"In a long-vacant industrial building on Mare Island, once a vital cog in the U.S. Navy's shipbuilding machine, a very different kind of manufacturing hum has taken hold. Where trains once rolled inside carrying steel and supplies for submarines and ships, technicians now strip, rebuild and re-engineer classic vehicles, many of them reborn as electric cars designed to meet modern expectations of performance, safety and reliability."
"Kindred Motorsports is a restorer and modifier, or restomod, founded by technology and supply chain veteran Rob Howard. Its mission is to do something traditional restoration shops have struggled to achieve at scale: deliver fully rebuilt, turnkey classic vehicles using standardized processes, proprietary technology and factory-like quality control. And all that while preserving the emotional pull that made the originals iconic."
"For Howard, the Vallejo company is the culmination of decades spent restoring cars one painstaking evening at a time. When my family went to bed, instead of watching a rerun of Shawshank Redemption' or something like that, I would go out in the garage and work on restoring cars, he said. I saw how hard it was to do that."
A long-vacant industrial building on Mare Island now houses technicians who strip, rebuild and re-engineer classic vehicles, many reborn as electric cars built to modern performance, safety and reliability standards. Kindred Motorsports is a restorer and modifier, or restomod, founded by technology and supply chain veteran Rob Howard. The company uses standardized processes, proprietary technology and factory-like quality control to deliver fully rebuilt, turnkey classic vehicles at scale while preserving the originals' emotional appeal. Howard's personal decades of overnight restorations and frustration with inconsistent results, combined with a career in logistics and enterprise technology, motivated a manufacturing-minded restoration business.
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