Alloway's Hot Rod Shop (Bobby Alloway)
Louisville, TN · United States
1980s–present
Deep-black, big-'n'-little billet-wheel street rods
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Hot Rods · Kustoms · Lowriders
The hands that reshaped Detroit iron.
Not the carrozzerie and not the restomod shops — this is the American custom tradition: the kustomizers who chopped Mercs, the hot-rod builders who made the Deuce an art form, and the show-rod artists who turned fiberglass into fantasy. From Barris and Winfield to Foose and Rad Rides by Troy — kept as its own registry.
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Identity, provenance and cultural record only — a builder entry never sets a value. The value of record for any specific custom lives on its own catalog page through the valuation gateway. This registry documents who built it and how, the way the culture remembers it.
41 builders
Hot rods · 21
Active
Andy Brizio (Champion Speed Shop)
San Francisco · United States
1960s–
T-bucket commercial-kit pioneer
Bodie Stroud Industries
Sun Valley, CA · United States
present
Restomod muscle cars & custom builds
Official site ↗Boyd Coddington
United States
1978–2008
Father of the modern billet street-rod era
Hallmark Billet wheels & smooth street rods
Brookville Roadster
United States
present
Reproduction steel 1932 Ford bodies
Hallmark New-steel Deuce bodies
Dearborn Deuce
United States
present
Reproduction steel 1932 Ford roadster bodies (folding top)
Foose Design (Chip Foose)
Huntington Beach, CA · United States
1998–present
Altered-proportion one-off 'art' cars
Hallmark The Foose proportion & wheel design
Official site ↗Hollywood Hot Rods (Troy Ladd)
Burbank, CA · United States
2001–present
AMBR-winning traditional & modern hot rods
Official site ↗Jesse James (Austin Speed Shop)
United States
1990s–present
Custom vehicle & hot-rod builder
Lil' John Buttera
United States
1970s–2000s
Billet-aluminum street-rod pioneer
Moal Coachbuilders (Steve Moal)
Oakland, CA · United States
present
European-technique coachbuilt rolling art
Hallmark Hand-formed alloy bodies
Norm Grabowski
United States
1950s–
T-bucket pioneer — the 'Kookie Kar'
Pete & Jake's
United States
1974–present
Street-rod-renaissance builder & parts (Chapouris/Jacobs)
Pinkee's Rod Shop
Windsor, CO · United States
present
High-end street rods & pro-touring builds
Official site ↗Posies (Ken Fenical)
United States
present
Custom street rods + Super Slide springs
Rad Rides by Troy (Troy Trepanier)
Manteno, IL · United States
1990s–present
AMBR-winning hyper-engineered show rods
Ringbrothers
Spring Green, WI · United States
1990s–present
Carbon-bodied restomod muscle & billet hardware
Hallmark SEMA hero restomods
Official site ↗Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop
Greenfield Center, NY · United States
present
Traditional salt-flat-aesthetic 1932 Fords
Roy Brizio Street Rods
South San Francisco · United States
1976–present
Elite traditional 1932–34 Ford street rods
SO-CAL Speed Shop (Alex Xydias)
United States
1946–present
Foundational hot-rod / speed shop; belly-tank lakester
The Roadster Shop
Mundelein, IL · United States
1980s–present
Pro-touring chassis & turnkey hot rods
Official site ↗Kustoms · 17
Alexander Brothers (Mike & Larry)
Detroit · United States
1950s–1970s
Detroit customs; the Dodge Deora
Ayala Brothers (Gil & Al)
East Los Angeles · United States
1940s–1950s
East LA Mexican-American kustom lineage
Hallmark Gil's Auto Body Works
Bill Cushenbery
Monterey, CA · United States
1950s–1970s
El Matador & Silhouette show customs
Bill Hines
United States
1940s–2010s
Leadworker; radical chops; hydraulic-lift pioneer
Dean Jeffries
United States
1950s–2013
Customs & film cars (Black Beauty, Monkeemobile)
Dick Bertolucci
United States
1940s–
Sacramento kustom builder & painter
Gene Winfield
Mojave, CA · United States
1950s–present
Chopped Mercurys; custom-blend fade paint; film cars
Hallmark Winfield-blend fade paint
George Barris (Barris Kustoms)
Los Angeles · United States
1940s–2015
Hirohata Merc; the 1966 Batmobile
Hallmark Chopped Mercs & Hollywood cars
Harry Westergard
United States
1930s–1950s
Pre-Barris Sacramento kustomizer
Jimmy Summers
United States
1930s–1950s
Early LA custom pioneer (chops, shaved trim)
Joe Bailon
Hayward, CA · United States
1940s–2010s
Originated Candy Apple Red
Junior Conway (House of Color)
Bell Gardens, CA · United States
1950s–present
Barris protégé; kustom paint & body
Larry Watson
United States
1950s–
Scallops & panel-paint pioneer
Rick Dore Kustoms
United States
1990s–present
Art Deco-inspired coachbuilt customs
Official site ↗Sam Barris
United States
1940s–1960s
Barris Kustoms co-founder; chop-technique pioneer
Squeeg's Kustoms (Doug Jerger)
Chandler, AZ · United States
present
Elite modern customs; 2026 AMBR winner
Valley Custom Shop (Emory & Jensen)
Burbank, CA · United States
1948–1962
Restrained customs & sectioning; the So-Cal Special
Show rods · 3
Blackie Gejeian
Fresno, CA · United States
1950s–
Fresno show-car builder (Shish-Kebab Special)
Darryl Starbird (Star Kustom Shop)
Wichita, KS · United States
1950s–present
Bubble-top show-car customs
Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth
United States
1950s–2001
Beatnik Bandit, Outlaw fiberglass show rods; Rat Fink
Hallmark Wild one-off fiberglass bubbletops
Lowriders The lowrider tradition — Gypsy Rose, the East LA car-club builders, the great hydraulics and muralist houses — is a documented coverage gap in our archive, not an omission. It's queued for a dedicated research pass and will be added honestly rather than guessed.
For the classic body houses see the Coachwork Directory; for the movements that drive these cars' demand, the Culture Lens.