Trudel Auto Body
Prince Albert

About Trudel Auto Body Prince Albert

Our first shop owned was a 14 X 18 car garage beside the grocery store in Albertville, Saskatchewan.

I set it up with 6 house table lamps nailed to the wall for lighting, an oil burning furnace in the corner.

In the winter this thing would get red hot.

I punched out a window & put in a house cooling fan for my paint exhaust fumes, and 2 farm wheel compressors hooked up together outside for air.

Why I didn't blow myself up with explosive fumes, God only knows. The first job was a Chrysler car. A neighbor, who liked what I had done with my 1952 truck, got me to repair and paint it.

I worked a week on it and charged him $40.00. Back then a paint job was worth $120 to $160. My how things have changed. Then in 1975 I built a new 4 car 32 X 60 building in Albertville, and took on my brother John as a partner.

With business getting...