, we have an SVJ that's in the shop in Lamborghini and Ventador, but it's like their top tier at Venor.
No, how much are those?
600 around there, 6'7.
Wow, just for a car.
I know they're like 6'7, but like, talk about a couple of months ago,
they were a million dollars.
They went 800.
Well, yeah, I guess it depends on the bank.
They've come down.
No, they've come down a lot.
They just announced, Lamborghini announced a new Aventador replacement.
So
the market shoots
the Revolto or Revolto.
That's the Aventador replacement.
Yeah, basically, that's the Aventador replacement.
I mean, it looks really great, obviously.
Only seen it online.
But
the car is just spread.
It's a beautiful work of art and like when you look at it you can tell like
how intricate it is put together so like when you're wrapping it or you're doing body work or whatever you're doing to it like you're gonna take the whole car apart so like you know those cars can be really intimidating because you know one one mistake will cost you more than than what you were even charging for your job you know so those cars are nerve-wracking bro like it'll definitely it'll definitely um you know scare you a little bit for sure.
So in the watch industry, you got Rolly, you got Audemar Paget.
Yep, yeah.
you got Richard Milley.
Uh-huh.
In the luxury car space, who would you say are the top three?
Jeez, that's that's I mean, I'm biased, bro.
What do you deal with?
I've had so many different cars.
And you drive so many different.
What are you driving currently?
Believe it or not, I just sold, I have my Wraith.
I just sold the Rosalrus Wraith I had, and I just sold my Eurus.
So I actually.
Oh, you sold the Urus?
Yes, I did.
Yeah, I'm actually driving.
I have a truck, like a Silverato.
Oh, okay.
Oh, wow.
That's
all the way.
Yeah, yeah.
No, it's, I'm, I'm patiently waiting, bro.
I've been, I've been trying to, um,
you know, secure a couple different cars, but it's just that the market is really weird.
So it's like, I'm not, I definitely don't want to lose because there's nothing worse than you know, buying a, you know, a 300,000.
Yeah, you just, you don't want to, you don't want to buy at a really bad spot.
It's one of those things that's always, most of the time, is always going to go down.
It's just how much is it going to go down, you know?
So I'm trying to just buy the right car.
So I don't have anything at the moment, but to kind of tear them off, very biased.
So this is my opinion.
I would definitely place Lamborghini first.
Wow.
Bro, I love
Lamborghini.
Lamborghini, Lamborghini, or Audi Lamborghini?
Audi Lamborghini.
Lamborghini, bro, like the bang for your buck that you get out of these cars.
And they're high-performing cars that you don't feel scared driving.
Like they feel very secure.
They feel very sturdy.
They don't, you know, boost randomly like how you'll kind of get with McLarens and even the turboed Ferraris.
It's just a very
well, they're turboed cars, so they're not like so.
Most Lamborghinis are going to be naturally aspirated, no turbos.
They do have, you know, turboed options.
Uh, in the Euras, it's turboed, but for the most part, their cars are naturally aspirated.
And Ferrari used to do a lot of that as well, but you know, a lot of their new platforms are based off of turboed turboed engines.
Because they're going V6, yeah, yeah,
smaller engines, turbos.
They're even doing a lot of hybrid mixes.
So
They're trying to get in the economy market.
They have to, yeah, all manufacturers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
So
I would list Lamborghini at one just because drivability and looks, bro.
Like,
I love Ferrari.
Definitely love Ferrari, but it feels a little bit more old man-ish when you're in it.
Like,
it's an amazing driving-looking, beautiful car, but they can tend to feel like
old money cars, you know?
Yeah, that's what they are.
So I would say, I would say probably Lamborghini, Ferrari, and then to place a third one in there.
That's tough, bro.
Cause like when I let like when I'm looking at cars where I'm usually only looking at Lamborghini or Ferrari,
that's tough, man.
To place a nice third, you're probably gonna go to, you know, Rolls-Royce or something just because of like the sheer like level of respect that you get driving one.
Like
I had, did you ever see that all gray wraith?
Every inch of it, all gray rims.
I've seen it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like, what's that pewter gray?
Yeah, that pewter gray.
Yeah, it's called chalk gray.
It's like the car name for it.
But
just, bro, it's amazing.
Like, you pull up to either a valet or an event or really anywhere, bro.
And that car, like, the amounts of road respect that it gets is just top tier.
Like, there's really nothing
that says I'm here like a Rolls-Royce for sure.
So, so I would say those probably three for sure.
Those, those would be my three, top three for sure.
Yeah, yeah.
I've only seen the black Rolls Royces.
I didn't know there there was other colors.
Well, no,
he's talking about from a custom standpoint.
Yeah,
but I mean,
you can order them in pretty much any color.
A lot of these really high-manu, like high-end manufacturers will allow you to get really custom with the orders.
Like, you can order one-off interiors.
You can order, like, man, we've seen Cullenin's, the SUV Rolls-Royce.
But you can, I've literally seen ones with, like, right off of the factory line with pink interior and like all pink.
I'm talking about like every inch of it pink.
Greens, I've seen like you can
pay for whatever you like.
Like, these people will take your money however you want to give it to them.
Wow.
So, yeah, I mean, it's it, that's what kind of sets those kind of cars apart: is like you, you're, you have the capability of making something very custom and unique, you know, for yourself.
So,
you, I mean, you know, being a business owner, you're a full-fledged entrepreneur from day one,
what would you say, like,
because some people think it's easy, yeah.
How many hours are you working a week?
You know, it's crazy, bro.
There's some weeks where I, like, I legitimately, like, you know, you, you, you think to yourself in a moment, like, man, I would love to.
And you're the owner.
I'm the owner.
He's the owner.
So how many hours is the owner working?
Bro, there's some weeks, bro, where I want to hang it up and take a nine to five job because you're
a hundred hours into a work week, bro.
You're up at 5.30 and you're working until 7.30, 8 o'clock, 8.30 at night,
you know, missing meals and missing, you know, time with your family or your friends or whatever it is.
It's a very, very tough road that not a lot of people
really take into consideration what's required to get from A to B on that
journey to entrepreneurship.
And I mean, if you are a true entrepreneur, usually that journey never ends.
Like, there's really never a B, you know what I mean?
You're always kind of working towards the next thing that you're working on, you know?
So
that's tough, bro.
Like,
it's not for the weak-hearted, for sure, bro.
You could do 100 hours a week
easy, bro, for sure.
You just had a son.
So how are you able to balance that 100-hour week with the family?
How do you balance?
Is there a balance?
It's tough, no.
I mean,
you always hear that.
You always hear this work-life balance, and it makes you feel like you're lacking somewhere.
But I truly, truly don't believe that there's ever a real balance.
You just kind of have to give as much effort in every area of your life as you can, you know?
And I mean, if you're you know, a high achiever, you find ways to make the time or you squeeze it in.
Like, I mean, I know for sure, like, you know, I know my son's schedule, so I know when he's going to be up, when he's going to be in bed, so it's like finding ways to work my schedule around that schedule is right now how I'm finding time.
And, you know,
thankful enough that he's still so young that he won't, he won't maybe, you know, remember all the hours that I'm investing in it now, you know.
So I'm hoping that, you know, I can set better,
you know, things in place to help me maybe not spend as much time at work.
Not that, you know, that it's an issue for me at the moment, but
growing a family and things like that, you definitely want to be able to spend some time at home and
see your family for sure.
One of the things I love about the luxury car space is the networking.
Yeah, bro.
That's the greatest part of it for sure.
Like, I mean, I've met so many interesting people.
I met you through the car stuff.
I mean, like, I met Wayne through the car stuff.
You know, like, it's, it's such a great avenue because it's like cars are like an international language, bro.
Like, everybody speaks it.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, you can talk to, you know, Joe Schmo down the street that, you know, that, that just really loves his Camry.
And, you know, it's, it's cool to him.
And, you know, you can help him out in some type of way, whether it be something as small as, you know, window tinting or fixing a scratch on his car, whatever it is.
Like, everybody.
for the most part to a capacity cares about their vehicles and what they drive and it usually is a big you know imprint on who somebody is you know it usually says you know hey this is who i am this is what i like yeah you know so it's it's it's it's a great way to network for sure it's it's been uh uh a big door opener for me for sure like
i've so many cars and watches
yeah how you look you gotta have a nice appearance but your car and your watch no definitely absolutely gotta be there i want to start going to like car meetups and stuff just network yeah bro it's great you meet so many interesting people i also feel like when you have nice things it feels it feels like you've done something right or you have the answers to doing something right.
Yeah, that's the
assumption, the perception,
the persona.
It's an energy.
So I think that having nice things is always like people perceive you as LL.
Yeah.
He got the answers.
Yeah,
whether it be true or not.
Ask him.
You got it somehow, right?
You must know.
Right, exactly.
So I think it's important.
You've done a lot of celebrities, right?
Yeah, bro.
Been blessed enough to meet pretty much the entire Raiders team,
a bunch of NHL guys, local, not local,
you know, a bunch of the lower-tier celebrity people that like not a lot of people are familiar with their names, but you know, they have big impact in their space.
You know, so
it's been really cool to just hear all the different like life journeys and life stories, bro.
It makes you realize that, you know, there's not just one way, there's not just one answer.
Like,
there's a million different avenues and paths that you could take to get to, you know, your end end game,
whatever that may be.
But it's just interesting, bro.
You'll meet people that, like, you're like, wait, you did what?
You did how?
I remember when I met you and Al, and it was like,
like, wait, you.
What?
You guys are what?
A board?
You know what I mean?
It just, it, it just, it makes you realize, like, bro, there's, there's a billion different things that you could do to find your own little path.
Like you said, it's a universal language.
Cars brings people together, man.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
So what's your flagship service?
Because I saw on your site you do like so many different things.
Like, what are you known for?
Yeah, I mean,
I would like to say wraps, vinyl wraps, just because it's fun.
It's my favorite part of the job.
Obviously, you know, we do the body work, collision repair, the small touches, chrome deletes, wheels, calipers, that type of stuff that, you know, it's still cool, but it gets very redundant.
You've done it once, you did it a million times.
The vinyl stuff is constantly being innovated.
There's new products, there's new colors, there's new cars coming out.
So it's just fun, bro.
Like, that would be my favorite part of the job, I would say, flagship service.
Just because it's interesting, bro.
Like, it's, you, you, you almost never are doing the same thing.
Obviously, there's the satin black that you do a million times, but you know, for the most part, it looks good.
You can't go wrong with it.
You can't go wrong with it, bro.
I feel like green is emerging right now.
Green is emerging.
Orange.
Orange is definitely been on the come up.
Green and orange have definitely been hype colors for the last seven, eight months for sure.
What green, though?
Like that mama green, like that very, yeah, that very like aggressive, viper, you know, like, yeah, like a very deep green.
Like, it's, it's, it's definitely a vibe right now for sure.
What are some ugly, some ugly cars?
You actually, you did them, but it was an ugly car.
You don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
Oh, my God.
I hurt him.
I don't know who's listening, so I definitely don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
Right, yeah.
Um, no, people have had some, but you had some ugly concepts.
Oh, man.
Have any, have you refused to do it?
Because it's just like, no, I can't look at this all the time.
No, no, no, no, never refuse them no i've had some very interesting ones man like interesting no no no and and and and i i say interesting and i really genuinely mean that because like you know the customer will still come and pick it up and they're usually over the top excited about whatever they picked out put together you know and so for me that's just as exciting as seeing something that like i might not necessarily like but like you put it together and you're like holy this is a this is something you know what i mean like we just had we just had a tesla the other day man this thing was like at first i didn't quite understand understand the vision, right?
I'm not a big, like a Marvel guy or like, you know, like, like
superhero concepts, right?
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not really one for that.
Um, and initially, there was really no, like, he didn't say, like, hey, this is going to be a themed car.
Like, he just dropped off this blue Tesla Model Y.
And he was like, yo, like, listen, I want every inch of this car that's not blue painted red.
Like, I'm talking about all the plastics, all the emblems, all the chromedly.
Like, I wanted everything.
I want it all red, like just bright gloss red.
And I'm like,
okay, yeah, yeah, sure.
Like, let's like, let's do it, right?
No, no, no, no.
Like, take these pieces off and make them permanently red.
Wow.
I'm like, okay, like, cool.
Like, let's do it.
You know, big job.
Several thousand dollars.
You're taking stuff off.
You're going to keep it for a while.
And, bro, we put this car together and it's just like, it's there.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, you can't miss this thing.
It's all red.
It's blue and just red, you know?
Rims are red.
Everything is red.
So a guy comes to look at it and he loves it, bro.
He's like just over the top about it.
I'm like, you know, great.
Like as long as you love it, it's you know, awesome.
He's like, I just want to add one more thing on the car, you know, like to tie it all in together.
And it ended up bringing the vision together, but he had us put like these red spider webs on the on the windows.
Oh, and I'm like, oh, okay, so Spider-Man themed, I guess, you know, so like,
you get some really odd requests, you know, but but first, like, bro, he was so happy to pull off in his car, you know, it was the exact way that he was envisioning it in his head, you know, so there's not really any
one thing that we're like, oh, no, no, we won't do that, or you know, so it's it's it's interesting to see what you know, people come up with.
Um,
you know, not everything is gonna be your taste, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Yep, yep, what's the next move for you?
Where do you see this going?
It's that's that's been something that I've been kind of pondering a lot lately.
I teamed up with a company called Shine, um, which they do with exotics, rentals, that type of stuff, more just normal, everyday fleet rentals as well.
And um, he's been in my ear heavy about Arizona.
Arizona's been like, you know,
it's an up and coming spot.
I mean, it's, you know, Phoenix, Scottsdale, like.
Migration there.
Bro, yeah, lots of people.
Lots of people are headed there.
It's a cool place to be.
I've got
customers out there.
They don't have the customers.
They don't.
They don't.
They're definitely behind on
the customization scene.
When you kind of, you know, do a quick overview of the custom shops that are out there and stuff.
There's really not much
innovative, cool stuff, exotic stuff that's coming out of there.
And even Vegas is still relatively new.
Like, you know, a lot of the stuff comes from California, works its way here.
And then there's only like a handful of you guys that actually do good work, though.
True, yeah.
There's a bunch of people that have seen the power of what this type of business can do and that are starting to dabble in it.
By no means professionals or operating at a high level.
But
I think Arizona is going to be the next move.
We're looking at some spots out there.
Are you already looking?
We are.
Yeah, yeah.
So he's for sure moving the rentals out there, we're for sure doing a rental branch out there.
Um, but the rentals and the wrap, customization, repair stuff kind of go hand in hand.
I mean, a lot of people don't do all that at the same spot, yeah, yeah.
So, we're looking at some spaces, but definitely don't want to move into something without having you know all of the stuff laid out first.
I got enough on my plate, so it's like what part of Arizona Scottsdale is
gonna be the area,
it's just such a
cool area to be, yeah.
Um, and it's like you said, bro, it's it's it's emerging, it's up and coming.
like there's there's people going there every day so will you be back and forth or move out there i think i think realistically off the off the bat like right off the rip to start things off i'd spend a little bit of time out there but um bro i i love vegas and i i can't imagine myself relocating out there you know for much of anything bro like i i would like to just kind of make it you know a quick stop get things set up and organized and and and and keep my keep my momentum going out here for sure what about miami and la or is it too saturated yeah yeah both places are are great places for the industry and um i've had a couple of opportunities to go to the like la surrounding areas um with you know a couple of investors and people that were interested in the space but um
again it's just so hard to make a way out there um not that it's not possible but yeah bro it's it's already a really popular market out there there's there's there's custom shops on on you know every corner every corner every city yeah there's
there's there's lots of there's lots of momentum out there already um not that you couldn't go out there and you know find your own
people to deal with.
But I think I would probably avoid those areas just because enough people have already done them that I feel like the work would be a lot more hard out there as opposed to
maybe one of these smaller spots that still has a lot of traction, but is not
quite where Vegas or California or Miami would be at for that type of stuff.
Are you hydro dipping anything yet?
No, bro.
That stuff is really cool, but
it's just basically, it's equivalent to kind of what he's doing already, but it's a liquid form, and it's liquid.
It's not for big pieces, it's more for like one-all, yeah.
And they actually are creating machines that you can do like massive pieces of it too now.
But it's basically like picture like a big dunk tank
that you put these like um films at the top, film.
Yeah, I don't know the best way to describe it other than like a film, like a translucent film.
You could take a shoe, uh,
whatever, and you dip it in, dip it in, you come out.
People do it with shoes, right?
People do it with all types of stuff.
Yeah, it's really cool.
Um, it's the machinery is a little expensive to do it for a lot of stuff, um, and there's not a huge demand for it.
I don't know if it's just because people don't know about it or what, but like it's kind of like where you were with the classy with the classy dip, yeah, yeah, yeah, years ago, yeah.
So it's like, I don't know if it just really hasn't hit its boom or what yet, but there's not a lot of request for it.
So the investment into it just hasn't been really enough demand to make that move.
But
Christian, it's been fun talking to you, man.
Yeah, absolutely, bro.
We're done already.
We're done.
Out of time, quick, bro.
Any
closing words of wisdom?
No, no, bro.
I mean,
any entrepreneurs or people out there like on a on a on a path towards, you know, working towards, you know, whatever it is that floats your boat, you know, just don't give up.
You know, the typical words that you'll hear from everybody on that same journey, like, you just gotta gotta keep working through the tough times and keep working away at whatever you can, bro, and keep your forward momentum.
Don't stop for nothing.
Where can they find you and follow you?
And if they want to get their cars done, yeah las vegas uh pretty much the only spot now um but uh we're we're uh we're we're located centrally in vegas dipped out of works on all social medias um and uh christian beckerly reach out to me i'm the owner i can definitely help out for for any of the questions and uh i'm i'm here for it i think people are gonna feel aware about this top three worst cars i i can't wait till we get that
too yeah for sure yeah there's people that love mclearn so yeah yeah but there's people i've heard a lot of horror stories.
I heard off the lot into the
backbone to the dealership.
I had a really high-end customer, a 765LT, like pretty much as high-tier as you can go without buying P1.
Less than 1,200 miles on the car, engine just totally blew.
Yeah.
You're talking about a $500,000 car that, you know, that even if they're going to, you know, fix and replace and change out for you, you're still dropping some of the car.
I don't think Mercedes has made, like, kind of done, I think they're kind of rushing it, but you know, because McLaren and Mercedes are together on that, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, no, and I love a lot of the new stuff that Mercedes is doing, too.
Um, you know, all the new interior redesign stuff is top-notch, um, and they're affordable, bro.
Like, like, a lot of these, like, nice, high-end stuff that, you know, used to seem unobtainable.
Like, I mean, you can get really nice vehicles from Mercedes, BMW for 100 grand, you know.
Wow, so they've definitely come up a lot on that.
Sir, Quinn,
thank you guys for watching the digital social hour.
Go visit Dip Auto Works.
Yes, sir.
Tune in, guys.
See you next time.
Peace.