| CAP peinture en carrosserie | July 2007 |
|---|---|
| BEP carrosserie | July 2007 |
| Bac Pro réparation des carrosseries | October 2008 |
That is the complete French training for the trade: the metal, the structure and the paint. Three qualifications for three trades that are really one.
The workshop opened in Vidauban in July 2025. He works steel, aluminium, copper and brass there — by hammer and dolly, and by machine when the machine does it better.
Look at the photographs: a cab lifted off its chassis, every defect in the metal ringed in marker pen before a tool touched the car, the steel worked back before any filler went near it. That is checkable, and it is more use than a number of years.
Naming the equipment isn’t vanity. A lift, a booth, a welder — those are checkable facts. “Quality workmanship” isn’t.
A timber-framed workshop, off the road, in the countryside outside Vidauban. A car that stays here for six months isn’t parked on a main road behind a roller shutter.