ShopSabre CNC

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Elko, MN

From aerospace to automotive, ShopSabre CNC machines provide percision, quality and reliability in every application. Affordable tables include routers, plasmas and laser CNC machines.

Street Rod Garage

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Grant, AL

Street Rod Garage is a full service street rod & hot rod shop specializing in every aspect of street rod building from custom design to Chassis to Complete Turn Key Cars and everything in between.

GodSpeed Rides

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Brownsberg, IN

Builder Thom Ophof, a former mechanical engineer, decided that metal shaping hot rods, custom cars and bikes was way better than office work! 9 yrs later with TIG in hand, Tom does it all, chassis fab, custom headers, chopped tops, and lead work. His shop specializes in individual components all the way to custom turn key vehicles.

Ricks' Stainless Tanks

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El Paso, TX

Rick himself few in from the West Texas town of El Paso to personally help fabricate the installation of one of his 22 gallon tri-five gas tanks for our Handyman.

Star Collision

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Grand Rapids, MI

Bill Stevens is a custom car builder with CarStar Auto Body and Collision Center of Grand Rapids. An old friend of Tim Strange, Bill specializes in custom hot rod applications and is a wiz with a TIG!

Danchuk Manufacturing

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Specialist Mike Morgan brought his custom car building skills to the '55 by installing Danchuk supplied trip and window parts.

Big Body Custom Interiors

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Lebanon, TN

Chris "Big Body" Tisdale along with Chad Oliver assisted Hix Design in creating the one-of-a-kind custom interior for Chad's '55 Handyman.

Hix Design

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Norman, OK

Kyle Hix and Ross Johns are skilled at creating award winning interiors for clients worldwide. They donated an amazing interior for Chad taking into consideration his disability along the way.

Ron Francis Wiring

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Scott and his son Kyle Bowers are carrying on the rich tradition Ron Francis started by offfering up harnesses, fan controls, lighting, switches, and much more. We couldn't have wired the '55 without their help!

Advantage Car Audio

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Norman, OK

Chris Kill volunteered his high end audio talents working with the Hix crew in creating a unique sound system featuring JL Audio equipment for the '55.

Pro Paint Collision & Customs

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Sulphur, LA

Anthony Thibodeaux is a paint and body expert from Louisiana who lended his skills during the toughest week of the build, spraying & sanding Chad's '55.

Rest O Mod - Classic Auto Air

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Tampa, FL

Rest O Mod is a division of Classic Auto Air, who not only provided an entire serpentine belt system, air conditioning unit, but sent technician Dwight Dow here to help install everything.

Pratt & Miller Car Collector Restorations

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New Hudson, MI

Pratt & Miller sent in a qualified team of car builders led by Mike Atkins, who participated in multiple stages of the build - providing expert mechanical, fabrication and body skills.

Sisco's Fabrication

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Visalia, CA

Brandon Sisco is an award-winning custom car builder who flew in from California to lend his skills to Chad's '55.

BH Custom Designs

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Ironton, OH

Brett Howell specializes in pro touring cars, and drove in from the river valley after contacting the show wanting to volunteer. Brett was a sanding and body working machine!

Tech AFX, Inc.

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Bloomfield, MI

Tech AFX provides engineering solutions to high end custom vehicles. And sales and marketing representative Will Handzel flew to the Tech Center to make sure we had a fuel delivery system to our LS3.

Sidewinder Conversions & Mobility

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Chilliwack, BC Canada

In conjunction with Sure Grip hand controls, Owner Graham Edney made sure Chad had the top of the line hand accellerator & brake controls for his '55.

Blair Gehman Chassis Works

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Blair lent his fabrication expertise by building a custom fuel filler, among many other duties during his week here. His chassis skills involve protyping race & drag cars, including the world's first two 4WD diesel drag trucks to run in the 8's.

Anderson Classics & Kustoms

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Claremore, OK

Jason Anderson specializes in all custom painting applications from high end street rods, to motorcycles and everything in between.

Danny Taylor Automotive Art & Design

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Shepperdsville, KY

Danny Taylor is a DuPont paint representative who has been painting and pinstriping custom cars, trucks and bikes for decades. His amazing work contributed to a unique beltline graphic on Chad's '55.

Spanky's Hot Rods & Customs

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Heber Springs, AR

Spanky's is a full hot rod and custom shop down in Arkansas. They sent Chris Skaggs who lent his paint and body skills.

Extreme Restorations by Jake

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Waterville, OH

Jake Pierson volunteered his body work and painting skills to the '55, and was a non-stop dynamo during the hardest week of the build.

Conestogo Motors

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Claremore, OK

Owner & lead mechanic, Steve Mank has over 30 years experience building classic street machines, muscle cars, and hot rods. He helped create legendary movie cars like the modern Batmobile, the General Lee, The Flintstones, the mobile Kit from Knight Rider and more. Now his full fabrication and metal shop outside Tulsa, OK, caters to car enthusiasts who want their dream car built from scratch, or those who want Steve to finish their current project.

BBT Fabrication

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Champaign, IL

Owner Troy Gudgel opened this custom steet rod custom fab shop 7 years ago, as a third generation gearhead in his family. BBT specializes in building one-off custom parts, to full blown modern turnkey street rods.

Stripmasters of Nashville

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Nashville, TN

Stripmasters of Nashville graciously donated about 14 hours of media blasting to clear our '55 Handyman of paint, grime, and lead before the building process began.

Advanced Plating

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Nashville, TN

Advanced Plating has earned the title "World's Best Chrome Plating service" by doing extreme quality re-plating work. Owner Steve Tracy answered the call providing his premium signature bling to our '55 Handyman's bumpers, grill, head lamps, tail lamps and trim.

Rushforth Performance Design

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Tacoma, WA

Artist Jason Rushforth creates masterpieces on canvas so you can create them in your shop. He provided artist rendering of Chad's '55 Chevy 210 Handyman Wagon.

Advanced Auto Glass

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Nashville, TN

Finding and installing auto glass is a job best left to a specialist. Auto glass expert Mike Dante is the guy PowerBlock shows turn to when they need to replace glass in a classic vehicle. Mike's specialty is supplying and installing hard to find auto glass.

Autobody Color & Supply

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Nashville, TN

AutoBody Color & Supply's Brian Smith and team have provided the PowerBlock quality paint mixing systems, paints and body painting supplies for years. They are a PPG Platinum distributor & Training Center for certification with 7 locations.

Pilot Transport

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Brighton, MI

Official transport company for Search & Restore, Pilot Transport is North America's largest 'company driver' specialty vehicle logistics provider. They deliver over 35,000 vehicles each year to and from plants, ports, rail yards, auto shows, research & development centers, special events and dealerships.

The Industrial Depot

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Gainesville, GA

Industrial Depot has supplied PowerBlock shows industrial fasteners, hardware & shop supplies for years, so it's no surprise they sent in volunteers for Search & Restore.