About Us
Who We Are
At our core are our people. We’re a diverse and creative bunch, with skills, knowledge and experience on a huge scale. If you’re after skin in the game, we’ve got it by the boot load.
Our restorations and services aren’t clinical. We do our research, plenty of homework, and take the best practice approach considered alongside and guided by the vision and desires of our customer. Each and every restoration is different to the next. We are flexible, creative, and we are problem solvers. We can start right from the beginning, with in house CAD design and clay modelling, or you can involve us relatively ‘late’, for paint or the astute finishing touches. Our experience is one of our strengths, but our ability to assess each vehicle as it stands before us is just as valuable. On larger projects, we strive to adopt the vision of the original designer. Sometimes that means recreating, sometimes it means stepping it up a notch or two.
Your Cars
The beauty and appeal of classic, historic, custom, and modified cars – it’s a special thing. Unique feelings are evoked. They sometimes occur when the engine leaps to life, sometimes occur when you’re flying along at more clicks than you probably should be.
Whatever your vehicle means to you, we take the time to understand, so that long after the keys are back in your hands, those feelings and the satisfaction of a job exceptionally well done remains.
Our work was panel, paint and mechanical restoration, and a whole host of race vehicle preparation, hot rods and street machine vehicles.
We entered Motorex with highly commendable entries
A change in business ownership and structure provided us with a re-calibration opportunity.
With 50% of the former ownership now solely at the helm, we shifted gears (proverbially), transitioning to focus more on restoring classic and historical vehicles, including world wide recognised race cars. Our customers were rewarding in their support of our shift.
We entered a Primrose yellow British vehicle into Australia’s most prominent concours event, and dropped our chins a little when we failed to get a mention in our category’s winners & commendation list. But a few minutes later, my oh my, they shot back up in awe and jubilation, when the Best In Show triumph was bestowed upon us. In fact, most of us had to hear it twice. BEST IN SHOW, Motorclassica 2019. FOLKS, we’re still riding that high. You can read more about this project here.
After years of struggle to find the right tradespeople for the nature of our business, we made the decision in our panel and paint divisions to partner with WD Autobody.
We decided to have another tilt at the re-branded Motorclassica, now Motors and Masterpieces. In fact, not one tilt, but two – entering a TR Ausca, and a BMW 3.0L CSL Batmobile. Would you believe it, the BMW CSL entry was crowned BEST IN SHOW, marking yet another outstanding and unbelievable triumph. 3 vehicles, 2 concours events, 2 Best of/in Show winners. Cloud 9 took on a new meaning for us here. If you’d like to learn more about either the BMW CSL click here or the Ausca, click here
We expanded the Creative Customs brand to include componentry, ‘Creative Custom Components’, a signpost to a future direction. Watch this space!
We commenced our prototype classic car EV conversion – a 1973 Volkswagen Kombi Ute. The journey has only just begun, and we’ve got plenty to share as we progress. Rest assured, this first is one of many to come.
The journey continues…..