Do cool stuff.
Meet great people.
Have a good time.
That is the actual dream, in the owner's own words. The business is just the part that pays for it.
Honest good work for honest good people
Top Notch Garage is a general and custom automotive shop in Auburn, Alabama, and it is not trying to be a chain. There is no service writer, no waiting room television, no script about your cabin air filter.
What there is: a set of bays, a welder, a lift, and somebody who would genuinely rather build the thing you are picturing than upsell you a package you did not ask for. Trucks, cars, bikes, four-wheelers, mowers, skid steers. Any build, any ride, any toy.
The name is the standard. Let's take it up a notch is not a slogan somebody bought — it is the whole reason the shop is called what it is called.
The short version
Text first
Send a photo. You will get a real answer from a real person, usually faster than a phone call.
Say the number out loud
You approve the price before anything happens. No line items appearing at pickup.
Take the hard jobs
Dash-outs, wiring gremlins, wrecked rebuilds, oddball equipment. Somebody has to.
Show the work
Builds go in the gallery and on the channel. If we did it, you can look at it.
Watch a build happen
Full teardowns and rebuilds get filmed, including a two-part series bringing a wrecked truck back. Not many shops will show you the middle of a job — that is exactly the part worth seeing.