About The V8 Speed and Resto Shop

The mission of the V8 Speed & Resto Shop is simple… to connect people to the best times of their lives through things with wheels.  

This could mean restoring a family heirloom classic car to reconnect with family experiences from the past, or maybe helping a person get behind the wheel of a Muscle Car they always wanted.    Maybe it’s obtaining a similar car to what Dad had back in the day – you know, the one you used to steer on his lap before your feet could reach the pedals.    Perhaps it’s helping someone get their old high school car safe and roadworthy again for a new generation to enjoy.     

Perhaps it is dreaming up the ultimate show car and touring it around the national circuit, or building a track-capable high performance car to enjoy on weekend blasts.  Whatever it is, the V8 Speed & Resto Shop team can help make it happen.    Whether you’re ready to reconnect with the good old days, or you’re looking to drive into a whole new world of experiences, the V8 Team is ready to help.     

The V8 Speed & Resto Shop, located 1/2 hour away from St. Louis in Red Bud, IL, is a full service Classic Car and Muscle Car restoration shop with a talented staff of restoration technicians ready to build your dream car.

V8 Speed and Resto Shop provides a variety of services for classic car restoration, muscle car restoration, and automotive restoration. Some of the services we offer include:

• Custom car design: The V8 Speed and Resto Shop can bring your custom dream car to life. We work with talented designers to create the unique vision and performance goals for your car, then set our talented team in motion to build it!
• Custom Metal Fabrication: From rust repair to complete panel replacement and fabrication, the V8 Speed and Resto Shop can do it all. We fabricate custom hoods, body modifications, consoles and interior parts, engine and under hood brackets, cross members, exhaust, and more.
• Bodywork and paint: V8 Speed and Resto Shop can perform all of the bodywork and paint work necessary to restore your classic car or muscle car to its original condition, or create a complete one-of-a-kind custom hot rod from thin air. They have a team of experienced bodyworkers and painters who use the latest techniques and equipment to ensure that your car looks its best.
• Mechanical work: V8 Speed and Resto Shop can also perform all of the mechanical work necessary to restore your classic car or muscle car to its original condition, or take it to a new level with modern engine and driveline integrations. They have a team of experienced mechanics who can rebuild engines, transmissions, and other mechanical components.
• Interior restoration: V8 Speed and Resto Shop can also restore the interior of your classic car or muscle car. They can reupholster seats, repair or replace carpeting, and restore other interior trim.
• Custom interior work: Our interior shop also creates custom consoles, custom seats and covers, door panels, headliners, lighting, custom audio, electronics installation, and just about anything you can think of.. in house.
• Electrical work: V8 Speed and Resto Shop can also perform electrical work on your classic car or muscle car. They can diagnose and repair electrical problems, and they can also upgrade the electrical system to modern standards.
• Documenting your restoration: V8 Speed and Resto Shop also documents your restoration process with photos and videos of your car throughout the restoration process, and they can also create a restoration report that details the work that was done.

In addition to these services, V8 Speed and Resto Shop also offers a variety of other services, such as:

• Parts and accessories: V8 Speed and Resto Shop manages new and original restoration and high performance parts and accessories for classic cars and muscle cars. They can help you find the parts you need to restore your car, and they can also offer advice on which parts are best for your car.
• Shipping and storage: Through their trusted partnerships, V8 Speed and Resto Shop can also help you ship your car to and from their shop. Storage is available for cars that are not currently being restored.

The V8 Speed & Resto Shop has turned out some of the highest-quality “Pro-Touring” style Muscle Cars around, many of which have been featured in major automotive enthusiast magazines and have won awards at national shows and events. Home of the V8TV Muscle Car Restoration Television Show, and the Muscle Car Of The Week video series! 

You can’t win without a great team, and we’re extremely grateful for the talents of these passionate people who bring their “A” game every day to help turn our customer’s visions into reality.   The V8 Speed & Resto Shop Crew is a group of dedicated craftsmen and artisans who deliver top quality and attention to detail in everything they do. The team is comprised of active enthusiasts who have cool cars of their own, so they fully understand and appreciate the personal significance of our customers cars, and treat them with the care and respect they deserve. We’re grateful for wonderful customers who entrust their prized classics to us, and for our exceptional crew who appreciates their significance and the opportunity to reconnect people with special times of their lives through things with wheels.

V8 Speed and Resto Shop Purpose:

We believe in the importance of classic vehicles not only as historical objects, but for their personal significance to enthusiasts and their families, and for the joy they bring to the world.   

We believe in the importance of the automobile industry as a workspace where people of all skill sets and in all areas of business can thrive working around special vehicles that ignite their passion.  

We believe that dream cars can and do exist, and that our team is here to build them. 

V8 Speed and Resto Shop Mission Statement:

To connect people with the best times of their lives through things with wheels.  

Values Statement:

The V8 Speed and Resto Shop achieves our goals and the goals of our customers by applying the following core values to everything we do:

• Happiness
• Quality
• Respect
• Honesty
• Loyalty
• Teamwork
• Passion
• Innovation

V8 Speed and Resto Shop Vision Statement:

To ensure that automobile enthusiasts will always have a trusted, talented, and passionate source to provide services they need to enjoy their special vehicles.  To always provide a healthy, safe, creative, and respectful workplace where our team can enhance their skills and abilities and enjoy satisfying and rewarding careers. 

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Contact the V8 Speed & Resto Shop with all your Classic or Muscle Car needs today!

V8 SPEED AND RESTO SHOP

817 S. MAIN STREET – RED BUD, IL 62278