History and Experience

Perma-Touch is the result of a marriage between technology and customer service. Bill Cohen, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed and started what is now known as Perma-Touch in 1998. As an engineer with very little business background, he approached Ron Shanholtz to partner with him in order to expand the business. Ron's background includes 19 years with national corporations, most of which were at the vice president level.

For the last 17 years Ron has been involved in the service industry and currently has oversight of Perma-Touch Operations and Customer Care. In 2001, Perma-Touch signed their first distributor in Hawaii and have now grown to forty-one retail distributors across the country. Perma-Touch has been used extensively to restore vehicle paint over the last six years with incredible success and is now available nationally.

With our ongoing in-house and field research we continue to bring nothing but the best in products and service to our customers.

Hot Wheel System wheel repair started in 2007 by Loren “Gibby” Gibson. Gibby and his brother Greg have been involved with internet advertising for car dealers throughout Maine & New England since 1996. Gibby started and still owns & operates the popular auto portal NewEnglandAutoMall.com. Gibby thought wheel repair would be a great service to offer to his existing car dealer customers but realized quickly that because so many people drove trucks and suv’s in Maine instead of cars with low profile tires, etc., that his wheel repair market was very limited.

Greg, who moved to Tampa in 2005 and was currently Internet Sales Manager for Mercedes Benz of Tampa always had a love for custom paint work and suggested to his brother that the two of them set up a wheel repair shop in Tampa. Gibby agreed Florida was the right market! Greg then quit his job, flew to Maine, met with his brother Gibby to hammer out the details, packed up all the wheel repair supplies into a spare company work truck and drove back to Tampa and Hot Wheel System wheel repair was born!!!

Our commitment to you is that we will always treat you and your vehicle the way we’d want to be treated. We are fully licensed and insured professionals that will always offer great customer service, superior workmanship, quality paints & materials and fast turn around times! We truly want to be your wheel repair company for life and it shows!