Woody's Hot Rodz

23950 Salt Fork Road

Bright, Indiana 47025

From the East: Take I74 West to New Haven Rd. Exit, turn left onto New Haven Rd., then turn right onto Harrison Ave, left on Broadway, left on State Street.  Follow state street into Indiana, road turns into Jamison, continue on Jamison until stop sign, turn left onto Stateline Rd. then slight right on Salt Fork.  We are the second building on the left.

From the South: Take 275 to Route 50 in Lawrenceburg, at end of ramp make a right onto Rt. 50, follow to Stateline Road, go left follow into Bright, make a sharp left onto Salt Fork. We are the second building on the left.

Phone: 812-637-1933

Fax: 812-637-2370

Email us at

info@woodyshotrodz.com

Regular Office Hours:    

Monday - Friday 7:30 - 4:30

csondles@woodyshotrodz.com

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Joe Shinliver

jshinliver@woodyshotrodz.com

General Manager

bgraber@woodyshotrodz.com

Metal Finishing, Body, Reassembly, & Web design

Brett Davis

Paint & Body

Matthew Baldwin

Body, Fabrication, Reassembly, & Interior Finishing

Marlin Oelker

Handyman

dheninger@woodyshotrodz.com

Business Development Manager

From humble beginnings in a backyard garage Woody’s Hot Rodz was founded with the dream of becoming one of the nation premier builders of classic hot rods. Fast forward 6 years and we now have 8 employees working out of two separate facilities with more than 7,500 sq ft of; our dream is coming to fruition. Woody’s specializes in creating one-of-a-kind turnkey hot rods and muscle cars. Our understanding of state-of-the-art performance technology and our love of old school aesthetics blend together to create classic looking cars that can perform head-to-head with modern sports cars. We pride ourselves in building vehicles that are meant to be driven; after all the Woody’s motto is “Why stare at it? When you can stand on it!” Christopher Sondles, the founder of Woody’s Hot Rodz, has had a life long passion with classic and performance cars. At the age of two Christopher got his first taste of hot rods as he observed his father Fred restore a 1957 Chevy; the same car he has today, and ever since he has been heavily involved in the industry. Woody’s is considered by many to be one of the best kept secrets in the hot rod world, but we continue to gain greater recognition with each passing project. We are very proud to have built the 2009 Street Rodder Tour Car, which has been a true testament to the reliability of our vehicles. Jerry Dixey drove our 1952 Chevy Morrison chassis car over 20,000 miles in only 4 months! Woody’s builds dreams; from frame to paint we have the knowledge and experience to turn your dream car into a reality. Woody’s Hot Rodz is centrally located in the heartland of our nation in Bright, Indiana, only minutes west of Cincinnati. Our recent expansion has help increase capacity and we are now accepting new projects. To get a general idea of our shop policies regarding customer projects please read to information provided below.

Project Policies

1. We work on a Time + Materials basis, as is the case with any reputable restoration shop. Our rate is $65.00 per man-hour (September 2009). Any parts that are required are additional. We will research multiple suppliers, when possible, to ensure the best quality for the best price.

2. We want you to realize that due to the many unknown and unforeseen repairs on your restoration project there is NO good way to estimate the costs involved or amount of time a project will take without first disassembling the vehicle. We do not give firm estimates! No two builds are the same, even if the vehicles seem identical.  There may be the need for original or custom parts that weren't needed in the previous build. What we will do is first disassemble the project completely. This would entail removal of all body parts, chrome, suspension, interior, and possibly sandblasting to remove paint. Doing this gives us a better idea of what needs to be done. We will then create a list of items that need to be or should be repaired. We want to help in anyway to decide if the restoration of your vehicle will be financially feasible because of this we will invite you to the shop to review this list. This way we both have an idea of the direction the project will take. We ask that you keep in mind that restoration is never an inexpensive or hasty venture and a sizeable financial commitment must be made prior to starting any project, along with patience. With collector cars the sky is the limit to how far a project can go, what we will do is make recommendations and then take the project the direction you wish to go.

  3.  We will maintain close contact with you during the build of your project. You will get bi-weekly invoices which break down labor hours, materials, and parts.  Labor reports can be provided upon request to show the exact breakdown of the time spent on your project.  We also keep phone logs for all calls placed on behalf of your project, whether the call is with you or suppliers when ordering parts.  We will also take photographs of each phase of your build.  Those photos are available to our customers via this website, on a disk, or email.

  4.  We do require an initial deposit to start work on your project.  The initial deposit is for 80 hours of labor and is applied at the end of the project.

 5. Once the project is complete we will also offer to detail the car for you, check the nuts and bolts, touch up general road chips, etc. after the first year free of charge. We stand behind our work and will, for the period of one year, fix or repair any body, paint, or mechanical items excluding the motor and any reused mechanical parts that are not a result of abuse or carelessness. Paint work warranty ONLY applies to vehicles stripped to bare metal by us or one of our sub-contractors. 

This information is to help potential customers become more aware of our shop policies and to provide a general framework of how we handle finances with clients. If you have any questions or concern in relation to our policies please contact our shop by phone (812-637-1933) or email dheninger@woodyshotrodz.com.

We appreciate your business. Thank you for considering Woody's Hot Rodz.

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