Workshop: Down Town Kustoms

Down Town Kustoms in the NSW town of Taree have been turning out some very unique and interesting rides.

Down Town Kustoms was established by Graeme Brewer who decided to turn his hobby of vehicle fabrication into a career by opening his own full-time workshop. "I was doing 'bag jobs and chassis work at home and thought I'd try opening my own business" he says. The enterprise has now been in operation for over seven years and it started in Graeme’s home garage in Tuncurry before moving to its current Taree address in late 2013.

Down Town specialises in full custom builds of muscle cars, hot rods and customs, but also perform chassis and suspension work, coach building, metal shaping, traditional panel beating, body work and paint. The workshop they are in now is even big enough to have its own paint booth.

"The bulk of our work is turnkey custom cars," he says. And the customers come from far and wide. "Three of our current projects comes from Sydney, with another from Western Australia and one from Japan".

Graeme also employs two fabricators; Damien Parker who manages the shop as well as doing fabrication work, and Ayden Hunt who is a metal shaper, beater and fabricator. Between the three of them they can do everything from chassis design right through to final assembly.

One of their customer cars, the chopped, channelled, widened and slammed LS-powered FJ of Dave Keen, earned a place in the Meguiar’s Super Stars, and the other projects currently in-the-build, such as Peter Sharp's insane HQ Monaro project known as SHQRP, are aiming for similar accolades.

If you’re curious to know and see more there’s a special magazine with Down Town Kustoms as the cover story. It’s called Retro Kustoms and it is available for sale right now.

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