DKM’s Paint & Body didn’t start out a goal or plan, it started life as a dream, not even my dream. Let me explain, as a kid my dad worked at a body shop from the time I can remember until roughly 2000. He never pushed me into doing anything I really didn’t want to do. He always said when you grow up and find a career, I just want you to be happy. Actually as a young boy I wanted to be a carpenter
like my grandpa. Then fast forward a few years, I started showing interest in cars, and really got to paying attention to dad’s work. The amazing things he would do to complete rubble of messes and turn them into looking brand new again. I was hooked I wanted to learn as much as I could, as fast as I could. He started to notice that I started gettin into it and he got so excited but didn’t try to show it because he didn’t want to pressure me into something I wasn’t gonna love down the road. A couple years went by and things didn’t change, I just kept getting more and more passionate about it. My dad and I would talk a lot about how to fix this and that and then it got to where we were thinking about starting a shop together. After we visited about it off and on, it just sent me into a whole different gear. I wanted this so badly. Unfortunately, that’s not what life had in store for either of us. My dad’s mental health diminished roughly around 2000. It crushed my whole world but I vowed to someday follow out that dream and would turn it into a goal to one day to do this. In 2009 I graduated high school then went onto SWCC for collision repair. In 2010 I passed the ASE Certification tests along with all the ICAR training. After finishing SWCC, I went to Northwest Technical School from 2011-2012. My dad also went to Northwest Technical School for auto body. This was more of an on the floor type learning vs. I ended up going to Skills USA in Missouri, winning and moving on to take 8th in the state for refinishing and test taking. I got out into the field and unfortunately my mental health declined so the dream had to take a back seat for some years. I always tried to follow up with the education. Then I got the right help that worked for me and a lot of life changes. I decided to finally go all in on my dream. DKMs Paint & Body is my business name. The DKM’s part of it isn’t for me it’s my dads initials, Daniel Kevin Mackey, since he isn’t able to be right with me on this journey it’s only right to name my business after my dad who I owe all this to in the first place. So, all that being said, it would be very hard to find anyone as passionate about this business as I am. Thank you for looking at our page and we hope to do business with you in the near future. If you have any questions or would like to visit about repairs and/or refinishing your dream project, just send us a email or a message.
