{"id":22394,"date":"2017-06-14T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/?p=22394"},"modified":"2017-09-14T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:37:04","slug":"passion-behind-the-detailer-daniel-wendell-automotive-aesthetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/passion-behind-the-detailer-daniel-wendell-automotive-aesthetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion Behind the Detailer: Daniel Wendell &#8211; Automotive Aesthetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AA__BoxLogo_Black-1024x356.png\" alt=\"Automotive Aesthetic Logo\" width=\"1024\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-22395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AA__BoxLogo_Black-1024x356.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AA__BoxLogo_Black-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AA__BoxLogo_Black-768x267.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was recently scrolling through a few detailing groups on Facebook and I came across a video from one of our great wholesale customers, Daniel Wendell of Automotive Aesthetic. Shortly after starting this video, I realized that I had never seen a video capture the passion most detailers feel like this before. I contacted Daniel in hopes that he would like to share this video with our Ask-A-Pro readers and to my excitement he obliged. Read an intro from Daniel below and I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My name is Daniel Wendell and I own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automotiveaesthetic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Automotive Aesthetic<\/a>. Ever since before I could remember, I had a strong affinity for cars. Growing up in a &#8220;car family&#8221;, I was predisposed to be a car person. My affinity for cars wasn&#8217;t just a casual interest, it was a compulsion to learn and be around anything with four wheels. Being a young kid with a desire to help and learn, I always found myself washing or cleaning my family\u2019s cars, so naturally when I needed extra money I was always washing cars for my family or neighbors. Eventually I found the online forums, and only then did I realize what the possibilities were. <\/p>\n<p>I bought my first car when I was a 14 with money I had saved. It was a tired run down 1977 Porsche 911. It needed a lot of work, but I saw something that none of my friends did in that car: Potential. That is the way I see every car now. I focus on what I can do to help cars, and I make my living doing that. Many people go their entire lives without doing a job that truly gives them satisfaction; I am the outlier. I found what I love to do at a young age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ig7aJF52g7s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ig7aJF52g7s\">YouTube<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Video Description: I started down the path that would eventually become my chosen vocation when I was twelve years old. I didn&#8217;t know what I was doing, I didn&#8217;t know why I was doing it, but I couldn&#8217;t stop. During my fourth year at the University of Virginia I created Automotive Aesthetic\u2014 your friendly, neighborhood, detailing studio. A year and a half later, I still have the passion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Wendell of Automotive Aesthetic shares the passion many detailers feel about their profession!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":22398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,27,1412,1930],"tags":[1885,1884,1883],"class_list":{"0":"post-22394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-industry-interviews","8":"category-professional-work","9":"category-running-a-detailing-business","10":"category-videos","11":"tag-automotive-aesthetic","12":"tag-daniel-wendell","13":"tag-passion"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AutomotiveAestheticFeatured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kPO7-5Pc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22394"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22581,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22394\/revisions\/22581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}