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We would like to begin by introducing you to Robert Frank aka "Ferd", born in 1950 and raised in the St. Louis area. Ferd began working for his father who owned Loghboro Auto Body on the southside of St. Louis at the age of 13. Over the next few years, the body shop became a place for all of Ferd's buddies to hang out and work on cars. A life-long love of Ferd's was born. However, that wasn't Ferd's only passion. His other was music. Ferd played the trumpet all through school until the Beatles came onto the scene. Ferd's musical passion shifted from trumpet to guitar when the Beatles started gaining popularity. "Girls weren't really into trumpets, but they sure loved guitars" he chuckles, thinking back.

His love for playing the guitar grew more and more as he began playing in different local bands. Until one day he received a call that would forever change his life and remove him from his family business. A shift was underway that would remove this young man from his birthplace to achieve his dreams.

In 1976, that call came from a fellow friend in the music industry. It was about an opportunity for an audition with Johnny Cougar's band, known simply today as "John Mellencamp". He aced the audition. Ferd and Johnny hit it off. He began traveling with Johnny and the band. Over the next few years, they finished 3 albums, and were well into the fourth album "American Fool" with hits such as "Jack & Diane" and "Hurt So Good". While Ferd was walking across his living room floor with a tray of food he tripped, and a glass container of oil-based dressing fell to the ground and shattered causing Ferd to slip and fall impaling his hand with glass. Ferd needed immediate surgery. Surgery revealed he had severed tendons in two fingers which ended Ferd's guitar-playing days.

He soon moved back to St. Louis, MO. His father had passed, and he reopened another body shop repairing high-line automobiles. An individual who worked with Ferd heard of a method to remove door dings without re-painting the panel, but Ferd didn't believe it. Then one day Ferd was invited to see it in action. Ferd and his friend Linn drove to Springfield, MO, and met Jerry Powell who they heard was training individuals. They saw the demonstration, and quickly realized this is what they wanted to do - Paintless Dent Removal - at the time it was called "Ding Removal". A week later they were in their 2-month training program, and that was the birth of Dent Squad in the summer of 1989. Today Dent Squad is the oldest verifiable PDR Shop in the U.S.A., and on October 30th, 2020, Ferd sold Dent Squad to his industry friend, Randy Hobson. On October 30th, 2020, Ferd sold Dent Squad to his industry friend, Randy Hobson, who then sold the business to son in law, Adam Fountain.

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