Classic Car Restoration in the Hill Country & San Antonio Area

A classic that's been sitting for years usually has more wrong with it than the paint. A rusted Mazda Miata that came through the shop tells that story clearly — the rocker panels and trunk floor had rust eating through the metal, with old patches of primer marking spots where someone had already tried to slow it down. Bringing a car like that back means dealing with the rust first, not painting over it and hoping it stays put.

The rusted sections get cut out down to solid metal, and new panel is shaped and welded in to replace what corroded away, which is different work than filling a dent — there's no metal left underneath to pull back into shape. Once the rust is gone and the panels line up again, the same Miata went through primer and came out the other side restored in white, with no trace of the rust or the patchwork that had been holding it together. That same process — cut out the bad metal, rebuild it, get the panels lined up, then paint — applies to any classic brought in for restoration, with over five years of that kind of bodywork behind it.

What's included

• Rust cut out down to solid metal, not filled over
• New metal shaped and welded in to replace what corroded away
• Panels worked back into place once old patch jobs are redone
• Full repaint once the metal underneath is solid
• Rusted classics brought back panel by panel, not just resprayed
• Over five years of bodywork behind every restoration

Restoration starts with finding every place rust has gotten into the metal, not just the spot that's visible, since rust spreads under paint long before it shows through. Anything rusted through gets cut out entirely rather than filled over, and new metal is shaped and welded in to replace it. Once the rust is gone, the panels get worked back into place and any old filler or patch work gets redone properly, so everything lines up the way it did when the car was new. From there it's the same sequence as any paint job — primer, color and clear coat — but with more time spent getting the metal right first, since a restoration only looks finished if what's underneath it is solid.