Chrome Orchard Garage
A vintage car restoration site with oil-company signs, a plate wall and the shop rate on the page.
Chrome Orchard is a made-up garage. We built it to show what a site can do for an automotive business.
- Industry
- Automotive
- Pages
- 7
- Built with
- WordPress and Etch
- Live site
- Visit the site
The brief
A full restoration takes months and a lot of money, so owners want to know what they're signing up for. Chrome Orchard shows the shop rate, how a build is billed and the Friday photo updates before anyone books a visit.
What it does differently
Before and after
Drag the handle to see where each car started.
The shop rate, up front
$125 an hour, the same for every restorer.
Six stops, start to keys
A numbered work order, from intake to keys.
Photos every Friday
Every car gets a progress update.
Design decisions
Enamel red, mustard and garage green on cream and oil black, with oil-company signs, a licence-plate wall and vintage gas pumps. Yellowtail for the signpainter script, Big Shoulders for the headlines, Work Sans for everything else.
PageSpeed on mobile
- 99
- Performance
- 97
- Accessibility
- 100
- Best practices
Mobile scores from Google PageSpeed Insights, on our standard build with no speed plugins. Our own site scores 97 with analytics, a chat widget and a cookie banner running.
Every page, on a phone.
Want one like this for your business?
Twenty minutes with Carson and you'll know what your site needs, what it costs, and whether we're the right fit.