V8 Speed & Resto Shop’s Kelle and Kevin Oeste were surprised and humbled to be presented with the 2018 Enthusiast Of The Year Award from the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals show in Chicago. Kevin Oeste: “This is such a great industry, driven by passion, and we’re grateful and fortunate for outstanding team members in our shop and wonderful customers that share the passion for the hobby and industry. It’s hard not to be enthusiastic about it! Thank you MCACN!”

V8TV’s Kevin Oeste once again hosted the SEMA Central Stage at the 2018 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, interviewing dozens of industry notables and celebrities over the course of the week. Here, he chats with Jay Leno about the show, his car care products, and other nonsense. From the SEMA YouTube channel.

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A smooth firewall is just one way to make the underhood area look clean on your Muscle Car or Classic.   In this case, the hole left by the original heater was filled with a sheetmetal panel and the welds were all smoothed to make for an undetectable install.    A new air conditioning system from Vintage Air will someday be installed, and it does not require the large hole in the firewall.   Below you can see how the car looked originally.    

Original Firewall

Our crew performs these kinds of metalwork projects routinely at the V8 Speed & Resto Shop.    Contact us today at 314.783.8325 to discuss your project today!

Congrats to our friend Al on another car show victory with his ’69 Chevelle! It seems every time he takes it out he brings home some kind of award. This time, it was scoring 994/1000 in the Street Stock / Modified Gold class at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Chicago! He’s also taken First Place at The Hill Car Show in St. Louis, People’s Choice at the Waterloo Optimist Club Car Show in IL, and many other Best Paint, First In Class, and People’s Choice Awards at shows all around. Way to go Al, your Chevelle is one of the favorites we’ve restored here at the V8 Speed & Resto Shop!

 

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The V8 Speed & Resto Shop Crew is honored to have the blue 1965 Chevelle restored in our shop be chosen as the lead car on the http://www.chevelles.com website!    Chevelles.com is perhaps the definitive Chevelle oriented website, and they would naturally choose a shining example of the great Chevrolet Muscle Car as their lead image, and we’re excited they’ve chosen our work.   Very cool!    If you don’t have a membership on their forum site, you are missing out on great information and a fantastic enthusiast community.   Check it out today!   http://www.chevelles.com 

1965 Chevelle SS

The V8 Speed & Resto Shop crew is honored to learn that KruzinUSA.com just listed our shop as one of their top 25 in the country!     As part of their new Digital Hot Rod Builders Mall, they have selected what they believe are the top 25 shops in the country, and we’re unbelievably humbled to be included with some of the most talented shops in the business.   Go check out http://www.kruzinusa.com or their Facebook Page to learn more about their Digital Mall, event coverage, videos, and more! 

Thanks to Street Muscle Magazine for their feature on the ’69 Camaro we updated in the V8 Speed & Resto Shop with parts from Detroit SpeedBaer BrakesCurrie EnterprisesFORGELINEHolley Performance ProductsToyo TiresAutoMeter Products, Inc., and more! #protouring #69Camaro #v8speedshopTo better handle the 540 BBC’s power, V8 Speed and Resto Shop added a total Detroit Speed QUADRALink rear suspension and front subframe, wheel tubs, a Currie Enterprises rear axle, Forgeline wheels, and Toyo Tires.

https://www.streetmusclemag.com/news/building-a-pro-touring-69-camaro-with-a-540-bbc/

The 1968 Chevrolet Camaro built by the V8 Speed and Resto Shop is rolling on a new set of Rocket Racing Attack wheels, their pro-touring style flow-formed forged wheel debuted at the SEMA Show. Our team was honored to have the RELOADED Camaro make a second SEMA Show appearance, this time in the Rocket Racing display! Courtney Hansen dug the car and the new wheels and who wouldn’t?