Quintin and Tonya Storesund are proud of their business.
Deer accidents are keeping the Storesunds busy in Bagley.
By Rich Wicks | Panora Times, June 2025
Quintin and Tonya Storesund are the owners and sole employees of an auto body repair shop named Collision Concepts, in Bagley. As the business name would suggest, much of the work completed at Collision Concepts is to repair damage caused by any type of impact between a vehicle and anything else. In Guthrie County, many of those impacts involve deer.
Collision Concepts is located at 101 Main St. next to Highway 141 in Bagley.
“With all of the deer running around, that’s the majority of what we’re doing here,” Tonya said. “Sometimes, we’re booked out two or three months, but with it being a one-man show, he does the whole job from start to finish.”
The shop is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and closed on weekends. While Quintin does the repairs, Tonya handles everything else. The business phone number is 641-427-5831.
“We opened up in 2003. It’s just him and I — a husband-and-wife team,” Tonya said. “I handle the writing of the estimates, dealing with insurance companies, billing, and keeping the customers up to date.”
The Storesunds have lived at Lake Panorama since 2000 and have operated their business in Bagley since 2003. They have three children, with one still at home, and two grandsons.
Quintin earned a degree in the auto body program from Northwest Iowa Community College, but he says his education is “never-ending.” As vehicles have become more computerized, sensors and cameras are installed in many locations as safety enhancements. Because of this, auto body work has become much more complex. To deal with the ever-changing challenges, Quintin maintains an I-CAR (Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair) Gold Class certification.
Another significant part of Quintin’s work is calibration, which means the aligning and adjusting of sensors and cameras to ensure proper functioning of features (such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, lane-departure warning and automatic emergency braking), especially after repairs or replacements. This is often true even if the sensor or camera wasn’t replaced.
Body work in progress at Collision Concepts.
“A lot of times, if we’ve removed a front bumper and put it back on, we may have to recalibrate it,” Tonya said.
To handle this work, the Storesunds added a separate building directly across the street from their shop specifically for calibration. Tonya explained why a separate area was needed.
“You’ve got to have a lot of room around the vehicle in order for the calibration to work,” she said.
According to Tonya, many customers do not realize that Collision Repairs offers windshield repair.
“We do windshield repairs, both the entire windshield replacement and also rock-chip repairs,” she said.
Collision Concepts also offers specialty products to protect vehicles from specific damages.
“We also do 3M ceramic kits and 3M paint protection film. It’s a clear film that goes along the rocker panels of your vehicle,” Tonya said. “It’s great for vehicles that drive on gravel roads.”
Tonya added that some of what Quintin works on isn’t auto body work.
“He does do some mechanic stuff,” she said. “He’ll do radiators and condensers, but as far as engines and oil changes, no.”
In years past, the Storesunds have sometimes employed others to help handle the workload, and that is a possibility they may consider again when the time is right.
“We always have the room and equipment to expand if that right person comes along,” Quintin said.
