Bernard Pavlas

About Bernard

My love for cars began in 1960, when my dad bought a Gulf service station in Schulenburg, Texas. I began working there in 1972, doing general service work and in 1975 began doing bodywork for a shop in Weimar, Texas. I was so interested in the bodywork aspect of vehicle repair that in 1978, I enrolled at Texas State Technical Institute to become educated in body, paint and glass work, then took that knowledge back home to the shop in Weimar. In 1979, I began working at a Pontiac Oldsmobile and International Harvester dealership in La Grange, and in 1981 took a job at Brasher Chevrolet in Weimar. I stayed there until 1985, when I moved to the Clear Lake area and began working at Norman Frede Chevrolet. I spent the next 31 years there, during which I went to GM frame repair and welding school, became I-CAR Certified and spent the last 10 years working solely on Corvettes. I retired as the body shop manager in 2016 and soon after joined John and Dustin at Creative Classics & Customs!