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From Model Cars to Custom Classics: The Art of Randy Borcheding

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Welcome to another in-wheel-time podcast, a 30-minute mini-version of the in-wheel-time car show that airs live every Saturday morning and in-wheel-time car show. Just ahead, Randy Borcheting with Painthouse. Plus, Jeff will have the cruise-in and events calendars and I'll bring you stories making automotive news headlines this week. Audi, along with Mike, out of this world, fix it, bars, we always need more Jeff Zekin. I fixed nothing. I break it.

He fixes it. Chief Engineer David Ainslie, thank you, David. We love you. I'm Don Armstrong. Glad that you could join us on this live broadcast if you're at 10.30 on a Saturday morning. If you're listening on a podcast, well, we already had this show. And if you're looking behind us, this is all going to change here in the next few weeks. Yes, this is the last time that you will see this backdrop because we're going to be moving. And as I build up to this,

this move, it reminds me of how much I really dislike moving. But I'll tell you what, along with moving, there's a huge purging in my life. I have stuff that I haven't used or needed in years. And actually, most of the stuff that is in the studio, I don't use.

Like a 13-inch type 2x4 that you think you're going to use next time and you have that 2x4 for 20 years.

It's one that I strap to my rear end, so when I'm falling through the hole, it'll kind of catch me.

Yeah, that's that. Interesting. So block 42 is where we're moving.

Very good. Well, let's head over to the point where we're making some tweaking versus twerking. You can do both.

He's done both and it's not a pleasant sight to see.

I've seen video not in person. I think we're good now. Next time you do that, we're a belt.

All right, let me get him to unmute. Unmute yourself there, Randy.

I'll wait that. Is that a cougar? Oh my gosh. Is that a cougar behind you? Let's bring him up.

That's a cougar behind you. Here we go. Is that Jen behind you?

The cougar. It's not the first time Jen's been behind me.

I'll bet. Yeah, through your entire life or God. Look at that car.

So how have you been, my friend? I'm good, guys. I see you got the woes from last week figured out a couple of weeks ago.

No, we haven't. No, you just can't see him today.

We were tested before you enjoyed this new woes.

Move down to new woes. That's exactly right. Moving woes now.

Yeah, yeah. So it's good to be with you.

Painthouse is the name of Randy's business out there and Randy does.

Randy does paint jobs. When I first met Randy, I was looking for somebody to put a paint job on the Corvaries.

He looked at me and he said, Don, you can't afford me.

And I've never had anybody say that to me. But now that I've known you for a number of years.

He's right. He's right. I can't afford him because Randy.

I'd like to think I was a little more diplomatic, but maybe I wasn't.

No, it was it was all good. It's car guys. We get it.

But I will say this and bragging about you. I don't believe I've ever seen better paint jobs on any vehicle in my entire life.

This guy is top notch and 110% on paint jobs and it may take him a while because he's going to do it right.

And I want to appreciate that.

Yes, sir. And one of those obviously fine automobiles that you're working on right now is right behind you. Tell us about that.

The 70 Cougar we had it at SEMA this last year. It was just that the recent

Craig Behrman showed Texas auto elite. One best custom there and we're on our way to

triple crown in Nashville. We can we can have from now. Now this is not your car. This is a customer's car.

This is a customer's car. Yeah. The car that's mine is out in the driveway not getting paid attention too much. And it's a truck.

I got I got that but you know I find it interesting that you do these super builds if you will.

All of them from the ground up and beautiful paint jobs and these guys that own these cars obviously are putting a lot of money into them.

And they actually want you to go and show these cars for them.

Absolutely. I mean in some ways that's where they get their payback. You know it's a lot of times they're

rebuilding a memory or something a hole in their life they never had or could afford and now they can they can afford to get what they couldn't get back then.

And yeah they want people to appreciate what they've what they've done. You know I was what they allowed us to do.

Yes exactly. I was bragging about you to somebody this week and they stewed a Baker pickup truck. Hudson. Hudson. I knew I was close.

The Hudson. Hudson pickup truck. And that was absolutely spectacular because of all the work that you did on it.

And that that really is your shingle on your front door right there to me. And when I when I see that in my mind I'm going I've never seen anything quite like it.

It's definitely unique and it needed a lot of things to be done to it. And presently it lives in the Museum of American Speed up in Lincoln Nebraska.

It's a beautiful museum if anybody has never been you should go. It's owned by the Speedway Motors Group. And man what what a piece of history that place is full of everything.

And to be invited to park it in there and let the public see it is kind of exactly what it needed.

When you when you trailer these cars around for your customers. You trailer them yourself I assume. Yes almost always. Yeah because you really can't.

You know you got you know half a million dollar car and to give it to somebody else. Not that there are responsible people out there that do this sort of thing.

But it's kind of like I don't know if I want anybody else messing with this. Yeah it's maybe on the helicopter builder. I don't know.

I just can't let go but I just like the process of being on the road that that's something I enjoy so it doesn't bother me to drag a trailer around and get to go to some fun places and see friends.

And get out of this heat humidity. Do you still have the toy trailer.

Not the one we lived in we now have what I'll call a semi toy trailer.

It's got a bathroom and a sleeping space but it's not a live in trailer like our last one was. Yeah that's that modular one you were showing.

You could call it that it's got some some neat features in it ATC trailers built it for us and they got a really neat system of things you can add and subtract.

And just do what you want with the trailer very quickly and easily.

So I want to know about the rig you got now. If you got your freight liner or a Kenworth.

No no I did I did buy an F450 though. Did you and it's it's always been my sort of my dream truck.

And I'll just tell you this it's a rough riding truck. There's no no way around.

Well especially without a load on the back of it. Exactly. I've done a few things to minimize that issue but I don't think you can get around it.

It's an F450 no matter how you color it. Do you have to have a CDL for that? No no no no.

You can drive it and ensure it normally. That's a one time correct.

Well technically it's more than that. They had one and a quarter and they downrate them.

The number the stickers on the door jam say 14,000 which is the same thing at 350 says.

But it's capable of far more. But they put the number on the sticker so the guys like me can get regular insurance on them.

Is that a diesel? Yes the power stroke. Yeah. And how does that work for you? I always wanted to ask these questions but now that I know somebody that actually has one of them.

How does it work? I wouldn't I wouldn't tow with anything but a diesel number one.

Especially when you're dealing with a lot of weight. The problem with diesels and it's true of all the brands is they are so clogged up with the emission systems that they can't breathe.

And you can't idle them for more than 20 or 30 minutes or they will shut themselves off.

There are just so many things that have taken away some of the advantages of a diesel which is efficiency and obviously power that it.

It's still the best way to do it but they have really made it difficult on us to to to control our costs and these trucks you know they're a hundred thousand dollars these days.

It's crazy what they cost. They're beautiful pieces of equipment. I love the truck but my God what I love to give it a weight loss program so to speak and take off some of those things that clog it up.

Now does the same whole true when you buy a kinworth or a freight liner that's that's got the big living quarters on the back of it but it can also haul a double stacker from you know all the way back to your mama's house.

Yeah yeah yeah they're all they all have emissions now yes.

Interesting okay so besides the mercury that you've got behind you what else you're working on.

We're working on a 68 cutlass convertible in assembly right now we've got a 67 C10 truck we're painting body working and painting for the guys up at Hammer Fab in Austin.

Beautiful truck a lot of custom metal work.

There's a couple in a poultry right now a 55 Chevy sedan a 67 firebird convertible and we've got a 69 Corvette a T top car that is about to go to a poultry so there's several of them in here in varying states of disrepair.

You mentioned you got to be over in in a poultry the last time we talked to you you were looking for a poster you were traveling out of state to get it done at one time yeah yeah it's a moment.

I forgot to mention we got a 68 road runner.

You may see a pink fender over here that's out of that car that's also in a poultry so the road runners at a shop called MTI in college station they're doing a beautiful job.

An amazing use of 3d printing almost the entire interior has been 3d printed less the seats in the carpet it's just unbelievable what they're doing now and not that whole game has changed.

If you're not keeping up with that technology you're going to be left behind I'm afraid.

So you could get an a classic vehicle that maybe a part is no longer made for the dash or maybe a door panel or an unrest and they could they could recreate that I'll be darn.

This cougar is a prime example of it Brent at Skulk Garage he's in San Marcus Texas did this one and it's about half 3d printed the entire dash is 3d printed the console pieces of the door panels the whole trunk of decoration you know the trim panels and the trunk.

It's amazing what they can do in a computer print it and for the most part just fine tune it a little bit and cover it and and and they're done that's clearly oversimplifying it but but it has changed the game because you can make the radio that's in this cougar look like forward or mercury put it there instead of like an add on it's it's really interesting and and

trend setting the way they're changing this whole industry interesting not to change the subject but yeah kind of motors that thing got in behind you.

It's the 4.6 terminator so it's a supercharged V8 out of the O4 Cobra Mustang which was a two year power plant it's very unique makes a lot of power but it's a bit tricky to get parts for the customer.

We put this came up with this engine years ago at one point we decided we're going to stick with this or we're going to go to the more modern coyote engine and he decided to stick with the the 4.6 terminator because it is so unique.

So it it looks big when you open the hood but it's a tiny little engine cubic inch wise it's 281 cubic inches wow but it makes a lot of power but it's not the eliminator is a terminator.

It's called the terminator correct right the car is our emulation of an eliminator got you.

You know back then cougar had that as a their version of like the boss 302 exactly you know trim package a performance package they never made a convertible eliminator so we decided with the customer's input well let's make something they never made as if it's a prototype or a concept car.

And we called it top eliminator just because it's got a top you eliminate the top when you put it down and it's a eliminator so it got a little play on words.

Yeah I had a Nova in high school best friend of mine had a cougar his dad bought it for him he painted it a silver had a black interior and it was a pretty car it was a nice car.

Yeah what you're Nova 72.

I have my first car was a 71 I love those cars.

You know if I couldn't see the front end of that car and the actual nose of it looking down the side it has the crease that goes from the fender through the door to the actual rear quarter panel there it looks very similar to the Buick Skylark.

Yeah I can see that.

It just struck me as odd I've never really never noticed it but you know you just don't see that many cougars around.

True true and they're neat cars they were the you know the gentleman's hot rod the upscale Mustang whatever you want to call it but neat car.

Well when I think when I think of Mercury I always think of upscale interiors nice seats nicer seats than a Ford.

Yeah right and I think that they did it right.

Well it's a shame that brand went away.

What was the step above the cougar it was it was the mercury.

That was a big car.

I like to refer to that as the mark quiz but didn't the cougar actually had a step up there was three levels of the cougar there was a base.

That's our seven.

Yes that's it thank you.

Excellent.

Well Randy it's always great to talk to you my friend.

Yeah thanks and tell Jen we said hi.

I'll do it.

And do it.

And we need to talk we need to talk more often I'm thinking about every six weeks or so.

We get we get sidetracked talking to him about these beautiful cars.

I know we I thought we were going to have a subject matter but this is fun too.

Well that's it we always get sidetracked because I'd still like to.

It's all right for him to share his holler.

Yeah his story about how he got started and how somebody else you know some of these kids that are coming out of high school was kind of our target but we'll have to do that at another time.

Well no let's let's let's kind of brush on that right now.

So how did you get started Randy.

I'll see all a humor side building models right as a kid I love building models.

Yep and I hate to say it this way but I'm just building bigger models and sometimes glue is required.

Yeah well I mean and and did you ever work at a dealership.

No I have no formal training in this whatever I've learned I am still learning the hard way.

And how long have you been doing it with your business.

Oh gosh we'll just call it 30 years somewhere in that range.

Liar it's longer than that but you know I will say this that I learned about Randy is the fact that.

People come to Randy and say well you mix me a special color and that is really his specialty in my world.

He does beautiful work in the garage but mixing those paint colors truly is outstanding.

I don't know anybody that could do it like you do.

I'm interested in a nice brown.

Oh we have one called hot chocolate.

There you go.

It matches me.

This color on the cougar they had a color like this in that day.

Yep.

And we mixed it up.

I did my spin on it's got a little pearl in it.

They called it school bus yellow.

I call it short bus pearl.

Short bus pearl.

You should recognize that color.

You know it spoke to me and I know exactly where it came from.

Don't lick the windows.

And you know I'm good at that.

Oh my gosh.

Well let's get more into that next time that we talk.

I want to talk to you about you know schooling youngsters that are really into painting body.

We need them.

We need young blood in this industry.

Yes.

Yes, most definitely.

And have you ever had anybody in the shop that you're kind of grooming?

I do now.

We've got a couple younger fellows that have the passion and the want which is a whole lot of the equation.

That's the main.

You just have to fill in the gaps with the skills and techniques.

And they know how.

Yeah, exactly.

All right.

So we'll get more into that in our next conversation.

What about four or five weeks from now?

Yeah, yeah.

That worked out really well.

All right.

Sounds good.

Randy, God bless you.

Thank you.

It's great to talk to you my friend.

Thanks fellas.

Take care.

You do the same.

Thank you, sir.

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Time now, let's do, huh?

No, I just point it to people out there.

One of them kind of wasn't paying attention and I see you out there.

Your ex-rave vision?

You bought those glasses when you were a kid, didn't you?

They told me they're a comic book.

I sent three box tops and a quarter end and that's what I got.

Did you remember?

They always showed some girl in the picture in a nice dress.

X-ray glasses.

Exactly.

That was the whole list.

No, you need to send four box tops in for that one.

That's the upscale bottle.

All right, time now for the cruise in and events calendars, Jeffrey.

That caffeine and chrome gateway classic through cars.

These are for next Saturday, the 30th, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Right about the time we're on the air so you can listen to it over there.

It's a 1910 Cypress station drive in Houston.

You got classic cars.

You got a lot of pastries, coffee.

It's a good car show.

Nine to noon.

Get out there and enjoy that.

It's been there in years.

I remember when they first started that and I went and it was a brand new venue.

And go, wow, that's cool.

There's no admission fee open to the public.

Pet friendly and everything.

And then we got another Saturday event next week.

It's a benefit car show and barbecue at Marshall's Tavern in Conroe.

Good for them.

1717 North Frazier.

It's a benefit car show.

Country custom fabrication is putting it on.

So there's a registration of $35 if you want to show your vehicle in the event.

All kinds of stuff going on.

They've got food.

They've got best car, best modern car.

All kinds of things, best rat rod.

So go out there and enjoy that.

One more for Saturday of next week.

You've got caffeine chrome.

Again, another one.

This is at a different place.

This is a new brothels for the Gateway Classic.

Oh, we've been there on the hot rod tour.

Exactly.

So that's the new brothels at $6.79.

Whole can drive.

It's sweet 105.

It's a big place.

Go out there and enjoy that.

Again, a lot of stuff.

There's no admission pet friendly.

Good stuff.

The 31st, which is Sunday.

You got Brazoria County cars and coffee.

It's in Lake Jackson.

Been there.

It lived not too far from there.

We first moved to Texas.

Enjoy some stuff.

It's 9 to 11.

It's at 2 to 1 parkingway streets.

And it's a last Sunday of every month.

Parking way.

And then Saturday the 18th of October.

We got spring branch from 10 to 1.

That's a remote out there.

And then we've got one.

What is that?

He's off Coast Auto Shield.

Golf Coast Auto Shield.

Yeah, we got another event going on there for.

For those folks as well.

So if you're looking for an event.

You can get on Facebook, YouTube, all that stuff.

They do post it.

Get a hold of Bobby Sparkman.

He's got a lot of stuff that he's got going on.

As a matter of fact, they zeroed in on the dates.

Yeah.

For the next hot ride tour.

Yeah.

I think it's April 23rd.

Yep.

Through the 26th.

That sounds right.

Sounds right.

Yeah.

So pack your bags.

We're going.

Yeah.

And my suggestion is if you're going to go and make it plans to go.

Get the hotel room in Victoria now.

Yeah.

Because they wind up selling out every place around there.

It's a great event.

But I think that's the best part to be honest.

I mean, it's nice to go for the cruise.

But I agree.

That environment down there at the park that they work with the city on is just.

And I'm going to make this announcement today.

Here we are going into Labor Day weekend.

Right?

That I'm not going to have anything to do within real time.

Other than look pretty and take my car.

It's going to be on you.

What's he saying?

Yeah, what he said.

That's all on you.

Yeah.

So I can't wait to see your walk around from Victoria Square down there.

I'm sure it'll be great.

Well, you can take Becky.

Hold her by the hand.

Jeff could be your cameraman.

It's going to be wonderful.

I just need to get a car because I already look pretty.

Well, that's true.

Half the battle already done.

Half the battle.

Yep.

All right.

Some of the news headlines this week.

Start off with this one.

Humpe Wheeler has died.

Yeah.

Humpe Wheeler, who helped usher NASCAR's presence

onto the national stage back in the 70s,

with imaginative, often over-the-top pre-race shows,

and a completely new vision to racetrack facilities has died.

He was 86.

Wheeler spent 33 years at the helm of Charlotte Motors Speedway,

a one and a half mile facility,

that under his supervision became one of the sport's first show places.

Have you ever been there?

No.

Absolutely spectacular.

What was it again?

The Charlotte Motors Speedway.

Oh, yes, I have been there.

I thought you said something else.

Yes, I have been there.

Have you been smoking something?

No.

Extravaganza's unbelievable in the pre-race world,

just as often as parts of the whole series, really.

They ran the gamut from school bus vehicles,

leaping row upon row of joke-bounds cars

to Robosaurus, the towering, fire-breathing,

car crunching mechanical robot,

to recreations of numerous military operations,

including the invasion of Grenada.

He did all of that.

That's the infield.

On the infield before the race.

It was absolutely spectacular.

Charlotte was the first track to build condos on the site,

offering fine dining in a restaurant overlooking the racetrack,

and most telling of all,

the first speedway of its size to feature

racing under the lights.

It's kind of a given these days.

You're going to have a nighttime race.

You've got to get it ready for TV.

What's tonight?

Daytona's tonight.

Daytona, which is two and two and a half miles.

Two and a half miles.

Talladega's two and a two-thirds.

Anyway, yeah, under the lights.

Can you imagine lighten that thing?

We know it was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame

in 2006, and Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009.

In his more than 30 years on the job,

he's never failed to entertain us.

He's always put the fans first.

Team owner, Rick Hendrick, said,

upon hearing of Wheeler's departure from CMS,

Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Help these contributions will go down

as some of the most significant in the sports history.

Under Wheeler's direction,

the track became the gold standard

by which all other race tracks were built

and how they were measured,

said seven times series champion Richard Petty.

And I will tell you and remind everyone

that the mile-and-a-half track was kind of unique

to Charlotte at the time.

The one in Dallas, the one in Las Vegas,

they're both kind of carbon copies.

Kind of cookie cutter.

That's what the whole Charlotte and the mile-and-a-halfs

were in the very beginning.

Why are they all the same?

He was the Barnum and Bailey of NASCAR.

Yes, he was.

Very creative and very imaginative.

And I will say that that mile-and-a-half formula worked

because it's big enough that you can get up to speed,

but it's also small enough that you can get close to the action.

Well, and you also can put five turns in it,

because you got the dog leg.

Yeah, you got a dog leg in there.

Yep.

I thought this was an interesting story

that came out yesterday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada

is dropping some retaliatory tariffs on American products,

but not auto duties to match US tariff exemptions for goods

covered under the United States, Mexico, Canada agreement.

So that is still in place.

Carney says the decision will take effect September 1st.

Carney says Canada and the US have reestablished free trade

for the vast majority of goods.

Carney had called with the US President Donald Trump

on Thursday and Carney confirmed that Trump assured him

the move would help kickstart trade negotiations

with the US stop ripin' us off.

Yeah.

Taxi.

Ford is looking to develop a supercar for off-road racing

until it's recalled.

As a follow-up to its new $325,000 Mustang GTD

high-performance sports car.

God, a Mustang for $325,000.

Leia Cokka would be turning in his grave.

Ford CEO Jim Farley, the recall man,

said he envisions the vehicle as a dirt loving,

high-performance machine that could compete in the Dakar rally

desert endurance race in Saudi Arabia.

No one's ever built a supercar for gravel, high-speed sand,

dirt, Farley said.

I'm thinking really deeply about it,

and usually that turns into something.

Automakers have a history of fielding limited production,

pricey trophy models, to cast a halo over their broader enterprise.

Somebody's calling me.

Uh-oh.

And I am not going to be able to answer that.

You mentioned Dakar rally.

There's been Jaguar and Porsche have always been entered

in that Dakar rally with SUVs.

Years.

Yes, absolutely.

So what is making this so special?

Well, they're not showing their hand on this.

Ford is also stepping up its racing activities,

including a return to the Formula One circuit.

All right.

Here, to burnish its motor sport credentials,

here comes Cadillac right behind them.

Hertz Global Holding says its sales unit is partnering

with Amazon.com automotive retail platform,

Amazon Autos, to sell pre-owned vehicles.

The collaboration announced August 20th builds on Amazon Autos

recent expansion into used vehicle sales board.

I take them.

I'm bridge with that.

Cadillac will be in front of them.

They'll be behind Cadillac.

Thank you, Jeff.

Appreciate that.

Yep.

We'd love to hear from you.

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About this episode

Randy Borcheding of Painthouse shares insights into his custom car painting business, discussing his unique approach to paint jobs and the artistry involved in restoring classic vehicles. He highlights notable projects, including a 1970 Cougar and a Hudson pickup truck, and emphasizes the importance of 3D printing in modern restorations. The conversation also touches on the challenges of working with diesel trucks and the significance of mentoring young talent in the automotive industry. The episode is filled with humor and camaraderie among car enthusiasts.

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Original notes

Randy Borcheding of PaintHouse offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of high-end custom car creation, where artistry meets engineering in spectacular fashion. His latest masterpiece – a 1970 Mercury Cougar convertible finished in a custom "Short Bus Pearl" yellow – recently claimed Best Custom at the Craig Bierman show and is headed to the prestigious Triple Crown event in Nashville.

What makes Randy's approach unique is his blend of traditional craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology. The Cougar represents a "what if" concept car that Mercury never built – a convertible version of their Eliminator performance package. Beyond its flawless paint, the car features extensive 3D-printed components including the entire dashboard, console, and trunk panels. This revolutionary technique allows classic cars to integrate modern conveniences while maintaining period-correct aesthetics, fundamentally changing restoration possibilities.

Behind every build lies a deeply personal connection. As Randy explains, many clients are "rebuilding a memory or something, a hole in their life they never had or could afford." These emotional investments transform projects from simple restorations into rolling tributes that fulfill lifelong dreams. After three decades in business without formal training, Randy now focuses on mentoring young talent, emphasizing that passion and desire form the foundation upon which technical skills can be taught.

Ready to see automotive artistry at its finest? Follow Randy's work and join us every Saturday from 10 AM to noon for our live show across Facebook, YouTube, and InWheelTime.com to discover more incredible stories from the automotive world.

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