Premier Muscle Car Restoration Services
From Rust to Showroom-Ready, We’re Passionate About Your Classic
Complete Car Restorations Since 1988:
Since 1988, Muscle Car Restorations has been setting the standard for complete, ground-up classic and muscle car restorations, delivering hundreds of stunning transformations and earning a reputation for excellence along the way. With decades of experience, we’ve mastered every aspect of the restoration process, becoming experts and perfectionists in our craft.
At MCR, full restorations are our core focus, with specialized expertise in Ford, GM, and Mopar Restorations. Unlike many shops, we handle every stage of the process in-house from design to metal repair and replacement, bodywork and paint, assembly, final evaluation and beyond ensuring precision, quality, and accuracy at every turn. Our dedicated specialists in each department bring focused expertise to their craft, guaranteeing the highest level of service at every step. And for your peace of mind, all of our restorations come backed by a full written warranty.
Trust your dream with the restoration experts who’ve been delivering unmatched quality for over three decades.
Bring Your Legend Back to Life
- Complete high-end restoration to your specifications
- Weekly Photo & Progress Updates
- Parts Sourcing
- Thorough Tuning & Testing
Your classic car isn’t just a vehicle—it’s a part of your life's vision, the fulfillment of a dream, and something you've thought about for some time. At Muscle Car Restorations, we specialize in helping you fulfill that vision by combining meticulous attention to detail with a passion for perfection. From frame-off restorations to custom upgrades, we handle every aspect of your build to ensure your dream car looks, runs, and feels exactly how you want it.
No matter the vision, we’ve got you covered because building whatever you can imagine is what we do best.
Collector Car Restoration Services
- Multiple Car Restorations & Management
- Vehicle Acquisition Assistance
- Secure Storage Solutions
- Comprehensive Maintenance Options
If you have or are looking to add to your collection, our collector car services provide full-scale restoration and maintenance for each vehicle. We know how much you care about your collection, and we offer expert care to ensure every car receives the attention it deserves. From collector car inspection and routine maintenance to full restorations, we take care of it all.
Our Expertise in Classic Muscle Cars:
- Our specialty is Muscle Cars from the ’60s and ’70s, as well as rare vintage classics. Have a wild resto-mod project or idea? We do that, too!
- Our vast experience and knowledge gathered by doing 100’s of restorations assure you that we can source or restore any part of your classic vehicle to look like it just rolled off the assembly line. Or build whatever you need from scratch.
- MCR has been featured in publications such as Hot Rod Magazine, Car Craft, and Mopar Muscle and more. We also have strong relationships with major companies like Holley, PPG, MSD, Tremec, Detroit Speed, Roadster Shop, and Auto Metal Direct. There’s nothing we can’t do.
EXPLORE OUR PAST WORK
Every project is unique, and the timeline typically changes based on how complex your project is. But to give you a better idea, we’ll provide a timeline and estimate after the initial consultation. (A full restoration project typically takes, at a minimum, 1500 to 3000 hours to complete. Experience tells us your car will reveal what it needs as the restoration process unfolds. There is no such thing as an average cost. To you, there’s nothing average about your vehicle!
Yes, all of our restorations come backed by a full written warranty.
Meet Dante Dellacroce – our Sales & Technical Advisor who lives and breathes restorations. With deep technical expertise and an “if you can dream it, we can build it” mindset, Dante is your first call to turn your vision into award-winning reality.
Let's Discuss Your Restoration
Block out some time using the form below to discuss your project with Dante Dellacroce, our Sales & Technical Advisor.
Ready to bring your dream car back to life?
Beautiful!! Can't recommend MCR enough.
The MCR Team did an absolutely terrific job restoring my 1976 280Z. Throughout the process they provided hundreds of pictures which clearly documented the restoration process. Every Friday the pictures would arrive....it was always so exciting to open up the folder and see my car come to life. I have brought the car to a few local car shows. I always get tremendous compliments on the engine restoration, the interior, as well as the finish. Beautiful!! Can't recommend MCR enough.
John and his team of craftspeople were a pleasure to work with through out the process. They always went the extra mile to do the job right and it shows in the result.
When the opportunity presented itself to buy the car of my dreams back in '98, I jumped at the chance. I right away realized that the car needed some serious attention. After discussing my project with a couple of restoration shop owners in my area and getting "turned down" because they felt the car wasn't worth it, I felt the need to locate someone that had a passion for old Mopars and would be up to the challenge.
About 5 years ago, I saw a Year One ad in Mopar Muscle that spoke of John and his passion and dedication to the restoration and preservation of classic cars. After doing a bit more research, I knew without a doubt that Musclecar Restorations would be up to the task. John and his team of craftspeople were a pleasure to work with through out the process. They always went the extra mile to do the job right and it shows in the result. The extent of work required to bring the car back was a bit more than I anticipated, but, John and his team were ALWAYS willing to work with me to do what it took to make it happen. To you and your staff, thank you for making my dream come true!
Thank you for the gift of my dream that you and MCR gave to me.
Many people come into our lives and just as quickly move along and are never heard from again. I remember well my first meeting with John at his shop, which at that time only consisted of two buildings. John was very courteous, kind and knowledgeable in the areas of automotive restoration. After our first meeting I was sold that this was the person who could make my dream a reality.
For anyone reading this and not knowing me and my background would not fully understand or comprehend how big a dream this was for me. I am a disabled veteran, who is a ventilator dependent quadriplegic with no feeling or movement from my chin and on down. So realizing this, people ask why build a vehicle that I will never be able to operate? My answer: "Many things have been taken away from me, but not my childhood dream of owning an awesome car."
Most people would write about his quality of work, but I wish to tell about his personality and the people that he surrounds himself with. Besides, with the many trophies, awards, magazine articles, and even television appearances they speak for his work. I have learned through the many years of working with John, that you can trust his work, decisions, and his knowledgeable employees. I feel that I have a great friend in John that has evolved over the years. He has always made himself available for any question that I have had through this great process.
Thank you for the gift of my dream that you and MCR gave to me. Your hard work and friendship brightens my days, and it continues to brighten my heart and soul. Your thoughtfulness means so much to me.
The entire staff was easy to work with and accommodated any request for last minute changes or rework.
I purchased a 1970 AAR Cuda with the original numbers matching drive train, but it needed a restoration. I wanted the restoration done by a shop that knew Mopars and had a good reputation, so I selected MCR. My initial meeting with the MCR staff was very collaborative. They wanted to understand what my intentions were with the car after it was completed. I said I was interested in driving the car in autocross events, but with the original suspension geometry and drivetrain. They made numerous constructive suggestions and we agreed on a restoration plan. Even though I live in the northwest, I was very involved during the restoration due in large part to weekly progress pictures posted my MCR and their responsiveness to my many emails. During the restoration, MCR impressed me with their extensive fabrication skills (custom sway bars, custom engine brace, starter heat shield, unibody structural reinforcements, reinforced suspension components) and their high tech diagnostic equipment which allowed them to identify and resolve car operational issues. I got along extremely well with John Balow and Ben Peotter (one of Ben’s hobbies is driving race cars) and since the restoration Ben described additional high tech diagnostic equipment owned by MCR and recommended that I purchase some to help me resolve a vibration issue. The entire staff was easy to work with and accommodated any request for last minute changes or rework. MCR agreed to set up a thorough road test at Road America after the restoration was completed. It was extensively documented with pictures in a very comprehensive Hot Rod Network article (https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1970-plymouth-barracuda-aar-cuda-road-america-test/). We discovered and MCR subsequently fixed numerous issues with the car. Ultimately, I got exactly the car I wanted!
Such quality is not cheap, nor is it quick to achieve, but boy is it worth it.
When selecting a restoration shop, you likely have a list of criteria that the shop must meet. Quality. Price. Time for completion. If quality is your number one criterion, look no further than Muscle Car Restorations (MCR).
The quality they put into their restorations cannot be overstated. Such quality is not cheap, nor is it quick to achieve, but boy is it worth it. The attention to detail that MCR puts into their work is second to none. MCR is also very transparent throughout the entire process. With the weekly communication they provide and the straight talk about what your restoration requires, you will never be left wondering what is happening with your restoration.
