Vintage Mechanical Works in
Sterling (IL)

November 2023: This guy has had my Dads car for five years! My mother wanted to have the restoration done for his 70th birthday obviously that didn’t happen! Unfortunately my mother ended up passing the following year from an rare disease. Almost to the month a year after Ben picked it up. We gave him the go ahead to keep working on it in July of 2020 and here we are in October of 23 and it still just a painted shell. isn’t even a rolling chassis. No engine mounted, nothing! It probably wouldn’t be so bad if he was making progress but nothing new is done when we go check on it! My mom and dad pretty much financed his business through Covid and every other excuse he could come up with. We’re on the 3rd time he’s told us “It should be ready by driving season!” My dad will be 74 in February and it would be nice to have his car back and finished!! Pics are from when it was picked up in Nov of 2018 and about as far as Ben has gotten in 5 years!! Pure disheartening Disappointment!! P.s. I was even blocked from his Facebook account for questioning his performance! Truth hurts I guess… Update as of November 25th 2024. We’re now 6 years in and still no finished product. Rolling chassis but still no engine in car and upholstery is suppose to be done but not in car yet. Zero priority on this job! Ben told us that it may be running by Christmas. We would like to see it done by the end of January 2025 so we can have it back for Dads 75th in February. Fingers crossed but we still have no confidence that it will be.

Some Pretty sweet rides they do here,… My experience: owner came out and looked at my projects and gave me some realistic ideas and honest feedback. If you are in the position now, this is your auto restore shop for sure. Talked to a former customer at a car show: he was very happy with his experience as well and had a sweet truck

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