Autobody Metal Work and Custom Restoration
Gasburg, VA

Kent Writtenberry owns and operates Kentz Kustomz, a full-service custom auto and restoration shop in Gasburg, Virginia, on the same plot of land where he was born and raised. It was here that his father, Robert Writtenberry, once owned a used car lot and general store. “All the street racers and drag racers used to hang out at my daddy’s store,” Kent recalls. “They’d work on their cars, then race them up on Eaton Ferry Bridge on Saturday night.” As a young boy, Kent would hang around as the men worked on the racers’ bodies and under their hoods, absorbing all he could. “First I’d be their gopher, holding wrenches, whatever they needed, but I learned quick. By the time I was 10 years old, I could take a motor out of a car and put it back.”