Cornwall technician qualifies for World Championships

Anthony Fryett from Autostyl in Cornwall is the first finalist in the international Automechanika Body & Paint World Championships.

Anthony impressed the panel of judges at Automechanika Birmingham with both his design idea and his painting skills – which he applied to a bonnet.

He will be joined by five other national winners for the grand finale in Frankfurt in September 2020.

The next round of the competition will be taking place soon at Automechanika Johannesburg, with the remaining finalists being chosen at the upcoming Automechanika shows in Shanghai, Dubai, Mexico City and Frankfurt.

The international Automechanika Body & Paint World Championships kicked off successfully in Birmingham in June. Anthony won the first stage of the competition with an elaborately designed car hood, making him the first person to qualify for the grand finale at Automechanika Frankfurt from 8 to 12 September 2020.

He and the other competitors were each called upon to create an elaborately designed car hood in a design inspired by the host nation, the United Kingdom. The competition was supported by the sponsors Octoral, DeBeer Refinish and SATA.

The result: a gallery of extremely diverse artworks on car hoods that ranged from a Union Jack flag and a visualisation of Brexit to a poppy commemorating victims of the First World War. The hoods were exhibited in the new Body & Paint Zone of Automechanika Birmingham and judged by a panel of experts.

Visitors to the fair also had the chance to vote for a people’s choice winner.

Anthony spent some 100 hours working on the design that won the panel’s approval. The hood bore a very clear message, ‘British culture is ever changing. We are colourful, vibrant, bold…global.’

His colourful motif was created from geometric shapes.