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Car restoration in Levin


We're Levin's local restoration and custom build shop — literally. Our workshop is at Kuku on State Highway 1, about ten minutes south of town, and we've been there since 2006.

A workshop on your doorstep

For Levin owners this is about as convenient as a proper restoration shop gets. You can drop the car in, come and look at it while it's apart, and have the conversation about what it actually needs standing next to it rather than over the phone. That matters more than people expect on restoration work, where the scope tends to reveal itself as panels come off.

We do the full range here — frame-up restorations and turn-key custom builds, panel and paint, rust cut out and replaced, sheet-metal and chassis fabrication, full mechanical, auto electrical, custom upholstery, Cerakote and certification. Because it's all under the one roof, a Levin car doesn't get shuttled between a panel shop, a trimmer and an auto sparky with three sets of opinions attached to it.

Getting the car to us from Levin

Most Levin cars just drive down, or come the ten minutes on a trailer. If yours has been sitting in a shed for a decade and isn't going anywhere under its own steam, that's a short and cheap tow — tell us where it is and we'll sort 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 Levin 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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Levin car worth doing?


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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