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About Us

we don't restore cars

We give them new lives

We keep the soul, fix the flaws, and make sure they’re ready for the road, not the museum.

Street Rat exists because a few friends with a serious classics obsession looked at the classic car world and decided to do it differently. Our name reminds us to stay sharp. Streetwise. Resilient. Always authentic. We’re not the tuxedo-and-white-glove crowd. Just rats with taste who couldn’t leave it alone.

Step into Salt River and it makes sense. Gallery feel, workshop grit, the smell of leather and petrol. Pour something at Murder Your Darlings and stay a while.

what are we?

Part showroom. Part bar

Stay a while

15 years making purists weep

If it doesn't offend someone
it's not finished yet

Our workshop has spent fifteen years mastering the tension between heritage and rebellion. We don’t just work on cars, we work on their character. Whether we’re reviving a rare icon to its former glory or reimagining a classic silhouette with something more aggressive underneath, precision is always the starting point.

From nut-and-bolt restorations to full restomod builds, we respect the engineering of the past without being prisoners to it.

If you want a shop that treats a classic with the reverence it deserves, while still being bold enough to give it an attitude problem, you’ve found us.

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