Before 1972, Every Make Welcome

True Vintage

Machines You Can Understand — If You Learned How

A vehicle built before 1972 is gloriously, completely mechanical. Fuel is mixed by a carburetor obeying physics, spark is timed by points and a distributor, and every system can be diagnosed with eyes, ears, a test light, and a vacuum gauge. There's no computer to interrogate — and that's exactly why most modern shops won't touch these cars: the skills aren't taught anymore, and flat-rate billing punishes the patience they require.

We work the old way because the specialty demands it. Dwell meters, timing lights, compression and leak-down tests, float levels set by spec sheet — the disciplines these machines were designed around. And because we're mobile, your vintage iron never has to risk a flatbed ride to get that care. Most of these cars live in barns and back garages from Sequim to Forks anyway; we just meet them there.

All makes means all makes

• American iron — pickups and sedans from Ford, Chevy, Dodge; the farm trucks still earning their keep and the cruisers that come out for sunny Saturdays
• The early imports — air-cooled VWs, Amazons and 1800s, British roadsters with their charming electrics, first-wave Japanese arrivals
• Orphans and oddballs — Studebakers, Ramblers, IH pickups — if parts exist or can be rebuilt, it can run

The Work Vintage Machines Need

• Tune-ups as originally specified: points, condenser, cap, rotor, plugs, dwell and timing — the ritual, done right, transforms these engines
• Carburetor service: rebuilds, float and mixture adjustment, choke tuning for damp Peninsula mornings — single barrels to period multi-carb setups
• Fuel system revival: tanks, lines, and pumps on cars that sat — old fuel is the #1 killer of stored vintage vehicles
• Brake systems: drum service, wheel and master cylinders, hard and soft lines — stopping is non-negotiable, even at parade speed
• Charging & electrics: generators, voltage regulators, 6-volt systems, and the patient hunt through cloth-wrapped harnesses
• Cooling: radiators, water pumps, thermostats on engines that predate overflow bottles
• Recommissioning: the full wake-up protocol for "ran when parked" — fluids, fuel, brakes, seals, and a careful first start instead of a hopeful one

Honest About Limits, Transparent About Cost

A driveway handles most vintage work beautifully — but not machine-shop jobs, full restorations, or structural rust surgery, and we'll tell you plainly when your car needs one of those and help you plan it. Everything we do bills at the published rates: $125 diagnostics + $1.50/mile, $125–135/hr labor, estimates approved first, owner-supplied and NOS parts welcome. Vintage owners have usually spent years gathering parts; we're happy to be the hands that fit them.