WFR FOR MY CARREVOLUTION RENEWED
WFR For My Car · The People of the Revolution
The names that stand here aren’t chosen — they’re proven: Tint-Off™ and Auto Glass Week™ champions, the teachers the trades themselves learn from, the best of the best. This is every one of them in one place — the trainers, champions, creators and partners the Window Film Revolution celebrates — each with their story and their own videos. Nobody buys this spot, and nobody is handed it. It’s earned.
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Spotlight Of The Week · November 9–15, 2026
Paint Protection Film · American Wrap Company — Newbury Park, California. Two-time WFCT Paint Protection Film champion — Tint-Off™ gold in 2016 and 2018, five podiums in five straight years (2015–2019).
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American Wrap Company on YouTube · Tyler O’Hara on Instagram
Spotlight · Tampa, Florida
He came up through the show-car world, became the youngest FormulaOne dealer of his era, won a Tint-Off — and for years billed himself, in his own video titles, as the fastest tinter in the game. Today David Hoeksema runs Tint Express, a mobile window tinting company out of Tampa that comes to you — and carries more than thirteen hundred customer reviews behind it.
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YouTube — his second featured video · Instagram — @tint_xpress · windowtintnear.me · Custom AT4X GMC audio build video
Spotlight · Staten Island, New York
Fernando "Fernan" Sainz started tinting at fourteen in Puerto Rico, ran installations at the island's largest tint shop, and in 2012 brought the craft to Staten Island, where he and his wife Tani built Sainz Designs. Thirty-plus years in — tint, paint protection film, wraps and graphics — he is also one of the most decorated competitors the tint world has: at Film Fest 2026 he won Auto Singles, won Flat Glass, and took the Gauntlet across all four disciplines.
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YouTube — Sainz Designs NYC · Instagram — @sainzdesigns · Facebook — Sainz Designs · sainzdesigns.com
Spotlight · Yucaipa, California
Danny Munoz started tinting in 2007 and learned the trade the honest way — one car, one mentor, one toolbox at a time. Today he runs Honest Tint & PPF in Yucaipa, California with his wife Liz, teaches the next generation as an industry trainer, and owns one of the most decorated competition records in the game: a WFR Family Reunion championship, a world-championship medal — and a finals match where he cut his hand, refused to stop, and finished anyway.
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Honest Tint & PPF — his shop in Yucaipa · Facebook — from Danny's own page, on the Honest Tint shop floor · More of the champ's competition runs — Tintertainment · "From Apprentice to Trainer" — Autobahn's profile of Danny
Spotlight · Sumter, South Carolina
The trade knows him as Sean Gee. He learned to tint at twelve years old, at his father's side — and three decades on, he is a world champion, a magazine cover story, and one of the first trainers Rick Tallman ever named to the WFR Training Network. His shop, The TintMan Gill LLC in Sumter, South Carolina, is where customers line up early and tinters come to learn from a man who still works the bay himself.
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Sean's WFR shop page — The TintMan Gill LLC · Train with Sean in Sumter
Spotlight · Richmond, Kentucky
Some shops tint cars. JC Tints films the whole thing — every install, every how-to, every finished car rolling out of the bay. Out of Richmond, Kentucky, this is one of the hardest-working cameras in the tint business, bolted onto a shop Google's customers rate 4.9 stars.
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YouTube — JC Tints · Facebook — JC Tints · JC Tints' WFR shop page · JC Tints on Film Slingers
Spotlight · Lowell, Arkansas
Nearly thirty years at the squeegee, more than twenty of them building one shop in Lowell, Arkansas — and a Tint-Off record the whole trade knows: second in the world in 2021, then first in 2022, then first again in 2024. Jason Teasley is the owner and lead installer at Tint Pro & Accessories, and when the biggest stages in window film hand out gold, his name is the one they keep calling.
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Facebook — Jason the Tint Man Teasley · Instagram — @tint_pro_and_accessories · Tint Pro & Accessories — Lowell, Arkansas
Spotlight · Valdosta, Georgia
Twenty-plus years in the trade, a Heat Shrink Battle championship, and a shop that Valdosta trusts with everything on wheels — Avery Wells is the owner of Preferred Window Tinting and one of the first trainers in the WFR network. This is the man himself, on camera and on the competition floor:
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From Avery's own page — a narrated Charger job at the shop · Instagram — @preferred_window_tint · Facebook — Preferred Window Tinting
Spotlight · Flat Glass · St. Marys, Georgia
Chuck Cochran has been in the film game since 1991 — Navy veteran, owner of Eastcoast Motorsports in St. Marys, Georgia and a leader of North American Tint, the flat-glass house in St. Augustine, Florida. A Tinter Battles Team World Champion and a flat glass trainer, he is one of the men the industry watches when safety film has to hold: his edge work — wet-glaze anchoring with Dow 995 — is the demonstration manufacturers put in front of other installers.
Spotlight · Las Vegas, Nevada
A four-time architectural world champion from a family shop that has been tinting since 1983 — Ricky Miller co-owns Green Valley Window Tint in Las Vegas with his brother Josh, and together they host Born to Tint, the podcast where the trade talks shop. These are his own channel's films:
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YouTube — Green Valley Window Tint / Born to Tint · Instagram — @greenvalleywindowtint · Green Valley Window Tint — Las Vegas
Spotlight · Bremen, Georgia
Rodney McClure has been tinting windows since 1984 — more than forty years behind the squeegee — and for the last several of them he has been filming his installs and giving the techniques away free on his own channel, The Filmbender. He runs Ace Window Tinting in Bremen, Georgia, and when the tools he wanted didn't exist, he designed them himself and founded Gasket Pro Tools. Four decades in, he's still on the glass, still teaching.
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The Filmbender — his YouTube channel · USING THE TINTING DOCTOR — stripping old purple film, defrost lines intact · Ace Window Tinting — his shop in Bremen · Gasket Pro Tools — the tools he designs · Window Film magazine — shop owners' foundational tips, Rodney quoted
Spotlight · Flat Glass · St. Petersburg, Florida
Jeremy Shapiro grew up in the window film business, learning the craft under his father — and in 2003 he founded High Impact Glass Solutions in the St. Petersburg area. Two decades on, his crews are the ones Tampa Bay calls for the hard flat-glass work: high-rises, schools, storefronts, and safety film that has to hold when it matters most.
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YouTube — High Impact Glass Solutions · Facebook — High Impact Glass Solutions · Instagram — @high_impact_glass_solutions · HighImpactGlassSolutions.com
Spotlight · Houston, Texas
Twenty-six years in window film and the building envelope. A former Vice President of the IWFA. The man who built a film company, sold it to XPEL, and ran architectural films for them around the world — and then, in 2026, came back and launched a brand of his own: ProLayers, out of Houston. As of today, ProLayers stands in the WFR partner family.
Spotlight · Georgia
A film installer since 1991 who got tired of broken sprayers costing him the day — so he rebuilt the tool himself, and the hose design he put in service in 1994 is still the one shops run today. The brand he launched on that fix, Tint Hozilla, builds the keg sprayers, hose assemblies, parts and tools installers reach for — and as of November 9, 2026, Tint Hozilla stands in the WFR partner family.
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TintHozilla.com · Autobahn's Product Innovator Series — Jeff Welch
Spotlight · Autobahn & Edge
Second-generation tinter. Territory Manager for Autobahn and Edge. And the rep the dealers describe the same way everywhere he goes: the one who shows up. Dave Dellinger is part of David Kratz’s house — and around here, that means family. Today the spotlight is his.
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Battle of the Daves — his SEMA 2025 shrink round (Instagram) · The dealer verdict — Shield By Design on Dave (Instagram) · Brenden Mazur’s tribute video (Facebook) · Tint Wizdom #139 — the “Dangerous Dave” interview · Autobahn — the day the two Daves tinted an Excursion
Spotlight · Houston, Texas
Most film-company CEOs watch the trade from a boardroom. David Kratz came up teaching it — a trainer with his hands on the film, the man his own team credits with inventing the balloon shrink — and he never put the heat gun down. Today he runs three of the industry's flagship brands: Autobahn, Hüper Optik USA and Edge. And when WFR started building, he didn't take a slot with an expiration date — he took a lifetime partnership. That's family.
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AutobahnWindowFilms.com · HuperOptikUSA.com · Instagram — @autobahn_films
Spotlight · Excelsior Springs, Missouri
A family name this industry has known for decades. Shawn Vogler of Vogler Enterprises — the family company behind SolarFX Window Films and Rogue Window Films — stands in the WFR partner family not once, but twice: two brands, both in. And when WFR opened its partner referral codes, the very first one ever handed out went to him. That's what we do here — we take care of our own.
Spotlight · Honolulu, Hawaii
Ronald McCullough owns Midnight Tinting in Honolulu, Hawaii — and on the competition floor, they call him the Pride of Hawaii. An XPEL Dealer Conference podium finisher and a World Championships doubles finalist, he is the tinter behind the "Air Peel" technique the trade now studies — and he spends his own time posting how-tos so other tinters can learn his tricks.
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Midnight Tinting — his shop in Honolulu · Instagram — @midnighttinting · Facebook — Midnight Tinting's reels
Spotlight · Beaverton, Oregon
Every classroom has an elder. Stan Foster of Alexia’s Window Tinting in Beaverton, Oregon, has tinted for more than forty years and spent most of them teaching — hands-on schools in Oregon and St. Louis, some 1,600 tinters taught across Europe, a 14-DVD Learning Library, and free video lessons that raised a generation of installers. The Black Sheep training center names him its first Spotlight Honoree: the man who taught the teachers.
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His full story — Black Sheep Spotlight Honoree No. 1 · Watch Stan teach — free, on YouTube
Spotlight · Gwangju, South Korea
Out of Gwangju, South Korea, ByeongYeol Park — the man behind Korea-Tinter and Optimum Window Film — is a world champion installer: gold at the 2018 IWFC Tint-Off and first place at the 2018 world tinting competition, with a 2014 IWFC bronze behind them. His channel teaches shrinking and installation to tinters in every time zone — and in 2024 he crossed the Pacific to stand with the family at the WFR Family Reunion in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Spotlight · Ranburne, Alabama
Ralph Van Pelt started tinting in a driveway in 1987 — a Nissan Pulsar, no warehouse, no safety net. Nearly forty years later he runs FlexFilm, the film brand and store he founded in 2011, built by an installer for installers — and he still teaches the trade on camera, one honest video at a time.
Spotlight · Orlando, Florida
Eliu Albelo — “Papi Eliu” — runs Best Deal Window Tint in Orlando, Florida, and trains hands-on in the WFR Training Network. Installer, competitor, creator: his torch-shrink and snap-shrink lessons travel the trade, and when Autobahn launched in Korea, it was Eliu demonstrating the torch shrink for the room.
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Train with Eliu in Orlando — WFR Training Network · YouTube — @papieliu
WFR Partners
These are our partners — the companies standing with WFR and the shops in this network. Tap a logo and go see them.