BODYGUARD ARMORING

     Wayne Brown, owner of Bodyguard Armoring, is a second generation craftsman. He began rebuilding and customizing cars after an apprenticeship at his father's repair shop in San Antonio beginning when he was just 14. He rebuilt his first "totalled" car by age 17 while still in high school. He holds ASE and ICAR certifications in autobody and painting.

He earned a military Class "A" aircraft TIG welding certification repairing gas turbine engines at Turbine Support in San Antonio.

He is an expert  in composite materials laminating. He built Bass Boats at PowerCat boats, manufactured his own brand of canoes and Kayaks as Brownline Canoes, and rebuilt totaled powerboats and sailboats after Hurricane Alicia at his shop in Austin.

He opened an exotic and high end import car repair shop in Austin in 1980 rebuilding and repairing wrecked BMW, Mercedes and Porsches, and In 1990 began building armored vehicles as Bodyguard Armoring  at the request of a customer who needed a "Bulletproof" vehicle. 

His many years of experience as a custom car builder make Bodyguard's armored cars the best performing, most beautiful armored cars you will find.

Since 1990 Bodyguard armored products, vehicles, personal armor or architectural armor, have been in use here in the U.S., Mexico, Peru, Colombia, China, Haiti, Uganda, Nigeria, Israel and South Africa.

This news clip was done in 2003 at Bodyguard Armoring's shop in East Austin by KXAN TV Channel 36.

Watch it here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vqBq7QXYHk&feature=channel_page

 

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By Marty Toohey
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Monday, January 05, 2009

This summer, the police department in Maine's largest city loaded an aging assault vehicle onto the back of a flatbed truck and hauled it 2,100 miles to Central Texas. Police officials in Portland had heard about a man who might be able to get the vehicle working again.
His name is Wayne Brown, and over two-plus decades working in an East Austin garage, he had established a national reputation for turning the Jeeps and BMWs of the wealthy and the worried into armored vehicles. In a 1991 demonstration that made local news, Brown arranged for an Austin police officer to shoot up a Jeep that he had modified for a New York client. Neither a .308 sniper rifle nor an AK-47 fired at close range could penetrate the doors or windows. Later, Brown's work was featured on the Discovery Channel.
"Nothing is bulletproof," Brown said recently, pointing to that Jeep door, which he kept, "but this will stop most rifle bullets."

Brown is now rehabilitating a type of police assault vehicle called a Peacekeeper.
The Peacekeeper was created by the Cadillac-Gage Corp. in the early 1980s for the Air Force, which bought almost 600 of the vehicles. The company basically made the Peacekeeper by cutting away the body of a Dodge Ramcharger truck and replacing it with an armored body. In the late 1980s, the Air Force gave away almost all of them to law enforcement agencies across the country, including the police departments in Austin and Round Rock and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
By the early 2000s, one given to the Killeen Police Department was worn out.
In early 2003, the Killeen Police Department offered an intriguing challenge: Take a brand-new heavy-duty Dodge Ram 4x4 pickup, cut away the body, graft the body of the Peacekeeper onto the Dodge Ram truck chassis and make the whole thing work like new.

"To the best of our knowledge, this type of conversion has never been attempted or done," Killeen police officials wrote in a 2004 letter to Brown.

Killeen picked it up in September 2003. The department's SWAT team uses it almost daily.

In 2006, Brown did a nearly identical job for the Rochester, Minn., police department.

The U.S. Defense Department lists the replacement cost of a Peacekeeper at about $230,000, but Brown says he can rebuild one for between $110,000 and $140,000.

One worn out 1981 Peacekeeper

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One Brand new FORD F550 4x4

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 a lot of Experience, talent and hard work

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The world's first "SUPER PEACEKEEPER"

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