I called and spoke with Eric regarding having disc brakes installed on my 1970 Buick Riviera. Eric gave me a rough estimate, but also reminded me that the price could change, depending on if he encountered any issues that needed to be addressed. This was understood because it is an old car. He said he needed to call around to find the wheel kit for the vehicle, and would give me an update. Eric gave me a call later in the day to update me on his search. I honestly didn't expect to get an update, but it was a pleasant surprise. Communication is very important to me. I feel more comfortable with trusting him and his team to take care of my car, especially because this car was given to me by my dad, who trusted that I would take care of it. read more

not good, virtually everything they had done and installed has failed.. new trans fluid cooler leaks, cracked male end...new fuel pump, leaks, fuel lines leak, power steering pump failed, Custom AC lines failed and they charged way to much for a wiring harness install.... read more

OC rods has the best top mechanics for car been in the business for 40 years. These guys are honest and do the right thing and do recommend them to anyone for any There has a good attitude and a great people and that's what you want OC Rods and the best. read more

I purchased a Chevelle from Danny a couple weeks ago. he was knowledgeable with all my questions and I felt no pressure during the buying process. The tranny had a few issues or two. But they sent it out for a rebuild at no cost to me. This is after I already purchased the car, so I was very pleased with the service they provided to make me a happy customer! They put on new headers and a full exhaust system, which sounds spectacular! And also charged me a fair price for doing that. I would highly recommend dealing with these guys! They have plenty of help in their garage, which is way better than dealing with someplace that has only two mechanics to do all the work. They seem to really care about the customer. I will continue to bring my car back to them.Thank you OC Rods! read more

Steve and Kelly and the crew are amazing and super knowledgeable and friendly. This is the only shop I'd trust with my 74 F100. Brought my truck here a few times. Had my Wilwood master cylinder installed one time and another when my wheel bearings went out. Prices are more than fair and they are quick. Additionally their tshirts are killer too b read more

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I took my 1969 Roadrunner 383 for some valve adjustment and some overall tuning. I looked at the reviews, and I was convinced they would do good work. Unfortunately, I'm not happy with the work. She's still running rough; I should have saved my money. A little backstory, my car's been firing up decently for a couple of years. I dropped my car off, and the next thing you know, they claim it won't start. Never had a problem with it starting. They claimed my ignition switch is sticking. Again, for a couple of years now, I've never had a problem with it. Next thing you know, my coil was wired incorrectly, even though it's been running alright for a couple of years. Claiming that caused my MSD distributor to go bad. So, Brand New MSD distributor, later new coil, new ignition switch, and still not the results I was looking for. In my opinion, runs the same or even worse, try calling, no answers or call backs, not worth the money. seems fishy that you decide for urself read more

OC Rods and Danny helped me keep a little faith in humanity. Had an alternator go out driving home after I bought a nice old truck. Danny and the shop flatbedded it back, switched out the alternator and battery. Didn't have to do it, but they did. Top notch service and are looking out for their customers! read more

So...I don't like to do this, but in this case, it's necessary. TAKE YOUR CHANCES WITH THIS SHOP/MECHANIC! Brought my 66 van in after finding this garage online. Over the phone Steve (owner) sounded legit. EXPLANATION: I was told over the phone by Steve, "bring it in and we'll get it back to you the same or next day". Well, I did just that...I brought it in. In person...again, nice guy. Gives me a receipt and says, "I'll call you in the AM with a quote". (My ticket leaving says $125 valve adjustment). NEXT MORNING: Nothing!!! At 12:08pm, I call and he says he's been really busy and he'll get one of his guys on it...also, he'll be giving me a call back in a couple hours. Still NO CALL at 4:45pm, so I call and (Roy answers)...tells me that Steve had left for the day! I said, " he was supposed to call me back". I'm now thinking WTF. Roy says, "I'll be looking at it myself and I'll probably need to pull the sending unit to check the filter". I explained to him the tank & sending unit is only 2 months old maximum. It reasonable I think...Things do go bad...No problem, He says, he'll have Steve get back to me in the AM. AM Next day: phone call...Steve...sorry for not calling you back. Your van...going to see what the problem is! Call you shortly with a better $ idea. Ok LATER: Steve...So the choke assembly is NO more good. There are Metal shavings all over and your choke's not working right. I can get you a new choke in like a month or we can slap another carb on it. Your choice! I explained...that carb (WEBER) was less than a year old, so Just adjust the valves. Steve says, well...we'll adjust the valves and get it running until you can figure out what exactly you want to do. EVENING: called to pick up. I pick it up and find a new fuel pump (no problem), fuel line replaced (no problem) and fuel line shortened (looked better/cleaner). PAID $480 Driving home...running the same or worse than before. Stopped for fuel because the gauge was reading empty. Added $40 only to find that the gauge wasn't working. So, I thought it may have been put back in upside down. Reasonable right? AND I wondered...why wouldn't the mechanic at least check the gauge after messing with the sending unit? Now I'm back home and I started looking at the choke assembly myself. I, end up removing the choke element only to find that the triangular plate holding it on was forcibly forced back on (way out of position in order to make it run better) with two majorly stripped out screws. (See pic) Three screws hold the plate on. How about adding another screw? Call shop in the AM. Tell him what I did about getting it running and that my fuel gauge may have went back incorrectly. Steve...no problem, bring it back in and I'll have one of my guys check it while you wait. 10AM, I bring it back in. An hour later (while waiting), Steve says, "come here and look at this...shows me the sending unit with a electrical current reader attached to it and says...it's bad! I say, that's weird, it was working when I dropped it off. He says, "Well they do go bad". I think ok reasonable and it is over 2 months old and made in China. Reasonable...Coincidence? Steve says, get another sending unit and bring it by...we'll pop it in. I'm thinking...finish putting my shit back together, so I can get out of here. Once I got my vehicle back, THE GAS CAP WAS MISSING. You gotta be kidding me. I headed back in...said, you guys are now sending me away with no gas cap. I said, I won't be back. Steve says, thank you and good". Wow...this was a $480 lesson and a story to tell. Look, I'm just sharing my personal experience. Use it or not! From OC to Lake Elsinore and now Murrieta? Maybe they don't have a good track record. BEWARE! Contact me if needed. ADDED: After being told that my fuel sending unit was bad...I ordered another unit online this afternoon. I also, topped off my tank, since it was reading empty...guess what is miraculously started working. So either it's magic or their "testing unit" is bad. I haven't even got the new unit in the mail yet. Another $50 and a waste of my valuable time..thanks for nothing, but a waste of time, money and nonsense. Added pic of fuel gauge...oh and your response. You are a LIAR...TRY AND TWIST YOUR GUYS' unprofessional behavior and your mechanic did remove the SENDING UNIT...HE SAID SO HIMSELF and why would you apologize and tell me to bring it back in? What a bunch of jibber jabber. GEEZ THIS TICKS ME SO OFF! read more

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If I could give them more stars I would! I saw their ad that they were selling a 1971 Mustang Mach1 at a great price. I called the number on the ad and talked with Danny who told me about the car. We made a deal on the phone call and he held the car for me with the down payment I sent him. I drove up from San Diego the following Monday and he had the car ready to go for me. Danny was super cool and friendly. We went into the office to complete the paperwork and unfortunately the lady that does all the DMV paperwork wasn't there. Even though, Danny wasn't the one responsible for this paperwork he made an attempt to fill it out because he knew I had driven some distance to pick up the car and didn't want me to wait any longer. Once we completed the paperwork, which did state it was being SOLD AS IS, He called a tow truck for me to have the car towed home since I drove up by myself and couldn't drive it home. A couple days later I drove the car to get an exhaust leak (which had been disclosed) repaired at a local muffler shop. Once the car was fixed it failed to turn on. No power whatsoever. I replaced the battery but still wouldn't even crank over. So I had the car pushed to a neighboring mechanic shop to checkout the problem. After about 4 days of not being able to figure out the problem I called Danny and asked him if there was anything I needed to know about the car to get it running again. I told him I knew I bought it AS IS but I just wanted any helpful information. At this point, Danny did not hesitate and told me to bring it back to their shop and he would get it fixed at no cost. I had it towed back up to the shop and Danny told me he would get back to me with information once they found out the problem. He called me the next morning and told me they got the car started but they found some other issues wrong with it and he wanted to get it fixed before I picked it up. I agreed and after a few days Danny called me and told me everything they did to it and that it was ready to go home. He even had the car towed back to my house so I wouldn't have to drive up there to pick it up. Danny went above and beyond to make things right and he was very friendly, upfront, and helpful during this whole ordeal. I would gladly do business with OC and Danny again. read more

Steve the owner is a stand up guy... I will continue to bring all my cars here. Had a rocky beginning but overall he delivered, always accessible, and he did what he said he would do. read more

I just have to thank Steve and Kelly at OC Rods Customs & Classics. Some mechanics and builders are really knowledgeable, some are fairly priced, some communicate well, and some are real partners in your classic hot rod experience. Very rarely do you find all these qualities in one place. Such is the case with Steve and Kelly Brigandi. So appreciative of their work. read more

OC Rods and Customs - 1969 Mustang Fastback Restomod Hot Rod - Auto Customization Near Me - Temecula, California

We just bought a 2006 Convertible Corvette from Danny. Nice car very clean, low miles. When we were going to drive off with it we noticed an issue with the automatic top. He ended up putting some extra time into it and made sure when we did pick it up that it was in working condition as it should. Also after putting the extra labor into it he stayed at the orginal price. We would highly recommend doing business with Danny at this shop if your looking to buy a car. read more

Can't say enough great things about OC Rods. These are true craftsman that know their stuff. I have them sort out every one of my classic cars and they are always top shelf. This crew knows classics. They get 100% of my business and we restore 5 cars a year. read more

My husband bought himself a classic car in October and needed some things fixed on it, he decided to take it to OC Rods and customs. When he spoke with the owner Steve he let him know what he needed and wanted done, Steve quoted my husband $1100. That was just to do the install of the parts my husband had already purchased. My husband had the car towed to the facility and asked if the owner could take a look at everything else it needed done and get back to him with an additional price, he asked for it to be fixed to be road worthy. The owner let my husband know everything that was wrong and what needed to be done and my husband decided to pick and choose what he wanted them to fix, the main thing was the brakes and the carburetor, which was supposed to be rebuilt, well the carburetor was not rebuilt and the car chokes and coughs on the takeoff and then just shuts off, the tranny was serviced and bolts were not even tightened properly, there are so many things that were supposed to be done and either was done very poorly or not done at all, so finally after about 4 weeks of the car being at the shop we finally got to go pick it up. The shop is in Temecula and we had to drive it home to Corona well we didn't make it home, the car overheated and was spewing terribly bad, we ended up getting off the freeway and sitting on the off ramp waiting for a tow truck to tow the car home, since getting the car home about 3 weeks ago my husband has found so many more problems with the car that weren't even told to him from the owner Steve at OC Rods & Customs, it's really terrible that my husband paid him A LOT of money to do basically nothing. This place is terrible and I would highly recommend you NEVER go to this establishment for any service AT ALL EVER. Very disappointed and dissatisfied with this company. MY HUSBAND GOT BURNED read more

I purchased a car in full. The salesperson, Rich, told my mom (who went to pick up the car for me) "I don't know what your daughter did to get all this money so I'm not gonna ask what's she's been doing...". Very misogynistic and sexist when all I wanted was to purchase a car. I was very excited and traveled very far to check this place out but I won't be back and won't recommend to anyone. read more

My wife and I went to OC Rods and Customs to purchase a 1969 Camaro. It was a fantastic experience! Danny was great to work with and made the purchasing process enjoyable. Hope to do business here again! read more

The 1971 NICLEY RESTORED Chevy Nova that i purchased ONLINE @ OC RODS AND CUSTOMS was and has been a complete disapointment in more ways than one. Starting with the dishonesty of the Sales Rep.on the restoration of the car to the promises made of parts i would recieve but did not. The paint on the Car and work done to the interior was just enough to destract you from everthing else that wasnt done. From the compleatly wore out parts on the front suspention to the damage to all the heater and aircondition unit under the Dash that has been melted compleatly beon repair from a wire short that resulted in Fire to all the controls and vent work. Thats probably the reason Dan the sales person was so nice and offerd me a new Engine dress up kit for the car and then decide one the sale was done and i let him know of my displeaser, I never heard back from him or his company. Please take caution when buying Nicely Restord 1971 chevy Nova's from this place, OC RODS AND CUSTOMS in Temecula California 27840 Del Rio Road read more