Your Volkswagen & Porsche Restoration Shop

Just a few skills involved include disassembly, sandblasting, rough metal work, welding, straightening the body, rust mitigation, painting, polishing, electrical wiring, pan work, transmission work, engine building, interior and upholstery, and assembly of the finished car. We’ve been at this for a long time. Every krew member goes through extensive on-the-job training. This long in the restoration business, we’ve figured out what works best. We’ve also learned what doesn’t work at all. Most importantly, we aim to delight anyone who lays eyes on one of our builds.

We’re professional Porsche and VW restorers, working on classic cars full-time (and then some). Still, it usually takes around a year to complete a vehicle. Of course, we do have this level of perfectionistic OCD that means it’s nothing for us to spend a hundred hours or more just on paint and polish. Most people would say it looks perfect. But we’re never completely satisfied with it!. Who knows how long it would take for an air-cooled restoration project when it’s squeezed into your ‘spare’ time!

Come for a visit to the shop, and you’ll see what it takes to do a restoration. You’ll see walls lined with shelves full of parts, tools, and machines. Every single one of them are needed at some point in the restoration process. A shop tour is a great way to see a variety of projects in process.

Got Space? Tools? Know-How?

We don’t know of too many VW and Porsche enthusiasts who’ve got the space, equipment, or tools to complete a project like this. And can you imagine how tired your family would get of never being able to use the garage because your hobby car is in there? Worse yet, can you imagine how your blood pressure would shoot through the roof if someone bumped or scratched your ride’s new paint job that you just spent months trying to get just right?

There are some excellent books out there for do-it-yourselfers who want to take on a project like this. There are also tons of videos showing how to do certain pieces of the project. You can probably even find someone to give you advice on your restoration if you participate in local classic car clubs.

But here’s the thing… These are OLD cars.

It’s nearly impossible to know exactly what you’ll need to do in a restoration project until you’re into it. Maybe your Beetle had an unfortunate meeting with a tree. Maybe rust has been eating your Porsche for the past few decades. Or maybe someone, somewhere went wild with the Bondo (by the way, we don’t do that!). It even happens sometimes here at the shop – we take a vehicle down to bare metal and then stand there in shock for a moment, wondering why someone did what they did to it. (True story – one Beetle came in from Missouri and during disassembly, we discovered someone had used CEMENT to try to repair a heater channel!)

Good as new… Only better.

One of our goals is that when we complete your restoration and after another forty years or so your classic VW is due for another redo, whoever does it then says, “Wow! Whoever worked on this one before did some fine work!”

At Airkooled Kustoms, we’re more than a little obsessive with the care we pour into your project. We know that every classic car or bus restoration we touch means way more to its owner than being “just a car”. We understand that not only are we working with vintage steel; we’re working with our clients’ memories and dreams. We take that responsibility very seriously.

So, if you’ve been running searches looking for Porsche or VW restoration near me, and you’re anywhere in North America, you’ve got your answer. We’ve had the pleasure of completing restoration projects for clients all over the country. Some folks are near enough to come in for a face-to-face tour. Others just ship their vehicles to us. Still others ask us to source their project car, bus, or truck for them.