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Car restoration for Feilding


Feilding is about an hour from our workshop at Kuku, down through the Manawatū and onto State Highway 1 south of Levin.

Farm sheds hide good cars

A lot of the best projects in the Manawatū have been sitting in a farm shed for twenty or thirty years. They're usually drier than a coastal car, which is a genuine head start — but they've also often been stored on dirt or grass, which is hard on floors and chassis rails from underneath.

Either way, the first useful step is an honest assessment before you spend anything on paint. We'll tell you what a shell really needs, and we'll tell you if it isn't worth it. After that it's the full workshop: restoration and custom builds, panel and paint, rust and fabrication, mechanical, auto electrical, trim, Cerakote and certification.

Getting the car to us from Feilding

Easy if it goes. If it's been in a shed since the eighties, transport from Feilding is a short run and we'll help you organise it.

We're not a mobile operation — the spray booth, the fabrication gear and the trim shop are all at Kuku, and that's where the work happens. What we will do is help you sort transport in both directions if the car isn't going to drive itself here.

What we can do for Feilding cars

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Candy green 1983 VH Holden Commodore restored at the Kohl Customs workshop near Levin
Recent work

Green Genesis


A 1983 VH Holden Commodore taken through a full respray in candy green, retrimmed front to back in cream diamond stitch, with a custom boot build and the engine bay done to match.

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Something in the shed at Feilding?


Send through the car, a few photos and what you want done. We'll come back with an honest read on it — including whether it's worth the money.

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