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🏁 Classic • Custom • Restoration • Performance
🏗️ Open now in Palmetto
📍 2116 17th St E, Palmetto, FL
👩‍🔧 Woman-Owned | Family-Run
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🏆 2021-2026 Bradenton’s Best

After 59 years together, these suspension parts have attachment issues. And apparently, we’re the breakup crew. 🔧This be...
10/21/2026

After 59 years together, these suspension parts have attachment issues. And apparently, we’re the breakup crew. 🔧

This beautiful 1967 Ford Fairlane convertible belongs to an owner who put a lot of work into building it—and has every reason to be proud. We’re honored he trusted Motorhead with a complete front suspension rebuild.

He knew it was time. The old parts? They’re requesting another few decades.

We’re going in with new MOOG components, followed by an alignment, to get this beauty tracking straight and ready for more top-down miles.

If you spot this Fairlane at a local car show, tell the owner you saw it on our page. It would tickle him pink—and when someone puts this much heart into a car, they deserve a little recognition.

Who’s got two thumbs and is getting an all-new QA1 Level 2 suspension upgrade? THIS GUY.” 👍👍This ’68 Camaro found out wh...
10/20/2026

Who’s got two thumbs and is getting an all-new QA1 Level 2 suspension upgrade? THIS GUY.” 👍👍

This ’68 Camaro found out what we ordered, grew arms, and hasn’t stopped bragging since.

Now it’s flexing in the shop like it’s paying its own invoice.

And the tires were putting under it? Calling them “meaty” is an understatement. We’re gonna need a butcher’s scale to balance these things. That rear end’s getting the whole brisket. 🥩

Consider this your warning if you live in his neighborhood: when this thing pulls in, you’re gonna wish it was just the neighbors shooting off fireworks.

New suspension. Massive rubber. Absolutely unbearable ego.

Follow along while Motorhead gives this loudmouth something to back up all that flexing.

10/19/2026

Happy Birthday to Francesca, the woman who hears “That’s a crazy idea” and apparently takes it as authorization.

Start a business? Let’s do it.
Take on a challenging build? Bring it in.
Get a bigger shop? We’ll figure it out.
Take a day off? Now you’re being ridiculous.

She’s never been afraid to take a chance, get her hands dirty, or put in the work to make something happen. Motorhead wouldn’t be what it is without her courage, determination, and occasional refusal to listen to reason.

Francesca, thanks for giving us something to be proud of and a few things to explain later. 🎂

Help us wish her a Happy Birthday in the comments!

FIELD TRIP DAY at Motorhead Kollege. 🎓😂We’re shutting the shop down at 1 PM today and taking the crew on a little educat...
10/15/2026

FIELD TRIP DAY at Motorhead Kollege. 🎓😂

We’re shutting the shop down at 1 PM today and taking the crew on a little educational field trip… or maybe it’s just something that sounded fun and we decided to call it educational.

Where are we going? We’re not telling.
But there may be an Easter egg hiding in the picture. 👀

We may go live from the field trip…
or we may get distracted, forget completely, and come back tomorrow acting like nothing happened.

Either way, class is officially dismissed at 1. 😂

Okay… apparently our apprentice is kind of a big deal. 😂There’s a reason we call Audrey “Hollywood” around the shop.If s...
10/12/2026

Okay… apparently our apprentice is kind of a big deal. 😂

There’s a reason we call Audrey “Hollywood” around the shop.

If she looks familiar, you may have seen her with Riley’s Rebuilds. Their Meta commercial featuring the Riley’s Rebuilds crew has racked up 156 MILLION views across platforms in 3 weeks.

Yeah, 156 MILLION and going up

Huge props to Audrey and the entire Riley’s Rebuilds team for what they’ve built and for putting young people — especially young women in automotive — in front of an audience that big.

We’re just lucky Hollywood spends some of her time at Motorhead turning wrenches with us.

And somehow, despite all that fame, we’ve discovered she can still be kept reasonably fueled with unlimited cans of Mountain Dew and a steady supply of terrible corny jokes. 😂

156 million views and she still has to put up with us.

We’re proud of you, Hollywood — and congratulations to the whole Riley’s Rebuilds crew. 👏

~your Motorhead family

Well… it happened.Flor got asked by the. Shake Station for a highly specialized repair job:Their gumball machine.That’s...
10/11/2026

Well… it happened.

Flor got asked by the. Shake Station for a highly specialized repair job:

Their gumball machine.

That’s right. Not a Camaro.
Not a carburetor.
Not an LS swap.
A 25-cent, sugar-dispensing mechanical crisis.

So naturally, we’re considering a new division:
Motorhead Gumball Repair.

We’re currently developing Stage 2 upgrades including a bigger globe, high-flow quarter slot, billet candy chute, and possibly an LS3 swap if Francesca leaves us unsupervised long enough.

At this point, if it has moving parts, makes noise or refuses to work properly…

bring it to Motorhead.

So what do you think?

Do we add GUMBALL REPAIR to the sign, or do we stop Flor before somebody drops off a claw machine?

10/10/2026

Sometimes “finished” isn’t quite finished.

Our 1968 442 is back from paint, and once we got it under the shop lights and really started looking it over, we found so many areas of poor quality that we talked it over with the owner and the car will need to be stripped to bare metal and painted again.

The painter came highly recommended to the owner, and this isn’t about pointing fingers — it’s about getting the car right.

The owner demands perfection-

Because a 442 this nice deserves the details to be right too.

How many issues did you spot before the end?

10/09/2026

And then there’s our 1968 Oldsmobile 442.

We’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing paint detective after finally getting the car back following approximately 14 months away.

The painter had come highly recommended to the owner by others, so he had high expectations for how the car would turn out. Unfortunately, once the car came back and we had the opportunity to finally inspect it, the quality just wasn’t where it needed to be.

Our customer wants perfection on this car, and after going through everything carefully, we made the difficult decision to reject the paint work.

At this point, the right way to move forward is to strip the car back down and have it repainted properly.

When you hire us to build your dream car, you’re not just hiring us to turn wrenches. You’re hiring us to help manage the project, take some of the burden off your shoulders, watch the details, and stand beside you when something doesn’t go the way it should.

We’ll be taking the 442 to another painter and starting the process of getting this beautiful Oldsmobile the finish it deserves.

More updates coming soon.

FIELD TRIP DAY AT MOTORHEAD!Yesterday, Flor and Audrey got out of the shop for a little field trip to CAT Sandblasting &...
10/09/2026

FIELD TRIP DAY AT MOTORHEAD!

Yesterday, Flor and Audrey got out of the shop for a little field trip to CAT Sandblasting & Powder Coating while we dropped off a few pieces for our 1968 Camaro project.

Owner Brian was nice enough to give them a tour of his unbelievable facility and walk them through the powder-coating process. It’s one thing to install freshly powder-coated parts, but it’s another to understand the preparation, what can and can’t be coated, and how much goes into getting the finish right.

He showed them hundreds of colors, textures, and finishes, along with some of the work CAT does for some very well-known companies.

We believe the more our team understands about every part of the restoration process, the better we can do our jobs back at Motorhead.

A huge thank-you to Brian for taking the time to show Flor and Audrey around. We’re lucky to have a company like CAT so close to the shop.

Audrey did spend a little too much time looking at the color samples, though. Pretty sure she was trying to figure out if Brian could powder coat her trademark boots.

We had a visit today from Motoring Florida, thank you for stopping by and checking out the new shop!
10/08/2026

We had a visit today from Motoring Florida, thank you for stopping by and checking out the new shop!

Address

2116 17th Street E
Palmetto, FL
34221

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm

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+19413018546

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