The PBMG Years

PBMG or Palm Beach Motoring Group was the umbrella company that included Autogeek.com, Autopia.org, multiple TV shows, regular appearances on popular automotive TV shows plus the famous car show put on by PBMG – Detail Fest.

PBMB also included a wide-spectrum of premium quality brands for car care products such as Pinnacle Natural Brilliance, Wolfgang, Marine 31, Detailer’s Pride, Diamondite and Cobra. The Autogeek.com online store became the most trafficked one-stop shopping destination for all your car care needs offering the most popular and best brands for products, pads, tools, and accessories.

When Mike Phillips left Meguiar’s in 2009 to join the Autogeek team, Bob took the concept of learning the craft of car and boat detailing to the highest level offering the best automotive and marine detailing classes in the world. With the Mike Phillips and Nick Rutter team providing real-world, hands-on training classes in the Autogeek Show Car Garage, people traveled from around America and the world to attend these classes. The powerful and unexpected side-effect from these classes is how after taking one of the PBMG classes, the students would take what they learned back to their hometowns and then share their new found knowledge and skills for car and boat detailing within their circle-of-influence and the byproduct from this was increase sales! Another homerun idea with flawless execution by Bob McKee!

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