Body work repairs, panel beating and custom made panels using old fashioned coach building techniques. Kustom Bitz works the metal, making panels from scratch and getting the body repaired ready to go to the paint shop. Much of our work is from building the chassis in the first place and then fitting the body to the chassis, fabricating the floor and making all the panels fit. All facets of working with metal are what we specialise in, from the structural frame to the panel fabrication.
I don't do paint, it is the metal work I do, although I have painted my own cars and continue to do so. There are many paint shops that have highly specialised painting facilities these days, doing mainly smash repair and panel replacement, of which best utilises their investment in those facilities. Full metal restoration work is difficult for some smash repair shops to take on, due to the way the industry opperates now. The work is time consuming in nature, the lengthy storage time for the job and specialised equipment required takes up a lot of space, and there are fewer poeple with the metal working skill set. Yet if a body is presented ready to paint then that is a more attractive proposition to utilise thier modern facilities, it can come in get painted and go out realtively quickly.
I am happy to do as little or as much as you want when it comes to the body work, it is just another aspect of what I can do on the car. All metal work shape is finished using the splines technique. Once the chassis is finished many customers decide to take the car off to their favorite body shop and that is fine by me too. Atleast when the body leaves our workshop you can see what you have, all in bare metal. No way we can hide poor metal workmanship under filler and paint, as we do not do paint.
When it comes to working with metal we are not a one trick pony
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