We’re honored to announce V8 Speed and Resto’s very own Kelle Oeste nominated for Specialty Equipment Market Association leadership position
V8 Speed and Resto Shop’s Owner / Operations Manager Kelle Oeste was recently nominated for possible election to the SEMA Board Of Directors. The process involved several rounds of surveys, questionnaires, and interviews, and we’re excited to announce she has made it to the final round, and has been added to the ballot for the upcoming May 28 vote!
Voting is open to all SEMA Member companies, and each will receive voting instructions in the mail ahead of the election. If you are the voting decision maker for your business, please review the materials and consider voting for Kelle.
You can learn more about Kelle, her views, and how she plans to help the companies and people that comprise the Automotive Aftermarket through service to the SEMA Board Of Directors by clicking the link www.ko4sema.com . If you find your views align and you feel Kelle will be a worthy representative and contributor to the SEMA Board Of Directors, please consider giving her your vote. Thank you!
This drivable dreamsicle conjures up summer days and sunsets at the beach with good times, good friends, and rock-n-roll!
It’s hard NOT to smile when you spy this ride, even if your eyes are burnin’ from the blazing Tangelo Pearl and Pearl White color scheme, polished trim, and sunburst glints off the Billet Specialties wheels. This Nova wagon came to visit the V8 Speed and Resto Shop for completion… it was a project that started in spare time, but needed more focus to see the finish line.
A Focus on Custom Style and Performance
This Nova is powered by an Edelbrock Pro-Flo fuel-injected 350 Chevy stuck to a Tremec 5-speed manual transmission. A Vintage Air Frontrunner keeps the spinning things inline up front, including the A/C compressor, alternator, steering pump, and all the black hard-coated pulleys. A lumpy cam is heard through the Hooker headers and custom pipes, while the Nova is more sure-footed thanks to a Heidt’s front end, Wilwood disc brakes, and Continental-wrapped Billet Specialties wheels.
Inside, a full diamond-stitched custom interior is the place to be, with amped-up sounds and cool air conditioning to keep the hot sun at bay.
We completed various tasks all over this car to bring it all together, and we all really dig it. It arrived to the V8 Speed and Resto Shop already painted with the interior in place, but it still needed a lot of help to be a reliable and fun cruiser. Click through the pics to see the story evolve and how we were able to wrap this one up for the owner. Let us know if we can help your project ride the wave to reality!
V8TV and the V8 Speed and Resto Shop celebrate in grand style with great cars at the 2024 MCACN show!
2024 marks the 20th Anniversary of V8TV and the V8 Speed and Resto Shop, and we’re honored to be at the 15th MCACN show sharing some of the Muscle Cars and Corvettes we’ve built along the way!
We’re fortunate to be involved with the MCACN show and team since the beginning, either displaying cars from our shop, covering the event for V8TV or Muscle Car Of The Week, producing DVDs of the event, producing promotional video about the show, handing out “celebrity” pick awards, or pulling covers off Featured Unveilings at the show as Emcee. It’s been an amazing partnership, and an event we look forward to each year. Sure, the cars are awesome, but the annual reunion of friends, family, and industry colleagues is really what makes the MCACN show a remarkably special event. And in a way, the MCACN show and the V8 Speed and Resto Shop grew up together.
Now that MCACN is old enough to drive, and our shop is now just about old enough to drink, we thought it would be fun to bring some special full builds from the V8 Speed and Resto Shop to add a little more color and horsepower to this unbelievable event. You may have seen these cars featured on our V8TV Television Show and YouTube channels, and we hope you enjoy seeing them in person as much as we enjoyed building them. We’re honored to share these special rides with MCACN attendees!
We can’t thank the MCACN team enough for the camaraderie and the opportunity to be a small part of this unbelievable show each year. Our V8 Speed family is grateful for the chance to build these cars for wonderful customers, and we are excited and humbled to display them at this world-class event to help celebrate our 20th Anniversary. Here’s to many more years of MCACN and V8 Speed and Resto!
We invite you to come and see these in person at the MCACN show!
Now Hiring Digital Marketer for Muscle Car Restoration Shop – Full Time
Are you an awesome story teller? We are seeking a talented and creative Digital Marketer to join our team! As a Digital Marketer, you will be responsible for creating compelling content and developing and implementing digital marketing strategies to drive brand awareness. You will work closely with the marketing team to create engaging content, manage social media platforms, and optimize digital campaigns. Help us share cool cars and automotive enthusiast culture!
Digital Marketer Responsibilities Include:
Create compelling stories and content centered around the cars in our shop, the people who own them, and the team renewing them.
Develop awesome marketing and advertising strategies to better position the company in the marketplace and reach target customers
Support marketing executives in organizing various online and in person projects, including speaking engagements, hosting gigs, and other third party productions. Schedule and participate in meetings with outside contacts.
Employ marketing analytics techniques to gather important data (social media, web analytics, rankings etc.)
Daily Marketing Department administrative tasks, calls, follow-up, meetings, etc. as required
Assist in the organizing of promotional events and traditional or digital campaigns and attend them to facilitate their success
Develop campaigns to promote digital media properties – TV / streaming services, video channels, podcasts, websites, social, radio. Communicate with each as needed.
Manage merchandise program including working with designers, 3rd party outsources, website store, promotions
Prepare and deliver promotional presentations
Compose and post online content on the company’s website and social media accounts, including distributing videos to key outlets, manufacturers, customers, and partners; podcast descriptions, keyword phrases, images
Create, analyze, and report on Google Ads campaigns. Make recommendations on campaign demographics and strategies.
Monitor social media posts, provide follow up commentary, identify leads, and promote good will of the shop and V8TV Productions media properties
Coordinate with live events to plan exhibits, collateral material, customer vehicles, promotion of our shop, etc.
Attending selected live events as a representative of our company, both as attendee and exhibitor
Working with manufacturers and distributors to cross promote our shop and media, including working with inside parts team to identify marketing / branding opportunities
Identifying new opportunities to reach new markets, proposing campaigns, implementation
Write marketing and advertising literature (brochures, press releases etc) to augment the company’s presence in the market
Communicate directly with clients and encourage trusting relationships
Reformat existing website / YouTube channel thumbnails, layouts, descriptions to be current and SEO friendly
Coordinate with outside video and audio production customers regarding 3rd party video and podcast production projects, scheduling, booking crews, booking guests, status updates, deliverables, etc.
Monitoring the latest technologies and AI to assist in analysis, content creation, market positioning, effective lead generation
Create partnerships with other content creators to cross promote and grow channels
Create digital newsletters and email blasts
Sharing content with sponsors, vendors, and potential sponsors and advertisers when mentioned
Market employment opportunities for shop
Create and implement PR communication for community involvement (local and industry)
Skills:
Proven experience in Digital Marketing
Graphic Design
Photography
Creative Copywriting
Social Media reporting/analytics
Ability to manage all aspects of events
Good understanding of office management and marketing principles
Demonstrable ability to multi-task and adhere to deadlines
Well-organized with a customer-oriented approach
Good knowledge of market research techniques and databases
Excellent knowledge of Google Apps, marketing computer software and online applications (CRM tools, Online analytics, Google Adwords etc.)
Knowledge of photo editing software (Photoshop preferred)
Video editing skills a plus (Adobe Premiere preferred)
Excellent communication and people skills
High School diploma; BSc in Marketing, Business or relevant field is a strong advantage
Knowledge of enthusiast automotive market is a big plus
Job Type: Full-Time
Salary: Based on experience
Preferred Experience:
Marketing: 3 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Red Bud IL
On site in our place of business, some remote opportunities
We offer a 40 hour work week with optional overtime available. We pay holidays, vacation, and provide health insurance, 401K, life insurance, dental & vision. Excellent opportunities for training and career growth. Great crew to work with. Excellent working environment with an innovative team ready to set your creativity free!
If you have a deep love for classic cars, take pride in your craftsmanship, and possess the skills to bring engines back to life, we want to hear from you! At the V8 Speed and Resto Shop, you’ll have the opportunity to work on remarkable projects and collaborate with fellow automotive enthusiasts.
About The V8 Speed and Resto Shop:
We value the well-being of our Team and their families above all else, and we all focus on generating the best employee and customer experience possible. Our core values center around the way we treat people and would like to be treated. We live and breathe classics, customs, restored and modified muscle cars, restomods, pro-touring cars, and more at the V8 Speed and Resto Shop. We take pride in meticulously restoring and customizing vintage vehicles, and our commitment to craftsmanship and attention to detail sets us apart in the industry. We understand the significance of these cars to their owners and treat them as such. Our team is composed of highly skilled professionals who share a common passion for automotive excellence.
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.
The V8 Speed and Resto Shop is a great working environment with awesome teammates and lots of cool tools and equipment to grow your abilities. We have a backlog of work and are always looking to build better, more creative hot rods, customs, and muscle cars. We are located in a small, safe midwestern town of Red Bud Illinois.
If you want consistent, rewarding work every day, every week, building award winning show cars this is a job for you! We are hiring for this Digital Marker job opening now.
Fill Out This Job Application To Schedule An Interview Today!
The V8 Speed and Resto Shop is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The V8 Speed and Resto Shop does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
This sinister black 1930 Ford Model A rumbled in to the V8 Speed and Resto Shop with a few issues like a locked-up steering column. We’re here to help!
V8 Speed and Resto Shop Parts Manager Brian Wibbenmeyer joins Mike “Q-Ball” Clarke and Kevin Oeste on the latest V8 Radio Podcast! Brian and Q are the parts-finding powerhouse that keeps the V8 Speed and Resto Shop rolling, and although we’ve mentioned him on the show before, it was high time to have him as a guest. Brian has lots of great stories from car events, the G-Body life, and even brought some great Automotive Trivia! Get it all in this special episode of the V8 Radio Podcast!
Now Hiring Marketing and Sales Assistant for Muscle Car Restoration Shop – Full Time
We’re looking for a Sales and Marketing Assistant who is a highly motivated, creative individual with experience and a passion for connecting with current and future customers. That passion comes through as she/he engages with customers on a daily basis, with the ultimate goal of building relationships to help with promoting our company in a positive and exciting manner.
This position works with both the Sales and Marketing Teams.
Sales Assistant Responsibilities Include:
Taking calls, providing updates, or messages for sales team
Follow up with sales leads, inquiries, and updates
Scheduling calls and meetings with sales team and technicians
Distributing information to customers and leads
Photos
Inspection results
Video updates
Following up with sales leads in generated on social platforms
Recording notes from technician inspection calls into spreadsheets
Assisting Culture Coordinator with Customer Appreciation Programs
Assisting sales team with correspondence distribution
Marketing Responsibilities Include:
Daily Marketing department administrative tasks
Support marketing executives in organizing various online and in person projects
Assist in the organizing of promotional events and traditional or digital campaigns and attend to them to facilitate their success
Compose and post online content on the company’s website and social media accounts, including distributing videos to key outlets
Working with manufacturers to cross promote
Communicate directly with clients and encourage trusting relationships
Skills:
Proven experience as a marketing assistant
Graphic Design
Photography
Creative Copywriting / Use of AI tools
Social Media reporting/analytics
Ability to manage all aspects of events
Good understanding of office management and marketing principles
Demonstrable ability to multi-task and adhere to deadlines
Well-organized with a customer-oriented approach
Excellent knowledge of Google Apps
Knowledge of photo editing software (Adobe Lightroom preferred)
Excellent communication and people skills
High School diploma; BSc in Marketing, Business or relevant field is a strong advantage
Knowledge of enthusiast automotive market is a big plus
Job Type: Full-Time
Salary: Based on experience
Preferred Experience:
Marketing: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: Red Bud IL
On site in our place of business, some remote opportunities
We offer a 40 hour work week with optional overtime available. We pay holidays, vacation, and provide health insurance, 401K, life insurance, dental & vision. Excellent opportunities for training and career growth. Great crew to work with. Excellent working environment with an innovative team ready to set your creativity free!
If you have a deep love for classic cars, take pride in your craftsmanship, and possess the skills to bring engines back to life, we want to hear from you! At the V8 Speed and Resto Shop, you’ll have the opportunity to work on remarkable projects and collaborate with fellow automotive enthusiasts.
About The V8 Speed and Resto Shop:
We value the well-being of our Team and their families above all else, and we all focus on generating the best employee and customer experience possible. Our core values center around the way we treat people and would like to be treated. We live and breathe classics, customs, restored and modified muscle cars, restomods, pro-touring cars, and more at the V8 Speed and Resto Shop. We take pride in meticulously restoring and customizing vintage vehicles, and our commitment to craftsmanship and attention to detail sets us apart in the industry. We understand the significance of these cars to their owners and treat them as such. Our team is composed of highly skilled professionals who share a common passion for automotive excellence.
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.
The V8 Speed and Resto Shop is a great working environment with awesome teammates and lots of cool tools and equipment to grow your abilities. We have a backlog of work and are always looking to build better, more creative hot rods, customs, and muscle cars. We are located in a small, safe midwestern town of Red Bud Illinois.
If you want consistent, rewarding work every day, every week, building award winning show cars this is a job for you! We are hiring for this Sales and Marketing Assistant job opening now.
Fill Out This Job Application To Schedule An Interview Today!
The V8 Speed and Resto Shop is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The V8 Speed and Resto Shop does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
This ’65 C10 doesn’t just look cool… check out the factory air conditioning (more in video!)
This stunning 1965 Chevrolet C10 pickup truck isn’t your average classic! This beauty boasts a powerful 350 V8 engine, automatic transmission, AND factory-installed air conditioning – a rare option in these early C10s. Check out the unique center dash vents that kept this truck cool back in the day.
Looking for a classic car or truck restoration shop that can handle the unique features of your vehicle? Look no further than the V8 Speed & Resto Shop in Red Bud, IL! Our team of experts is passionate about preserving the history of classic cars and trucks, with the knowledge and skills to tackle any project, from routine maintenance to full restorations.
In this video, we take a closer look at this special 1965 C10, showcasing its features and the restoration work performed by V8 Speed & Resto Shop. See how we carefully looked after this classic truck, ensuring it continues to turn heads for years to come!
Learn more about this special truck in the video!
Want your classic car or truck to be next? Contact V8 Speed & Resto Shop today!
The V8 Speed & Resto Shop is a full-service classic car and muscle car restoration service ready to perform everything from simple maintenance on vintage cars to full frame-off restorations and modifications. Whether you are seeking a stock restoration, a pro-touring muscle car, or a custom restomod, the V8 Speed & Resto Shop in Red Bud, IL, can help. Contact us today to put the V8 crew to work for you. Transport services are available.
It’s no secret that classic cars and trucks hold personal connections to good times and the special people we’ve shared them with over the years. Sometimes, you have to act to be sure a classic doesn’t “get away”. In this case, the owner of this cool 1966 GMC pickup truck bought this same truck twice for that very reason!
Enjoyed By Generations
The GMC’s owner told us: “I bought this pickup for my daughter because she wanted an old truck like Dad. (I have a 58 Chevy Apache). She enjoyed driving it & showing her friends and used it as a photo prop, but wanted to sell it at one point, sooo I bought it from her – yes, I’ve bought the truck twice. Truth is, it reminds me of my Grandpa’s truck & I look forward to retiring someday & showing them both off.”
It is still powered by the inline 6-cylinder engine and is mostly original, and that’s one of the cool features of the truck. So many of these were worked hard, and while we love modified and restomod pickups, it’s always cool to see one that is authentic to the original design.
We’re honored he brought the Jimmy to the V8 Speed and Resto Shop for some maintenance and TLC. We’re replacing the bed wood, performing some mechanical fixes and taking care of some other loose ends on the truck so the owner can enjoy it more. Follow along in the pics below for the whole story.
