Owner · 2240 Speed Shop
Terry Harmider
Terry Harmider owns and runs 2240 Speed Shop, the customs-and-classics garage at 2009 91 Ave NW in east Edmonton. He is the one who reads the quote requests, scopes the builds, and answers the phone. Every review with words in it names him personally. The brand is the man.
Who is Terry Harmider?
He is the owner of a working garage on 91 Avenue, not a franchise operator with a logo package. The shop calls itself customs and classics because that is what Terry put on the front of the building long before anybody suggested he needed a website. The sign reads CLASSICS AND CUSTOMS. The bio reads customs and classics. Either way you know exactly what you are looking at.
What comes through that door is a wide spread. Frame-off restorations. Restomods that keep the skin and modernize everything under it. LS and diesel conversions. Rust cut out of quarters and floors that Alberta winters have been working on for fifty years. British roadsters and Detroit muscle share the same bay.
The through-line is not a specialty. It is a standard. Old cars are honest about whether the person working on them cares, and the shop's reputation was built by people who came back a second and third time — the kind of reviews that use the word quality and then name the man who delivered it.
What does the sign mean?
Above the door on the pale green siding hangs a disc cut from steel plate: SPEED SHOP arced over the top, 2240 across the middle with a pair of wrenches crossed behind the numbers, CLASSICS AND CUSTOMS arced underneath, and a star on each shoulder. The steel has gone rust-brown outside through however many Edmonton winters it has stood there.
It is not a vinyl banner and it did not come from a sign shop's catalogue. It is a fabricated object, hung on a building, in the same material the shop works in every day. That is the whole brand: cut it, hang it, let the weather do the rest.
We built this site around that sign rather than around a stock photo of somebody else's garage.
The standard, stated plainly
A photographer pulled over for the D100.
The shop's 1960s Dodge D100 has a light patch worn into the hood where decades of sun and hands took the paint back. In September 2025 a photographer driving past saw it, pulled over, and shot the truck on the spot — camera already in the car, trip interrupted.
Nobody staged that. It is the clearest statement of what the shop is after: build things that make strangers stop in traffic. Not the shiniest car at the show — the one people walk back to.
Every September the shop runs the road to Radium for the Columbia Valley Classics Show & Shine — a thousand-plus classics parked in a mountain town, and the one weekend a year the tools go quiet. If you want to meet Terry without booking anything, that is where he is.
The rest of the year he is here, and the shop soundtrack is Metallica and Guns N' Roses at working volume. Nobody is going to apologize for that.
Where the scope conversation happens
There is a room at the front with orange walls, old porcelain soda signs, a Mopar Performance banner, and a table big enough to spread photos across. That is where builds get argued out before anything gets cut.
It is also where birthdays happen, where lunch happens, and where a customer who shows up with a barn find on a trailer gets a coffee and a straight opinion about whether it is worth saving. Sometimes the answer is no. You get told that either way.
A shop this size only takes on what it can finish properly, which is why booking a build slot is a conversation and not a checkout button.
What Terry will tell you himself
- What is actually rusted, before you spend money on paint.
- Whether your car is worth restoring, or worth selling to somebody who wants that one.
- Which half of the budget to spend first so the car is usable sooner.
What the shop does
Restoration
Frame-off or rolling. Honest scope, real hours, one standard.
Restomods & Hot Rods
Classic skin, modern spine. Rolling works of art with brakes that work.
Engine Swaps & Builds
LS and diesel conversions. Old iron, modern heart — starts at minus thirty.
Performance & Tuning
Carbs rebuilt and dialed. Points to electronic ignition. Horsepower you can feel.
Body, Paint & Metal
Rust dies here. Patch panels, floor pans, straight steel, deep paint.
Interiors & Classic Service
Period-correct materials, discreet modern comfort.
Got a project? Let's talk straight.
Photos in, honest scope out. Two business days. Terry reads every one himself.