Jason and his team took very good care of my chevelle. They installed the tkx 5 speed and vintage air. And my face was freezing cold on the way home from the shop with the ac working perfectly. Jason noticed some issues with my car and made the necessary repairs. They pay very close attention to Detail and take pride in the work the shop completes. read more

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I have been to several "shops" and have had some of the worst experiences. Jason and the whole Gearhead Garage team really took care of me. They are unbelievably knowledgeable and really take the time to ensure your project is done right, and how you envision it to be executed. Highly recommend taking your passion vehicle here. read more

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Swapped out 3 speed for Muncie M21 4 speedincluding fabric action of custom Hurst shifter linkage and croossmember read more

Gearhead Garage - Custom fabricated Hurst 4 speed shifter linkage installed as part of swap for old 3 speed - Auto Repair Near Me - Sacramento, California

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this place is awesome. i wasn't having a good time finding a mechanic to do an overhaul brake job on my 66 mustang, including a front brake conversion and a used rear axle swap. They even went so far as to strip and repaint the used axle. They used the parts I already bought too. They completed the work on time. Perfect experience for me, i'll take my car back for sure. The cars they have on site are freakin' amazing too, its like a mini car show there. read more

got me in quickly, did exactly what he said he was gonna to do and more and when I got there, explained everything to me thoroughly. I was very impressed with the service and the work great Shop. read more

This is an amazing place. Nice people very friendly. They do what they say. Excellent quality in every department.

Got me in an out for a clutch replacement on my 66 mustang same day on a Friday during hot August nights!!! Now that is some stellar service!! Thanks again guys for helping me out and getting me back on the road!!! read more

If you want a team of top notch professionals to do just about anything to your ride look no further. Jason and his crew fit my First Gen Bronco ( yes they allowed a truck in the door) in for some long overdue improvements to the steering, braking and even installed a brand new cage. What can I say, they exceeded my expectations. Looking forward to the next round of improvements! -Mike read more

Well, not a lot to say here. I have seen this place off the freeway for a while. I have a classic car. It needs a Radiator, which I have already purchased. I decided to see what they would charge to install it. I can install it myself but sometimes I don't have the time therefore I thought I'd check this place out as it is not too far from me. A place to call and nobody answered which is understandable they're all out there wrench it on cars. However I left a detailed voice message and my phone number and never received a phone call back. I was patient as I did not know if they were open on Saturday or Sunday and I didn't bother to look so I assumed I would just get a phone call on Monday or Tuesday still no phone call. it's now the weekend, so I'm probably just going to get my wrenches out and put it in myself depending on whether it rains or not today . read more

Jason and his team went above and beyond building my dream car. Took a poor investment on my part and transformed it into a modern sports car. Doesn't drive like a restoration. It drives, handles, sounds and smells like a brand new sports car. I couldn't imagine a better team or company to build my childhood dream car for the price they did! Their attention to detail blew me away. They found stuff 3 other mechanics didn't find. To all the haters out there questioning the amount of cars in the shop. Maybe you should understand how a business works. Not everyone can pay for their dreams right away. Not every company ships the correct parts on time. The fact that they have that much room and that many cars shows you what they are capable of. They can allow the customer to get their money together while not stopping work on others that can afford their build faster. This also keeps the employees working and not figuring out a way to pay their bills. I highly recommend this shop. Strongly suggest following Jason's vision of the build. His response time is incredible. I have nothing bad to say about this shop. They built me a daily driver for the Bay Area that meets everything I need to navigate these destroyed roads. Thank you so much for bringing this dream to reality. I can't thank you guys enough. read more

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I inherited my 1965 Corvette from my father and treat it like a member of my family. After having had several restoration folks work on it over the years, there is absolutely nobody other than Jason and his Gearhead Garage team that I trust to touch my car. Their knowledge, care and professionalism is unparalleled and they literally treat the car like it is their own in the manner of care shown to it. If I ever leave the Sacramento area, I will have no choice but to bring the car back whenever it is time to have restoration work done on it! read more

My 69 Camaro turned out how I wanted it but even better. Family, friends, and strangers were amazed and complimented on Jason and his crews work. Jason helped me out from the beginning to the end. He put his own input and listened to my requests. He worked around my budget and the outcome was unbelievable. Jason and his crew are professional and worked as a team and always kept me in the loop with their process. I'd highly recommend. Writing on behalf of my father read more

Gearhead and there team of professionals along with the owner are second to none in my book. they took my Chevelle from sitting in the garage collecting dust to a reliable daily driven pro street toy. The changes they made were calculated and always the right path to obtaining all my desires in making it one of the ultimate highly desired street toys in Sacramento. There foresight and experience along with the owners sound advice helped me obtain my goals in the shortest amount of time possible. I am ever so grateful for the advice my friend gave me telling me to take it there. I can not say enough about there reasonable approach and competitive prices for the work they did for me . I highly recommend you utilize there services if you have a hot rod thats incomplete or need some things done on it ! ! ! There easy to find and easy to talk to. Tom Annigoni read more

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I recently bought a 68 Mustang GT from out of state. My mistake was not doing an onsite review of the car before purchase. When I received the car there were a number of unexpected leaks. I took the 68 to my normal mechanic, who has worked on my cars for almost 20 years. My old mechanic was great with newer cars but seemed lost when it came to a car without a computer and OBD monitor. I decided to locate a local team with experience on older cars. After a lot of research I chose GearHead who only works on cars of the pre-smog era. When I first drove into the Gearhead parking lot it felt like I was at a car show. Chevy, Ford and Dodge were all proudly represented. There were so many to look at that I had to snap some pics to show friends. Gearhead took care of all the leaks very quickly and I learned the out-of-state builder should have never attempted an engine build since the out-of-state-builder messed up things that were from engine-building 101 ;-) With my first experience with Gearhead ending so well I decided to use them for a cooling system upgrade. Jason provided very good straight-talk advice so I dumped my existing aluminum radiator for a larger one with electric fans. Jason also recommended a cooler thermostat from stock 195 degree since I live in CA. I am now running a 160 degree thermostat on my 390 FE engine and my car is staying cool even in the hot summer weather. Come early next year I am doing aluminum heads, full length headers, EFI and coil over front suspension upgrades. I will be working with Jason on these as well. The coil over suspension upgrade will have the added benefit of giving me ease of access to the spark plugs. if you have ever owned a big block Mustang you know exactly what I mean. While I will admit Gearhead can be a little difficult to contact, at times, it is a small price to pay to work with a team of classic car artists. Best contact I have found is to text/email Jason directly at carsbyjason@msn.com. I am definitely not an easy man to please but I can honestly say I have been very pleased with the relationship I am developing with Jason and the Gearhead team. read more

The shop does poor quality of work. Watch what they are doing as they do not listen to the customers and will do things differently then instructed. To be honest you are better off if you go to a different shop. Gearheads has way to many cars in the shop and too few mechanics to do the work. This causes them to neglect your car for months even years as they did with mine. And when they do work on your car the work is poor. In fact I am still in the process of correcting their poor work as they broke things and in many cases they did not fix what they agreed to. Pretty sad when you have to fix what they said they fixed but they did not. I strongly suggest picking a different shop. read more

Gearhead Garage - Have to say I have already started to fix the mistakes and poor quality work done at Gearhead Garage. - Auto Repair Near Me - Sacramento, California

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Went to Gearhead for some minor tweaks to my 69 Camaro. Needless to say a year later and many more mods to the car and I have the car of my dreams. I have to say it is my personal best due to the collaboration with Jason the owner. The car has won best in show and other awards. The car will also be featured in Chevy Hi Performance magazine. This was not my intent in doing this build. I just wanted a good car to enjoy on a regular basis. I did not want a show car. My point is Gearhead just does that nice of a job. They will do whatever level your budget will allow. These guys know muscle cars inside and out. They helped me make good choices and not waste money. read more

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stay away from this garage-- the owner has no customer service skills !--- talked to him on 2 occasions about bringing my classic in, both times he said he would call me back, never did--went to another shop / -hope they go out of buisiness--john read more

I have been taking BAE BEE (my Chevelle) to Gearhead from the very inception of Gearhead Garage several years ago. Back in the old days they weren't perfect, but they always took the car back and made every effort to get it right. Over the years, I witness them establishing themselves in the "performance car world," becoming TV stars on the Speed Channel, and more importantly, growing into a formidable restoration and car performance center who are experts in everything they do. Even the things they send out of their shop, are sent to other extremely competent gear heads. I recently I recently "took the plunge" and had a total rebuild of my Chevelle's 454 and we threw-in few upgrade to it as well. All I can say it is a whole different engine. Runs much smoother and cooler and the power is rather impressive. I have to say that damn thing "run like a Swiss Watch." Also, I did the Vintage Air conversion and installed these very trippy LED headlights. Rest assured, when you get your car back from these guys whatever you had them do is "Dialed-in"!!! One must note, with older cars there are many concurrent things that need work, due to economics, you may say I don't need to fixed that right now or I know someone else who can do that a whole lot cheaper!!! Usually whenever I did that, I got a funky repair job by someone who could "do the talk, but couldn't do the walk." So that "funky" repair job or existing condition would eventually bug me enough to where, on several occasions, I went running back to Jason and wound up having to say, "Ok, this has bugged me long enough or this other shop "F.... it up, could you guys please Fix It!!!!" read more

This is the only place that I will ever take my Chevelle, and I recommend all my friends and family to Gearhead Garage whenever they are looking to customize their classic cars! Great job guys! Sarah http://www.onlinecardonation.org/ read more

Saw their website and it was posted that a complete restoration may take as long as a year. Took my car in Sept 2012. Sept 2015 got my car back at cost of $63k. Car still needed work as paint job has flaws, hood not aligned properly, front suspension flawed, as they were still waiting on part for suspension. Sept 2016 I called Jason to remind him of needed follow-up work. Jason said "give me a couple of weeks to set things up and I'll call you". It is now end of January 2017, and I'm still waiting for Jason's call back. Seems to me that Gearhead is more interested in generating new business than taking care of customers they have. I would not recommend Gearhead at this time... read more

Not a place I would recommend. I took my Challenger in to have the transmission replaced and found out when I got home that some of the steering linkage was not fastened properly. They did some engine work as well and needed to take out the oil pan. This procedure requires removing the center link of the steering linkage. This lack of attention to detail could have cost me my life had I not noticed this. I could have lost control of my car had the linkage come apart while driving it. read more

As a national Organization that refurbishes and maintains donated classic, muscle and donated collector cars to benefit our programs and individuals in need as well as others such as the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Student Reach and others we are constantly impressed on the quality, care, professionalism and enthusiasm displayed by every staff member. Their ability to turn other car builders mistakes into gold is phenomenal. You can be confident that your partnering with the most competent car builders ever. We have been bringing muscle cars, classic cars to them for several years now, even transporting vehicles from the east coast to their shop. We wouldn't use anyone else. Givingcenter.org Collectibleswithcauses.org read more

I was going to just move on from me and Gearhead's horrible business relationship but I see that they have done the same thing they did to me, to others. Faulty work, refusal or unable to fix after multiple efforts to get them to do so. Getting the run around. I spent over 20k with them and they still gave me the run around and never fixed things related to the jobs I paid them for as well as them breaking things (mainly electrical related) that were not related to the jobs I paid them for. Out of frustration I just ended the relationship with them even though there were outstanding issues. Frankly I probably should have sued them but I gave them a pass. I've spent thousands since our relationship has ended just to get my car sound. The other shops have been able to diagnose and fix the issues without a problem. Terrible craftsmanship and customer service. And then they tell me that their work isn't warrantied and that any fixes they do to their own work is a favor to me. I wish em the best but they did me wrong and they need to clean up the way they do business. Sounds like multiple people have to take their cars back. I had a engine and transmission put in amongst other things... They didn't even put 5 miles of testing on them and called me to pick it up. The car ran bogged down, was smoking and took a lot to get started, transition leaked... AKA wasn't tested and adjusted. This was one of many issues. read more

If you ever want hot rod work done you better go here. I at the start of my 69 Camaro it was 10 years ago now done but had to take it to Gearheads to fix it right due to another company here do so bad of work. Gearheads will give an estimate and time frame and they keep to it if you do not take your car here your crazy and get screwed like I was. read more

I have owned my 69 Camaro since 2005 and have had 2 engines and replace transmission at other shops and the car never performed as I thought it should. I talked to Gearhead Garage at the Goodguys car show and they suggested a 383 Blueprint and convert from automatic to a Tremec 5 speed. I had never been happy with the performance and decided to trust the suggestion they gave. Jason the owner was easy to work with . I was impressed with the engine and tranny swap looks great. I was informed I needed to have vehicle rewired and I agreed. I went there and Jason took me for a test drive and man I was impressed my Camaro never performed at this level . They fixed several things other shops did that were not correct, my car is now everything I wanted and never got from other shops. I highly recommend you call and talk to Jason before trusting your classic car elsewhere. I want to thank Mert for the great job he did on engine and tranny conversion and Johnny on the clean rewire job. I will never trust another shop with my car again. Thanks Gearhead read more