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Hello and welcome to episode 120 of Gutter2Gutter podcast.
In this episode I'm joined by Cam Scory.
Cam owns and operates Hustlin Auto Detailing out of Tatra in regional Victoria.
After chatting back and forth with Cam for a long time on social media it was
great to be able to pay him a visit and get this episode recorded face to face
on what is probably the busiest intersection in Tatra, which I'm sure
you'll hear in this episode. In this episode we got to hear about how Cam
started out in detailing and how he went from working for a dealership to
taking the leap and opening his own business and later on moving into a
workshop of his own. We got to hear about Cam moving from Shepardon to Puppen
New Guinea when he was only a week old and what it was like early on in life
trying to make friends when you're surrounded by arm security guards. After
that Cam was moved into regional New South Wales in Blaney without any more
arm security guards where he would live until he's 10 years before moving back
home to regional Victoria. We also got to hear about how Cam moved to Perth for a
girl he met online which ultimately led him to start detailing and marry his
wife before moving back to regional Victoria again. Cam has a really cool
story and I'm glad I got the opportunity to sit and talk with him for this
episode. That's just a brief summary of this episode without giving too much away.
So with all of that said I hope you enjoy episode 120 with Cam's story of
Hustlin Auto Detailing on Gutter2Gutter podcast.
Hello everyone welcome to another episode of Gutter2Gutter podcast I'm
Static and in this episode we are joined by Cam's story from Hustlin Auto
Detailing. Cam how are you mate? I'm good great to be here. Thank you so much for
having me in this pretty cool workshop. Glad to have you and let's have some fun.
Yeah yeah so I guess mate we'll start off with the normal sort of intro give us a
bit of a run rundown of who you are and what you do. Cam's story from Hustlin
Auto Detailing we started the business in 2010 back in Perth. I was detailing for
a dealership I know detailers don't like to say that but it is what it is and
needed some spare cash so I started doing detailing on the weekend as well
and yeah stayed part time for a while went back to my original background's
management with big supermarkets got sick of all their shit as everyone kind of
does and went full ball with this and haven't looked back since. Yeah nice nice
so I guess starting in Perth and now we're in sort of I guess you'd call this
sort of country Victoria. Yeah nice regional Victoria. Yeah nice regional
area so how did that come about? I'm originally from the area so the
workshops 10 minutes from Shepardon and I was born in Shepardon moved around a
lot as a kid with dad's work and overseas and everything and was stuck in
a rut in Perth and the wife suggested why don't we move back to regional Victoria
she's a country girl as well and that was in 2015 haven't looked back. Yeah nice
so what's that 2015 that's eight years ago now and loving it here loving it
yeah so you started out detailing for a dealership. Yep I guess give us a bit of
a run a lot what was what was the reasoning behind getting into detailing
and was was that like a thing that you wanted to do from school or do you kind
of fall into it? I always remember as a kid helping dad on a Saturday morning
before we went to football or on a Sunday helping him keep his cars clean and I
always enjoyed it and as soon as I got my first cars I was at the servo car wash
you know cleaning it every week and find out I'm doing it the wrong way and
actually doing damage to my car but and then yeah I was doing management with
supermarkets and met a girl through the old forum days showing my age there the
car ute forums and she was in Perth and I went well I need to see change oh you
know why not just pack up your things and move across the country for someone
you've just met yep and didn't have a job when I got to Perth and I was like
well I'll find something and one of her friends rang and said oh I'm at a Mazda
dealership we need a we need someone does you know Cam looks after keeps his stuff
clean and he interested and jumped in and within probably the first week I
went I actually really enjoy this and then built on it from there and learnt
more and more and yeah right there's something to be said I know like people
kind of might hear that I met someone online sort of thing and go whatever but
there's something to be said about meeting people online like you get the
truer version of themselves and and you get that without any judgment from
yourself you know what I mean like a lot of the times will sort of meet someone
if we meet them face to face you're seeing them before you speak to them
and you kind of there's already a judgment there before you before you
speak to someone but online you're kind of getting for the most part you're
getting like the truer version of someone and you're making a better
judgment of them before you see them essentially you get to know their
character before their looks so I mean especially the forum days they the
profile pic was usually either their car or you know you might see a photo of
them but that's all you've got you don't you're not walking in like a normal
blind date where you're like the first thing you see is their looks and then
you got to work out oh she's hot but got the personality of a wooden door so at
least yeah the old forum days and insight you could get to know and we'd talk to
fair bit like then you add each other on Facebook then you start texting and
calling so we'd talk to fair bit it's just we'd only met in person and being
together for probably six days I moved across the country right that's that's
pretty cool we've been together for three months and yeah yeah right right so
still together today still together happily married with a family so so you
moved over to WA for that and then to pursue your career I guess so what give
us the the sort of rundown like how did that go from dealership to then like a
side thing and then starting hustling within probably the first month of
being at the dealership my in-laws were like oh I need my car done yeah well I'll
bring home some stuff from work and do some cashies and then they tell people
and then after six months at the dealership Woolworths came knocking and
said hey would you like to come back for a management position I said well this
is my price and strangely they agreed to it which yeah so I went straight back
into 70 80 hour weeks management and then detailing on my days off did that for
another couple of years and then yeah got got sick of them so went out and then
started doing some subcontractor work for dealers so they would I would invoice
them for doing their trade-ins or their paint protection jobs they would pass it
on and then and then I got to the point where I was like no I'm just gonna do my
own thing and then yeah we were sick of Perth and it's beautiful but it's just
expensive and we were both stuck in a rut we had an 18 month old yeah we had an
18 month old and just as life happens you get in those bits of ruts and we knew
we were never gonna get ahead in Perth and get a house and so we're like no
what let's move back to our country roots and there were no detailers in the
if you wanted to cut and polish you went to a panel shop and it was getting to
the points where insurance jobs got more important so it wasn't panel shops
weren't interested so that was another defining point to move back was there's
no one in the area I can I can have the foothold in the area and build from
there and yeah nice so when when was that that was 2015 we moved back July
2015 so yeah so you came back and and opened this up straight away no I was
mobile for probably 12 months yeah and then linked up with a friend who is a
mechanic and subleased off him a section of his workshop and then it just I
needed more room he needed more room the dust was annoying so we were started
looking and then this building popped up just over three years ago and is this
intersection in town so I was stupid to knock it back absolutely it's um it's a
cool little spot hey like you've got the your showroom out the front your
offices and then like this workshop which is fairly spacious you know what I
mean like you got plenty of room to do what you need and it's a fairly old
building I think it was originally built in the 60s right so it's been a
tractor dealership for a while yeah and then servo on and off for 20 odd years
and then it's set sat vacant for 10 years because the fuel tanks were leaking
yep so sat vacant for 10 also use and then a couple of small engine mechanics
moved into here and then they moved out and I've been here since nice so yeah
busiest intersection in the area you're saying yesterday I came in and had a
quick visit yesterday you're saying that someone took out the front corner of the
shop yep someone got fuel and drove off in their truck and got too close to the
building didn't realize and took out probably five meters of the building out
the front so the the front showrooms now got a nice 45 degree wall on one side
yep adds a bit of character to the building absolutely and it gives you a
nice nice open spot to sort of put your signage and show off to everyone it
does it really makes that signage pop yeah yeah for sure take us right back
mate where was it you grew up so you grew up around this area so I was born in
Shepparton when I was a week old straight on a plane to Papua New Guinea
right my dad ran the Maggie two-minute noodles factory there wow okay and he
was on a contract so we were there so for the first five years of my life I
lived in New Guinea in a compound opened my eyes a lot as I grow older and I can
remember back things it explains how I think about like society and stuff because
I we lived in a nice compound because the company owned but dad was deemed a
person of interest so anywhere we went outside the compound which had three
foot reinforced concrete walls with barbed wire to security guards at the
gate anytime dad went out he had an armed security guard with him anytime mom
me my brother went out even if it was just shopping we had a security guard
with us so if I wanted to play at the park across the road with the other
kids me my brother were pretty much the only white kids in town and yeah
security guard I have to follow us to the park that's a bit hard to play hide
and seek with the local kids when you got a guy with a shotgun following you
around but it does open your eyes up to the world and well it's a double-edged
sword right you're like oh he's over there but there's a guy there with a
shotgun I don't want to go there and then in 1994 the contract was up so dad
moved back to Australia and he got a position at Frisky's pet food owned by
Nestle as well at Blaney yeah so we lived in orange because Blaney's cold and a
hellhole anyone who's been there or lived there will vouch for that yep
orange is not much better at least there's things to do with this thing to do
yeah you're right so we lived in orange for 12 years yeah till I was 16 so and
then dad had been with the company 27 years so he got a redundancy and yeah
all my grandparents and everyone are all in the area down here so mum and dad
decided they wanted to move back here to be closer to their parents as they got
older see I was 16 16 and a half we we moved back here and I jumped straight
into full-time night shift at Woolies I had been an apprentice butcher through
the first six months of year 11 and then when we were moving down here Woolworth
didn't the store local store wasn't big enough to have an apprentice butcher so I
had to give that away otherwise that would have been my first calling and
then started doing night shift and did that till I was 18 then got an
apprenticeship as a mechanic did that till I was 20 and a half it wasn't a
very good place to work I'm still friends with a lot of people from there but it
just wasn't and it was a case of do I stick out 18 months and get my ticket
and hate the industry never want to touch a car again or do I just cut my
losses and leave and cut my losses and left and then as I left there that's
when I started talking to my wife so I just it all worked and then yeah 2010
moved to Perth yeah right so what was like life like over in Perth compared to
sort of here oh the weather's amazing it's there's no winter effectively like
it's it doesn't rain a lot it's it's some of the best scenery in in the
country just expensive they think everyone's on mining money and they're
so and I loved it there I had no plans on ever coming back it's just yeah we had
a discussion at home one day and wife wasn't happy and she wanted to get
out into the country and she's travelled a lot when she was younger like with
jobs made a suggestion like well look at work like it's it's smart I didn't want
to take her away from her family because all of her families in Perth so she
made the call and we move back here yeah nice it's one thing I've been over to
Perth a few times and every single time like myself and my wife go over or have
been over there quite a bit but every single time we get there we go straight
to the closest beach yeah we can watch the sunset over the ocean because
obviously on the east side we don't get that we watch it come up over the ocean
if we could be asked getting up that early yeah true but yeah I don't know
there's something really really cool about just watching the sunset over the
ocean I drink in a hand or whatever and then the person you love next year it's
really cool so did you sort of spend much thought did you do that sort of
thing at all or was that a thing for you yeah we did a lot of that and
travelling around and we were both in the ute scene so we went to a lot of
B&S balls so we'd we'd go out into the country like out to queriding and
Calgoolee and all those sort of places and go to B&S balls and enjoy it
she's a busy intersection huh it is you don't realize how busy it is here until
you until you're here especially on a Saturday morning yeah yeah cool man um
did you get into any sports at all I did I I'm a huge AFL fan although I get
picked on for that especially living in New South Wales for all those years so I
love nearly every sport so I love AFL love NRL I got into that when I was
living living there and I picked my team because of the girl I had the hots for
she was really into the Bulldogs and at that in the early 2000s they were
actually pretty good I'm like yeah very true very true so I was like I'll stuff
following Canterbury Bankstown and it's been lean run for a while yeah so I was a
Bulldogs fan as well as a kid my father was massive in the football I kind of
because of who he was and who my uncle was as well in the football in sort of
the Western Sydney area I don't know I felt like I was expected to play
football so I did for a little while like when I was very young I think under
eights might have been the last time I played maybe when I came we moved up to
Coffs Harbour for a while then came back and after that I kind of I think I played
like half a season with this with the school I was at and yeah I just because
I felt that not so much pressure I don't think my father ever actually put
pressure but I felt pressure to play from then hated it hated it but Bulldogs was
my team when I did enjoy it yeah I love my NFL my gridiron yeah cricket motor
racing I don't know last two three years I found it hard I used to always watch
every supercars race at the moment I probably watched the Formula One race
yeah Bathurst and Gold Coast that's about it really it's hard it's I've
tried to sit there and watch an F1 race and I can't do it I think I fell asleep
like this doesn't do anything for me V8 not so much either you know I can't
definitely can't take away from the skill and whatever else behind driving
those cars and in the team environment and what's involved in making those
things happen is amazing I just can't get into them no matter how hard I try
that's me with Indy car like I love Formula One Indy car I'd watch when they
used to come to the Gold Coast I'd watch that and then that like Indianapolis 500
other than that I'm like oval racing does nothing for even Speedway I'm not a
big fan of Speedway I like Speedway watch it yeah I'm not wouldn't say I'm not
enjoying myself I enjoy Speedway if I'm there watching it because you know you
got the thrills the spills the big cart wheels that the cars do and when
things go wrong you got the mud that can like flicks out through the fence out
yeah it's pretty cool I think last time when I took my daughter and we were
collecting whatever mud hit us yep we're just making this like little mud ball
and seeing who could get the biggest mud ball out of what hit us so that was a
cool little game to play with the kids as well but yeah I don't know it's very
hard to follow motorsports as a whole at the moment
agreed and I played sport at school so yep enjoyed it and then when we were
moving now we'd move down here and I start I took a couple years off because
I was working night shift as a 16 year old I couldn't get to training and my
roster was Wednesday to Sunday so I couldn't go to games and then when I
turned 18 and became an apprentice mechanic I started playing under like 18s
on a permit and then I got stress fractures in my ankle and there's no
quick fix for them so I sat out some footy and then I moved to Perth and I
was focused on setting up a life there and it was until we moved back here
I started playing AFL again and now the body just won't let me doesn't like it
no and I started pulling out a contest because I was afraid of work yeah I'm
like this is gonna hurt if this does my shoulder or I can't work I can't make
money so I was like I shouldn't be out there if I'm like I'm not helping my
teammates I might be winning the ball but I'm not helping my teammates if I'm
pulling out a contest so now I just stick to the admin side of sport but
yep so you're still involved now still evolve VP of my local club yeah it's
across the road from my house yeah help with coaches I'm a sponsor yeah major
sponsor coming up so it's I'm still involved in lots of sport I just don't
play it yep yeah I had a similar story that with BMX when it came to sort of
work and all that sort of year like I broke my collarbone real early into my
apprenticeship and that slowed me down a lot but I think four weeks after I did
that was the GT World Nationals in Penrith like it was yep you know the each
my home track so I couldn't not go to it and I couldn't not take my bike of
course and I couldn't race so I didn't but I'm like a king of dirt you know like
I'm okay at dirt jumps I I've never really hurt myself doing that I haven't
come off and yeah then you start trying a few different things and you're like
okay well yeah this is feeling pretty comfortable I can feel it feeling pretty
good so I'll just try out through a 360 which was that was my staple trick I
could do them off just about everything and I just landed wrong sort of came
off just tumbled one the very first thing you learn on a BMX is how to fall
off it tumbled straight back up to my feet so it was almost like a commando
roll over my shoulder but it was the broken collarbone and it yeah only four
weeks so it had only just sort of connected itself back together and I
felt a pop as I went over and as I stood up that thought that there was a like a
flutter of sorts and I went oh I felt I remember what that is and someone came
over because I kind of just stood up went just just stood still for a while
someone comes over and they're like are you okay I'm like yeah yeah I'm good I
just broke my collarbone they're like what and I think back to that now like
some of you probably should have done something to help but I do I got on my
bike I went and picked up my bike up with the one hand that worked because I
couldn't really hold any weight with this one I got on my bike and I rode
home one handed the whole way which is probably about 10k's at the time
rode home and just oh well yeah I guess I just lay on my bed now so for the next
four weeks I was like laying on that so I'd prop one side up with pillows while
I was sleeping and just lay on that so I'd hold try and hold it straight but
then I still had to go to work yeah that I did that on the Sunday I went to work
on the Monday and I tell you what I'm you know like I'm up a ladder with a
hammer drill yeah oh the boys wouldn't have looked after you they would have
gone you already heard it you should have known better I told nobody I told
nobody they knew I'd just come back four weeks earlier from my broken collarbone
so I told nobody that I just redone it but sitting on top of that ladder with a
hammer drill just going through absolute hell I'm sitting there looking at the
ground going if I could just fall off this then I've got a reason to have more
time off work that I like I can't do that it's dodgy as and I never ended up
doing it but yeah that was hell absolute hell and then I broke it again
another four weeks later that was my sister's fault so three times in three
months I broke a collarbone it's not a fun one it's not fun at all the first
time it sort of healed back you know like if that's my collarbone it healed back
perfect yep the second time kind of did those ones like it overlapped a little
bit and came in and the third one was like that so if you look at it now I've
still got like a mad bump there and it yeah kind of my collarbone goes
like that and like that and when I got a tattoo here my mate that was doing it
he's trying to he's putting a stencil on and he's looking he's standing back
looking at it he's like something's not right like I can't figure out what it is
like he's had a couple of goes at it I went hmm what about if I told you this
shoulder sits down an inch and in an inch he's like yep that's it yep said
yeah I broke my collarbone three times told in the whole story he's like yeah
that's it said so your stencils good trust me it's me not you yeah it's me
yeah so that was fun good times but um yeah definitely that's sort of having to
give something up because of work yep I feel your pain for sure dream cars man
have you had dream cars growing up when I was younger it was an XY Falcon I've
got all the photos like when dad was a p-player he had a he had a phase two that
he'd bought that it someone to put a bigger motor in it so that you know it
had a cow scoop on it and I think back now going who does that till phase two
when they were not that old and then he got rid of that when he met mom and
bought an XB GT so I grew up around my old Falcons and dad's friends had old
Holden so I grew up around them too but I just I just love the look of her you
know an XY now as I've gotten older it's 33 Ford 33 Ford and that or a at the
moment I'm partial to 64 impalas yeah very nice very nice so why the 33 Ford
as opposed to like a 32 or 34 which are the more common ZZ top okay that is why
yeah the only I think I was about 11 when I discovered them and the Eliminator
album and you know so give me all your lovin and sharp dressed man and all that
and yeah just watching Channel V on a weekend but who remembers Channel V huh
yeah and you know that every now and then they put on like the videos and you
see this red Ford number oh just and that's stuck with me yeah right yep so
either that or a 64 impala which I mean and I've said really that's come on I've
always had a soft spot for them but the last couple couple of years I've got
friends who are and customers who are in the low riders so I've been around this
beautiful Lincoln here and I've been around them whether it's on hydraulics
or bags but I've been around and I'm like yeah the price for a 64 yeah what I've
not kept up what what are they sort of looking at at the moment for something
that's tidy probably had a re like a refurb in the last 20 years so it's
fresh but not depending on how much rust is in anywhere from 50 to 80 and that's
before and like that's standard you might get one for around 70 to 80 that's
you know got bags in it but it might have rust in the seals or in the floor so
and that's that's for a hard top if you wanted a convertible you're looking
close to 100 yep so either one of those dream cars how attainable are they for
you they are if I really want to I'm focusing on other I'm putting a lot of
my profits from the business the last four or five years back into the business
to grow it I want to buy a house when I was younger I was never good with money
I was earning good money but I just pissed it up against the wall nothing
stupid or anything but I'd you know you just but oh yeah I want that bang just buy
not thinking well do I really need it so now I'm yeah trying to get a house and
then decide whether I have a home workshop or keep this building so they're
both attainable it's just really I'd like to have I'd like to have one before
my 40th so I'm only 34 at the moment yeah a little bit of time there plus I've
got so many customers with nice cars that I can just borrow them as case
important as Lincoln behind us I'm taking it to a wedding this afternoon
because the owner's not available so that scratches that itch like and as long
as I bring it back clean logbook filled out you know they don't care and I've
got ten other cars I can do that I'm like hey I'm going to a car show and
said I want to promote the business or some of the products can I borrow the
can I borrow the car you know I'll give it a detail and I'll bring it back clean
too and all that and I yep so that kind of scratches that itch yeah yeah so what
are some of the cars you've got access to like quickly like that 67 fastback
Mustang that's pro-charged and yep 63 and parlor wagon nice 50 I don't know
what exactly you're in the 50s but a Buick yep this Lincoln couple of like
old H. J. Kings woods minaros XY Falcons I've got yeah so yeah you've got
that you got that base there that's really cool and the XY which you're
kind of yeah it's not just having to worry about the repayments on it yep
how good is that so good it yeah playing with other people's money that's the
guy yes yeah hell yeah that's really cool man first car talk to us about first
cars I learnt to drive in an O2 Lancer the droid body kit no it's 18's yuck so
this would have been 0506 a sex spec was still still a thing I look back the
car was terrible it was mums and I you know she was looking to buy just a
little run around like a little you know because my brother was my brothers
four years older so he was 18 19 he had his own cars out so it was only really
mum dad me so she's like I just want like a little two-door you know hatchbacky
thing to run around and we're driving around the car yards one day and I see
this Lancer and the dealership had put you know these shitty 18's on it a full
droid body kit and all this and it was stand that's what a 1.8 litre four
cylinder manual thing was gutless as fuck perfect car to learn in like manual
and everything but I saw this body kit and I was like mom mom you gotta buy
this you gotta buy this good buy this and so she did and then yeah learn to
drive that and then the first car I bought was a EL Falcon GLI so it had a
few K's on it but one of my friends that only had it for six months and he'd
bought it off his grandparents who were the only owners lowered it welded the
diff all things P-platers do and then you know put a stereo in it it was worth
more than the car standard of the time I guess yeah had that for probably six
months taught my brother how to do burnouts in it because he'd always had
front wheel drive cars so I taught my brother how to do burnouts in it and
then we sold that and I got a BA Falcon Ute and then that was where my love of
Utes went from there and I had a few after that yeah right so I guess talk us
talk us through the Utes the BA Falcon two different VS Utes I love VS
Commodore's the six-cylinder that I shaved everything on hard lid 20s
stereo then I moved to Perth and I found a series 3s exec V8 Ute that a
tradie had and this was 2010 and it was a 2000 model so that the VT the roller
cam engine and it only done 105,000 K's and I'm like hell yeah and it was white
as well so I just went into the dealer and said oh I don't give a shit what
trading you give me on mine but I'm taking everything off mine I'm putting
on that so I had the same yeah the exact same went to work in the morning with a
six-cylinder VS Ute and came home with a five liter and it looked exactly the same
and then couple of just like bought an XH Ute was gonna fix that up and someone
offered me money for it and I'm like sat there for three months haven't touched
it yet bang and just a few other shit heaps as we all do so your first car
remind me what that was EL Falcon so give us a story behind the purchase of
that car I wanted a rear-wheel drive so I could do better yeah and some reason
bigger yeah the um the Lancer borrowing it at that by that time mom was wanting
to sell the Lancer to get something bigger again which didn't make sense that
now the kids are out of the house she wants a big car again and having a little
hatchback can't fit a lot of girls in the car so why not get a sedan yeah and
can have more fun rear-wheel drive and it was 600 bucks for the car and then I
took it to get a roadworthy and it cost me three grand to get a roadworthy is it
they always end up costing yeah you think you're saving you think you save
the money but you don't that's cool so 600 bucks you would have just saved that
up pretty quickly or you would have had that money already yep and then you get
hit with that bill that was Bank of Dad of hey dad like I was on night shift then
I was making 800 a week take home as a 788 any just you know and because my
roster was Wednesday to Sunday I couldn't go to any party so I wasn't
wasn't really spending money so I just said dad oh can you you know can you pay
the three grand in the mechanic and I'll just fix you up over the next month he's
like yeah so yeah that's good remember when I started my apprenticeship it was
like six or seven days a week and ten hour days or ten or twelve hour days so
there was no time to go spend the money that I was earning and as an apprentice
as a first-year apprentice I was earning a really good money because I was doing
that over time so I come out of that like the month or two that I did that
for I just had a bulk amount of money and I know I could have probably bought
myself a car at the time really easily without money I ended up buying a
PlayStation and a bunch of like I think it was like two or three grand that I
had I went and spent it all at what was it at the time wasn't EB it was
something else it was like games men or something like that yeah so you spent a
lot there in one night yeah that felt worth it I should have kept that falcon
but I just turned 18 was doing night shift and this you popped up I went and
got mum and dad because I just turned 18 the bank wouldn't give me the loan even
with mum and dad as guarantor so they they took out the loan in their name and
I had a written agreement with mum and dad this is how much and then I got the
and I'd always wanted to be an apprentice mechanic so I then six months later or
so I got offered the job and I went from 800 bucks a week take home doing night
shift to 200 bucks a week take home as a first-year apprentice and my repayment
was 180 bucks a week oh so I was working yes seven till 430 at the dealership and
then I went back to Woolies and I was working in the bottle shop from 5 to 10
yeah and then if they were short staffed you know once I knocked off if not you
know night shift was short staff because that was back when they did night
night shift he did 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. yep so you know if someone didn't knock
turn up for a shift or something they'd be like hey do you want to stay back for
a couple more hours please so I was doing seven till midnight to kind of be back
on the same way jobs making yeah ouch ouch so you went from the Falcon yep because
you wanted to put all the girls in it to a ute do we had you had enough of girls
then or um too many no I got into B&S balls and there's more room in the
Tri over ute for a swag than there is in the backseat of a EL Falcon more room
for activities yes yeah yep and it's a bit more appealing to a young up and
coming to say do you want to come back to my ute then do I come back to the
backseat of my 96 Falcon yeah we'll leave that one there I think yes nice so I
guess where did your love of cars come from my dad he always had nice cars
growing up he was never a big modifier of cars he'd he'd put a set of wheels on
them lower it exhaust tint and that was about all like he wasn't you know going
and putting stereos in them or you know engine work but he always had nice cars
and he changed the joys of him working so hard with his management job is he
turned them over every three or so years as well too so I was just always around
nice stuff and dad was big into like they're going out Sydney Motor Show
at Darling Harbour like going to that every year he was into bike racing too
so we'd go to Oren Park and watch the old Australian Superbikes and then he
loved Formula 1 so yeah we'd road trip from Orange down to Melbourne and go to
the Formula 1 so I was always around cars just not modifying them yeah I I
absolutely miss like the Sydney Motor Show that used to be so good at the
exhibition center there but if you weren't there now I don't know if you've
been there in a lot for a while but I think it was around 2012, 2013, 14
somewhere around there they completely redid the exhibition center it's been
completely rebuilt yeah I've been there since the rebuild and yeah you wouldn't
even recognize it today but yeah out the front like you know you used to go
through the exhibition center then they'd have stuff out the front they'd
have like a four-wheel drive track that they'd set up there they'd literally come
in with all this earth-moving machinery and build a track in the middle of Sydney
middle of the city and that Sydney Motor Show just did it so well they were
just every manufacturer had the concept cars there whether it be Bugatti or like
it wasn't just the Aussie brands that were you know but the international ones
always brought cool stuff you come home with all those posters and you know the
race car drivers for these teams would be there so you'd be able to get them signed
that's right you'd be able to pick up a little A4 poster and get signed by the
driver and didn't really get photos at the time because they were the old
little point-and-shoot and wine cameras and so if you did that you didn't get
them back for like six weeks and there are nine out of ten of them with shit
because someone walked in front of you so yeah dad was always yeah in the cars
mum mum always appreciated nice cars she wasn't like a
mum mum would look and go oh that's a nice BMW that's a nice HSV but that was
it but dad always had nice stuff and then when we'd come back down for
Christmas to Victoria you know he'd catch up with all his mates he went to
school with and they still had their you know their Taranas that they bought when
they were 17 and just always around cars when it comes to detailing is there
like a car that sort of gets you more excited about detailing not really I'm
something that's I guess you call it a farm truck something that's fucked like
and you know it's done 280,000 K's they've never looked after it they've
smoked in it because the before and afters you can like it's such an extreme
yeah the contrast is so massive you get a nice car in that you know they drive
once a month you know in 10 years they've only done 20,000 K's when you're
finished it almost sometimes looks like particularly on the inside you're like
did I do much more than a vacuum like whereas when they're when they're
wouldn't say lived in but when they're used you can go oh wow like the carpet
actually is gray not not brown yeah so it's more that before and after for you
like that I guess the sense of achievement and it's the the reaction I
get from people like I can look at the job and be like I'm happy with that and
then recently this year I had a car come in she booked it in last year and then
had to quickly cancel and that was fine and then she rolls in as I do you
remember me from last year and I'm terrible with names and faces I'm like
oh yeah of course I do and then we we got talking and then it jogged my memory
she had to cancel last time because her husband got terminal cancer and I said
well not like completely I just don't worry about me like so and he'd he'd
passed and she'd spent the last 12 months finalizing the estate cleaning out
the house you know they'd been together 60 years the car was the last thing and
it was a it was a big Jeep and she wanted to detail it to sell it to move on to
get something smaller now it's hers and she dropped it off and the before and
after was amazing and she pulls up to pick it up and I open the inside and
shows her and she just starts crying and just hugs me like because it was the
final like the chapter was closed on the grieving process of the husband and
that that means a lot more than like the journey and then I've I've made
lifelong friends out of some customers where you know they've built this car
with their partner something's happened and that's what they've got to remember
them by but now they're at that age where they can't maintain the car
themselves but they want to be able to still enjoy the good memories of the
car so they do that and that's more what's about now like that that's what
gets me going every time as opposed to a good before and after a good before and
after kind of patchy on the back to go I can still do it but it's yeah the yeah
being able to put happy memories to a car that might not have and and then you
know those people like she'll make me morning tea one day and just randomly
drop it in still just to say you know I just I can't thank you enough you know
he's you know I bake some scones last night he's you know left over so yeah
that's cool yeah that's really cool and you probably you probably wouldn't get
that in a I don't know like maybe in inner city town or something like that
like no somewhere like this so regional you definitely get that more yeah yeah
and majority of my works word of mouth so you do a good job for this person
they're talking to you know so-and-so and yeah you you wouldn't get that in a
big city and well I know from in Perth I didn't get that in inner city yeah yeah
now that's really cool so what's your like your general day-to-day work what
is what does that look like I call it mum and dad cars here every day ranges
high luxes Kluge is still common I still get a fair few common also actually but
your general mum and dad cars when I was starting out you'd get a lot more of
the show cars burn our cars and they were great because they get promotion
because they stand out so much but now their majority of probably 90% of my
works mum and dad cars and then that other 10% would be show cars or people's
weekend toys bikes your boat caravan your hot rod like high-end stuff that's
just being built so the majority of your mum and dads yeah right when it comes
to boats is is there anything you do differently I guess the surface of a
boat then you would a car yeah gel coats completely different to work with
compared to paint and then is the boat direct gloss is the clear over base it's
just I don't advertise that I do boats so anyone listening don't call me for
your boat so we're cutting this bit out then but unless you're an existing
customer that I already do work for you I don't take on new boats because they're
just especially if they're river boats like ski boats like that brown water
just stains everything if it's an older boat and you haven't looked after it
it's starting to show cracks in the hull and I just yeah I don't like boats I'd
rather do a tractor fair enough forget I asked boats I'd rather do a caravan I'd
rather do a 60 foot gooseneck caravan right then a boat right so bring your
caravans not your boats yeah cool what does the future look like for yourself
and and hustling what I do tell me just continue to get better every day and
train myself to get better the industry is moving towards paint protection film
it's amazing but it speaking with friends in America who do it it's an
absolute head fuck that the outlay in materials and having a dust-free room
to be able to do it yet they all say you're losing money for the first two
years on PPF and you know a lot of them are saying you're losing 50 to 60 grand
over those two years from one man band it's it's not something I really want
to get into it it's where the industry is going but just keep providing you know
the service I do like I answer my phones on weekends if I'm out at the
server getting fuel and someone stops going hey how much for my car you know
still just a pride myself on my old-fashioned like customer service
and just I'm honest with people if you bring your car in now it's a key carnival
you've got six kids you've done a hundred thousand case in two years you've
never vacuumed it washed it it's not going to come up brand new unless you
want to spend stupid money so it's not worth it and there's plenty of people
that they'll bring a car in and like I want you to polish it I'm like it's just
not it's not worth my time and what I would have to charge you like you want
me to spend a thousand dollars polishing a car when the car is only worth two and
a half like that that yeah and just just keep going where I'm going just knuckle
down and get better at advertising that's definitely something I can relate to
advertising is massive it's key and it's something that you've always got to work
at so but yeah like that those old-school days I guess word of mouth and
customer service there's something that you know something to be really said for
for those things and networking with local businesses like the local window
tinter he's been doing it 30 years it's one of the best around he flicks me work
I flick him work the local the local police station I know the boys there so
they're down here all the time saying hello so they're always you know they'll
be out on a job for something and you know they'll pull a car over that's
beating and they're talking to him in like cars a bit dirty I need to get a
detail like I actually we know a guy so yeah networking with a lot of
businesses how good would it be if you could work with them and go if you give
someone a ticket send them to me for a bit of a discount on something like here's
your ticket show it to show it to Cam and you get a discount 10% off your
speeding finder the demerit point back if you book in that's awesome mate we'll
get into something I know you've been looking forward to questions from past
guests I've left a few more than I normally would because I know there was
one you're pretty keen to sort of answer and that's coming from Jazzy Green what
is your favorite dinosaur triceratops triceratops that's a different answer
that I would have had a week a couple weeks ago yeah because we went down I
had my best friend flew down from Brisbane and we went to see bliss and
so the other week right okay and we had a day to kill so we were just going
ran Melbourne and we went into the museum and they've got a dinosaur exhibit
there at the moment and there's of one of the best preserved triceratops
skeletons in the world yeah right and I'm like holy shit I was like this thing
and then looking at the the neck joints like like a ball and socket like your hip
yeah which is uncommon for a neck joint and I'm just looking at these guys
these things cool so my otherwise I would have said t-rex but that's good
it's it's different everybody else has said t-rex so that's how you fall
nerded out on dinosaurs yeah which is weird because I don't I can look at the
skeletons and be like oh yeah that's like they've got a blue whale skeleton there
too yeah and like that's cool but not normally weird like nerding out at
dinosaurs like it was fully weird I was like this I don't know if it was the light
and mood lighting of the place I'm like it's not all of a sudden into dinosaurs
yeah awesome mate are coming from Matthew Craig what are you spending your
last hundred dollars on good steak good steak good steak or ribs and that
probably cost you a hundred bucks to yeah coming from Matt Mingay what
inspires you to push harder after like a big setback or injury or something like
to learn and grow but a big thing that pushes me every day is just to make my
parents proud like you work you work hard you see what they do you see them
sacrificed to and my dad was able to self fund retire at 55 so he sacrificed a
lot to see that and I just it's about doing the right thing by yourself so you
get a good clear conscience but also I just show them that they did raise a good
kid and just setbacks a setback like life is hard it sucks it's it's not really
fair but you're punching the face today I'll probably get punched in the face
tomorrow but I'll learn to duck and weave a little bit and that won't hurt as
much that is probably the most wholesome answer I've ever heard of that
question and just and own like a fuck up like when you when I was starting out
you'd you know learning how to polish and you're not quite experienced and you
might burn through an edge to just say to the customer hey I fucked up I'm sorry
I need your car for an extra couple of days I'll get your bumper repainted or
I'll get you mirror painted just learning experience yeah there's there's a lot to
be said for that for sure like people appreciate that more yeah rather than
you going oh it's gonna take a couple more days with no explanation or
something like that like if you just say hey this I'm sorry this is what
happened I did this it's my fault I'll own it yeah it's not gonna cost you any
extra but I do need it for a little bit longer they're probably gonna sit and
go okay well that's a learning experience for you one he's been completely
upfront and honest about it and I'm not gonna get charged any extra for it so
when it's time to come back again and when you normally knock something off
the bill like yeah yeah so it was an $800 job and you damage something well I'm
gonna pay for the fix and then you go well look I'll just make the bill 500 yeah
and then when they're talking to someone later on going you know I'm thinking to
get my car detailed a hustling you know how what was your experience like they're
not gonna go I fucked my car and you know you might have knocked some money
off the bill but you know you fuck my car they're gonna be like hey look they're
either gonna go he did a great job he was honest his integrity was there
definitely go to him or they will say hey look there was a minor altercation
while the car was there he owned it because was in his control or it was out
of his control but it was in his building and he owned it you know it was
without my car for a couple extra days but he accepted responsibility so Ben
Jenkins doesn't really relate let's let's turn it around and make it relate to
you what advice would you give to someone getting into like the detailing
industry today find someone who's where you want to be so if you want to have a
shot with ten employees and you kind of just want to be the office man find
someone and mentor you but look further than social media because social media
lies I know quite a few guys in the industry who are you know big social
media followings their works either I had said not that good or not everything's
what you see on social media is believable so find someone who's got the
runs on the board and talk to other people who've got runs on the board and
go what do you think like a huge mentor from for me is Kermit custom car care
wager he's one of the reasons when I was doing weekend work I came back to
summer Nats and saw a car that he'd done and I went holy fuck I want to step up
my level and he's you know three and a half hours down the way but he's been in
business he's been in business 20 years and been doing it I think 23 24 years and
he caused a spade a spade like and he's had he's had multiple employees in the
big shop some stuff happened and he's gone back to just a one-man band so he
can say look if you want to have stuff this is what you need to do if you want
to stay by yourself do this be just mentors and find someone who's got and
there's a couple of guy one of my customers actually I've been doing his
cars for a few years and doing paint protection on him and he goes I want to
start detailing now and he leaves about an hour and a half two hours away so
he's not gonna take work off me and he's like would you mentor me yeah sweet
oh it's like what do you think of this what I should do here so whether it's
detailing or anything like if you want to eventually own your own sparky
business or mechanic find someone who's doing it who's reputable and listen to
them like yeah for sure I think I learned that real early on you know you
go back to sort of things that you've messed up but take an ownership learned
that real early on with the tradesmen that I started with and when I fucked up
like he made me like he made sure I knew about it you know what I mean but he
always gave me that time like he'd blast me and then walk away and he
gave me that time to sort of sit in that and think about what I did how I can
fix it and how I can not do it again next time and then you come back and you
go okay so what have you what have you come up with you've got to fix it what
have you come up with and it always give me that time and then I'd be able to go
bang bang bang this is what we're gonna do and he'll go yes or no hmm my big
thing is doing stuff outside of work like football club management a big thing
I believe is don't come to me with a problem unless you've got a solution
because otherwise you're just pushing the problem to me for me to deal with so
okay this person say you've got you know you're the owner and your manager comes
to you and goes oh Johnny didn't turn up for work today well have you done
something about it but if he comes on goes off Johnny just so you know Johnny
didn't turn up to work today so we're gonna be short-suff of the first half
half an hour but I called in Matt I call Matt on his day off he's coming in
but so we'll be short-suff for an hour so see you've come with the problem but
then you've come with the solution to it don't just that's right yep that's
that's something I also bring into into my work today right I'll ring my
supervisor if something's going wrong in the morning and go look this has
happened but I can do this this and this and they generally they're like yep
sweet no worries because you've given the problem they've had that little panic
and you've gone but here's the solution you don't need to worry about it anymore
yeah yeah all his two solutions pick which one you want and they go yep go
with the first one bang done and then you go and then you'll actually get more
respect from people above you and below you because you're dealing with it so
yeah rather than just pushing that problem like oh this this has happened I
don't want to deal with it your problem it's above my pay grade yeah one of them
most cop-out things you can say yep well he's management he gets paid to do
that it's above my pay grade or that's not my job I've heard that way too much
that's not my job yeah when just personal accountability yep absolutely
coming from Scott Shembury what would you pick as entrance music every time
you enter a room there's two options here there's the serious so the non-serious
would be stone colds entrance the glass shadows but it would have to have good
old JR with the anyone who's a 90s wrestling fan or no yeah yeah honest
one would probably be something by ZZ Top or Parkway Drive that's a fair
contrast as you know from listening to my music earlier while I was setting up
it yeah my playlist goes from a finished death metal through to Shania
Twain and pretty much everything in between yep nice Craig McKenzie if you
could have any car what would it be 33 Ford 33 Ford not bad probably on a
roadster shop chassis oh now you're talking hello the boys don't like really
doing hot rod chassis at the moment but no they're like in their muscle car
stuff aren't they are yeah 33 Ford roadster shop chassis with a small block
forward hemi-headed black interior auto kind of in that yeah just simple a lot
of attention to detail but stuff that you you don't notice unless you look hard
or you're an aficionado of it yep yeah I like it I like it and coming from
Mark Natoli how old were you when you got off your peas
it's a 21 thing I was Victoria we couldn't get our peas till we were 18
actually it was three months past my 21st because when I sat my test we only
had an auto in the family so I had to sit my test in an auto so my P plate
license said I could only drive an auto so I finished my turn 21 I was in Perth
and I was off my peas and I waited three months after I'd turn 21 and walked in
because then I could just convert it to a full license with no restrictions so I
had to drive a manual so then I just rolled in and yeah right so was that
the way it happens here like you've got a you've got to bring your own car to do
the test in yes or you can book a book a driving instructor's car yeah right
okay it was usually yeah you bring your own car yeah right and well there was
one manual in the family and that was my granddad's brumby yeah right and that
thing was not even close to road I don't think they I don't even think they
came out road worthy to be honest no but no that's cool that's really cool your
turn mate give us a question for future guests if you could have dinner with any
three people from history alive or dead who would it be and why because you can't
just say oh I'd like to have I'd like to have dinner with Mike Tyson well why
would it be my time so yeah cool I like it we'll wrap up mate is there anyone
you'd like to thank or acknowledge Kammet custom car care wager and also
Modesta Australia he's just yeah I can't thank him enough and he he hates
being thanks because he goes it's just my job but I'm like no it's not he goes
above and beyond obviously my wife even though I know she won't listen to
this but in case she does thank you darling hats off to the wives they put
up with so much shit from us my parents they've helped a lot in the background
with the business they've never owned businesses but they were both
management so they could understand people and they're both retired now so
they if I've got to pick up drop off a car dad'll come with me to get a car or
if I'm snowed under with work they'll come sit in the office and do book work
for me or answer calls everyone who supported me over the I'm coming up on
14 years in business everyone who's ever shared a page post booked in talked to me
bought it bought some clothing bought products just anyone who's helped the
journey I mean I wouldn't be wouldn't be where I am without obviously I've got to
do the work but there's the outside factors of people helping that and some
people who just loan me their cars and just say do whatever you want promote it
you know jazzy green you know she's you know she wins street machine of the year
and then she's like any promo you need for the car go for it you don't need my
permission so I can take photos promote it on my end yeah that's cool that's cool
any words of wisdom for the listeners work hard stay humble you got it you got
to pay your dues it's having a business the loan being yet the only person it's
not easy it's never going to be easy there are good days but the bad days
outweigh the good days it's just the way business and life is so work hard stay
humble stay true to your word what you say to the customer you'll do do it if
if you make a mistake own it and I think that's just not even in business or work
just in life just celebrate the small wins I enjoy yourself like if you win a
trophy you know pat yourself on the back next day start from day zero again and
it keeps you driven keeps you going and yeah keep playing the long game awesome
mate let everybody know where they can find you Facebook Instagram I'm more
active on Instagram hustling auto detailing I'm always up for a chat I'm
always up to drop some truth bombs if you want to go deep on detailing products
and gimmicks within the industry yeah always up for a chat and if you see me
in a car show I will be at some of that's if this is out by then yeah yeah
it'll be up by then if you see me around come up and have a chat I may look
standoffish and sound grumpy but I will say hello thank you so much for having
me mate it's been awesome thanks for allowing me to talk a bit more about me
as opposed to the business it's been nice no problems yeah thank you well
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About this episode
Cam Scorey shares his journey from working at a dealership to founding Hustlin Auto Detailing in regional Victoria. He discusses his unique upbringing, moving from Papua New Guinea to Australia, and the challenges he faced in establishing his business. Cam reflects on the importance of customer service, the emotional connections formed through detailing, and the satisfaction of transforming neglected vehicles. He also touches on his love for classic cars, the detailing industry, and the significance of mentorship. This heartfelt conversation reveals the passion and dedication behind his craft.
Cam owns and operates Hussln Auto Detailing out of Tatura in regional Victoria.
After chatting back and forth for a long time with Cam via social media, it was great to be able to pay him a visit and record this episode face to face at his facility located on the busiest intersection in town.
In this episode we got to hear about how Cam started out in detailing and how he went from working for a dealership to taking the leap and opening his own business and later on moving into a workshop of his own.
We got to hear about Cam moving from Shepparton to Papua New Guinea when he was a week old where he would live for 5 years with armed security and what that was like trying to make friends. Then on to regional NSW in Blayney into his teen years before moving back home to regional Victoria.
We also got to hear about how Cam moved to Perth for a girl he met online which ultimately led him to start detailing, and marry his wife before moving back to Victoria again.
Cam has a really cool story and I’m glad that I had the opportunity to sit and talk with him for this episode.