Car restoration shop services - for your classic or vintage auto
The Metal Surgeon has a car restoration workshop located in Denver, Colorado that contains equipment and skilled professionals necessary for a complete 'frame off' car restoration.
Our Denver restoration shop does work on classic cars, vintage cars, hot rods, street rods, trucks, muscle cars, European sports cars (Porsche, Ferrari, etc.), even bicycles and motorcycles. We work on any make and model older than 1980. We have experience creating factory-correct restos, hot rods, and resto-mods!
We would like to help with your restoration project by providing complete service from disassembly, media blasting, metalwork, fabrication, bodywork, through paint and assembly, or just metalwork and fabrication.
We offer the following classic car restoration services:
Metal fabrication - aluminum and steel
- Custom or 'one off' panels
- Complete car body build (body in white) in aluminum or steel
- Custom shape work
- Recreating or copying an original panel (for those panels/fenders/etc that you cannot buy reproductions)
Welding
- AC/DC TIG welding (aluminum or steel)
- Oxygen acetylene gas welding
- MIG welding
Paint
- We work with several vendors who can provide different levels of finish, tailored to your unique project
Mechanical/Electrical
- Rivet work, solid riveting aluminum, copper, steel, etc.
- All chassis mechanical work - brake/suspension conversions and rebuilds
- Electrical - installation or problem solving
- Air ride installation - including tanks, bags, sensors, compressor
- Engine swaps - LS motor, Coyote motor, Chevy 350
Precision body finishing
- Metal finishing - eliminate body filler and rescue original panels
- Lead work - we have over 20 years of experience lead loading
Custom car restoration services
If you can imagine it, we can build it out of metal. This is a short list of custom fabrications:
- custom design and fabrication of an entire rear end for a Unimog to be used as a land mine investigation vehicle,
- a custom style line for a Ford,
- a custom hood scoop for a Sunbeam Tiger,
- customized hoods (lengthened, custom scoops, etc.),
- several versions of custom dashboards (to fit modern or just custom styled components into the dash),
- custom widened wheel arches for a Chevy truck,
- custom tail lights grafted in seamlessly
- a few styles of custom grille inserts and radiator shells
Project Management
Whether your vintage car is a daily driver or a show quality concourse vehicle, we can cater to your car restoration budget.
We like to keep our clients informed of every step that is taken on their cars. Our primary goal is to get your classic car repaired or customized in line with your vision. Regular assessments and appraisals of the agreed work remaining will take place at the interval you feel comfortable with. Clients are always welcome to drop by the shop and take a look.
Billing
Shop rate is $95/hour. Materials and parts that we purchase are marked up 15%.
Clients are invoiced every two weeks or every month. Each invoice is detailed explaining every task undertaken and performed. Invoices are accompanied by photos documenting work completed. Photos are taken daily of each project.
To get started
1. email us photos of your project (Valerie@TheMetalSurgeon.com), especially the areas you know need work. OR call us and schedule a time to bring it by, if you are local and it's drivable.
2. we'll discuss your goals for the project, and then work up a ballpark estimate. we may provide several options to fit your budget.
3. if you like what you see, we'll put you on our waitlist. if your project is local, we can inspect the car in person.
4. we'll stay in touch as your scheduled slot approaches.
Contact The Metal Surgeon in Denver for more information (email: Valerie@TheMetalSurgeon.com) or phone us at 303-761-4884! Look under the “About” page at the top for more information.
