4625 Kincaid as it appears today

4625 Kincaid Avenue, Norfolk VA 23502     (757) 216-1745

This facility was a brake manufacturing plant in the early 1960’s. Sometime in the 1980s it became a warehouse for packaging and shipping classic cars to Europe.  A local Norfolk businessman purchased vehicles from around the U.S. and crated them for sale.  He used the local shipping ports to send the vehicles abroad. This business ran until the late 1990’s when a hot-tub sales company purchased the facility and used it for a short time as a showroom but mostly for a storage facilty.
          

 In June 2006 the facilty burned destroying the contents of the building, the electrical system and the roof.  FantomWorks purchased the facility in November of 2006 and we set about the task of rebuilding the facility and turning it into a full service classic car restoration facility.

 This newly renovated 7,500 SF facility includes everything to complete your restoration quickly and professionally.

• · Disassembly Facilities with Dedicated Safe Storage for all of Your Vehicle’s Components

o       Rotisseries and Dollies to Guarantee Vehicles are Prepared Inside and Out, as well as Upside and Down 

o       Asymmetric, symmetric, and 4 Post alignment lifts Ensuring Everything is Accessible

• · Parts Cleaning/Washing
• · Rust Removal Capabilities Including:

Positive Pressure Heated Air Makeup 1.4Million BTU Oversized booth

 o       Media Blast Room for Entire Vehicles and Multiple Media Blast Cabinets for any Type of Automotive Component

o       Complete Body Shop Air Tools Providing Removal and Replacement of any Patch or Full Panel including Capabilities to Fabricate Many Panels from Scratch

• · Hydraulic Frame Straightening
• · Machine Shop with Metal Brakes, Sheers, Roll-Formers, Lathes, and Mills
• · Comprehensive Air, Power, and Hand Tools to Complete Any Job Professionally
• · Full Service Welding Capabilities Including:

o       MIG, TIG, Oxy Acetylene, Arc, Stud, Spot, and Stitch Welders

• · State-of-the-Art Positive Pressure, True Down-Draft, Heated, Oversized Paint Bay
• · Full Service Tire Changing and Wheel Alignment Capability
• Complete Engine, Transmission, and Differential Rebuilding
• · Powder Coating to Ensure Show Quality Parts stay that way
• Wiring of your vehicle: rebuilding, replacing, or modifying harnesses
• · Full Service Interior Shop to Restore to Original or Customized as Desired
• Compressed Air Provided by Rotary Screw-Drive Air Compressors Ensuring Perfect Air — Always
• · We are a Distributor for the World’s Largest Manufacturer of Restoration and Repair Trim, Fasteners, Connectors, and Rubber Parts
• · Business Licenses on display
• Incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia
• · Fully Insured Against any Reasonable Hazard

Our determined efforts have been successful and we are expanding into a larger facility to keep pace with the customer’s demands. The New facilities are approximately 24,000 square feet and the available floor space will be divided into six functional areas.

1. Showroom (First Floor)

2. Complete Upholstery/Interior Shop (First Floor)

3. Mechanical Work (engines, suspension, transmissions, brakes, carburetion, etc) (First Floor)

4. Metal Fabrication Shop (Second Floor)

5. Body Shop with paint bay (Second Floor)

6. Final Assembly including vehicle component storage (Second Floor)

FAC  II

1001 Monticello as it appeared in the late 1930s

We will soon be EXPANDING to 1001 Monticello Ave, Norfolk VA…

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Top Floor Floor Plan

Bottom Floor Floor Plan

 History of this Facility as we understand it through many stories from the local folks who grew up around here and either worked there or purchased their vehicles there:

1911 to 1930’s – Pierless Dealership

Initial part of the facilities built 1911 to 1915. This is reported to be the earliest existing car dealership in the state of virginia and has the oldest operating elevator (which also happens to be a CAR elevator) in the Tidewater area.

Pierce Arrow Dealership from opening until sometime in the 1930’s

1930’s to 1957 -  F.  A.  Rothke

1001 Monticello as a DeSoto Dealership under F.A. Roethke circa 1957

During the mid 1930’s an additional section was added to the facilities roughly doubling the size.

Mid 1930’s the building changed from Pierless to a Desoto Dealership under F.A. Rothke until approximately 1956.

1957 to 1967

When F.A. Rothke died he left the facility to his wife who rented it out to XXXXXXX and it became a Plymouth dealership.  Approcimately 1963, the Plymouth dealership expanded to include Dodge vehicles as well and it remained the XXXXXXXXXXX Plymouth-Dodge dealership unitl the late 1960’s

1967 – 1973 -

Klein Chevrolet body shop from the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s

1973 – 2009 -

Storage from early 1970’s until July 2010. In 2007 the zoning was formally changed from light industrial to warehousing. In 2009 the city was petitioned to rezone the building from warehousing back to light industrial and the effort was successful making the rezoning a significant event within the city with some stating that this is the first time in the city’s history they remember a building being rezoned back to light industrial.

2010 -

DRS FantomWorks full service restoration faciltiy July 2010…