A. Heritage and trust$1,520 fixed
Beckwith Trailer Co.
Family restoration shops with decades of trailers behind them, whose best sales tool is the long list of trailers they have already saved.
Vintage trailer restoration website examples: four designs for restoration shops
Four finished websites for vintage trailer restorers: the family shop that has rebuilt trailers since the seventies, the design studio that restores aluminium trailers like mid-century furniture, the bold shop that strips trailers to the frame, and the quote machine with restored trailers for sale and a restoration estimate. Click through any of them, then order the one that fits.
MigrateLab builds high-performing websites for local businesses. Fixed price, live in 7 working days, fast on mobile, and yours to keep.
B. Premium design-led$2,320 fixed
Aluminia Trailer Studio
Design-led restoration studios that take on a handful of high-value projects a year and need the site to read like a furniture maker’s portfolio, not a parts catalogue.
C. Bold and industrial$1,920 fixed
Rivetbuck Restorations
Heavy restoration shops that do full frame-off rebuilds of riveted aluminium trailers and want the welding, the steel and the hours to be the sales pitch.
D. Lead machine$2,320 fixed
TinTop Trailer Co.
Restoration shops that sell their own restored trailers and want the site to move both stock and bookings for customer builds.
You get the design you pick, made into your own site
Every demo on this page is a real layout we rebuild for you. The structure, the sections and the special feature stay as you see them. Your name, logo, colours, photos and wording replace ours, so it looks like it was always yours, and no other business in your area gets the same site.
Stays as you see it
- The layout and page structure, section by section
- The special feature, like the map, calculator or booking calendar
- How it looks and works on a phone, and how fast it loads
- Type and spacing tuned so it still looks designed
Becomes yours
- Your business name and logo. No logo yet? We set your name in a clean wordmark
- Your brand colours, applied across buttons, headings and backgrounds
- Your photos, or licensed photos chosen for your trade
- Your services, prices, service area, team and reviews
- Your phone, email, address and domain
Want a section from another design, or one moved or left out? Put it in your notes. Small changes like that are included.
A trailer restoration is a long, expensive project, and owners hand over a family heirloom or a rare find to a shop they have usually only seen online. They want to see before and after, understand what a full restoration involves, know what it costs and how long it takes, and see restored trailers for sale. Most restoration shops show builds on Facebook and Instagram and quote by phone.
The four sites below sell restorations four different ways. One sells a family shop and decades of trailers saved. One sells design, with each restoration shown like a furniture project. One sells the heavy work, stripped frames and new floors, as proof. One is a lead machine with trailers for sale and a restoration estimator. Every one is real, responsive and ready to rebuild around your shop.
Each design, in detail
A. Heritage and trust
Beckwith Trailer Co.
About 600 old trailers back on the road since 1976.
$1,520 fixed, 7 working days
Who it suits. Family restoration shops with decades of trailers behind them, whose best sales tool is the long list of trailers they have already saved.
Why it converts.
- The year slider lets an owner find a trailer like theirs from their own model year, before and after, which is the proof they came for
- Starting prices for both restoration levels are on the page, so the enquiries that arrive already fit the budget
- A clear queue and next start slot answers the question every owner asks on the phone, and the form collects make, year and photos up front
What we swap for your business. Your founding story, family photos, restoration archive by year, your levels and prices, the current queue and your shop address. The trailer badge is redrawn around your name and year.
- Palette
- CreamTurquoiseCherryChrome greyInk
- Type
- Abril Fatface for headings, Josefin Sans for text
- Logo
- Rounded canned ham trailer silhouette in turquoise and cream two-tone with a cherry stripe, Beckwith set in fat serif across the body and "since 1976" on the hitch
- Sections
- Header with the shop phone, hero of a restored trailer at a campsite, founding year and the trailer count. Four numbers: since 1976, about 600 trailers, all makes, two generations. The trailers we have saved: a model-year slider from 1936 to 1972 with before and after for each restoration and its story. Gil and Marnie Beckwith, the father and daughter who run the shop. How a restoration goes, six stages from strip to interior. Two restoration levels with starting prices: cosmetic and full frame-off. The wait: trailers in the shop, the queue and the next start slot. Sample owner reviews. Tell us about your trailer form, with shop visiting hours and directions.
B. Premium design-led
Aluminia Trailer Studio
Four riveted aluminium trailers a year, finished like mid-century furniture.
$2,320 fixed, 7 working days
Who it suits. Design-led restoration studios that take on a handful of high-value projects a year and need the site to read like a furniture maker’s portfolio, not a parts catalogue.
Why it converts.
- The before and after slider lets a buyer feel the polish themselves, which does more than any claim about craftsmanship
- A materials board per restoration sells the interior the way a furniture maker would, so a $95,000 price reads as a commission, not a repair bill
- Four slots a year, with the open ones shown on the page, makes the enquiry form feel like an application worth sending now
What we swap for your business. Your restorations, before and after pairs, material palettes, stage timings, prices and slot calendar. The wordmark is reset in your name.
- Palette
- Off-whiteAluminiumWalnutMarigoldInk
- Type
- Marcellus for headings, Red Hat Text for text
- Logo
- Wide spaced classical wordmark in Marcellus over a single row of rivet dots, with a rounded trailer end profile as the mark
- Sections
- Split hero: a polished shell in a lavender field beside a short statement and the year’s four build slots. Polish reveal: a drag slider from oxidised to mirror-polished aluminium, with the materials board for that restoration. Three recent restorations as editorial spreads, numbered and dated. Nine months in six stages, from strip to handover. The studio and the two people who run it. What a restoration costs and what the price covers. Sample letters from owners. Apply for a build slot form.
C. Bold and industrial
Rivetbuck Restorations
Shell off. Frame welded. Every rivet bucked by hand.
$1,920 fixed, 7 working days
Who it suits. Heavy restoration shops that do full frame-off rebuilds of riveted aluminium trailers and want the welding, the steel and the hours to be the sales pitch.
Why it converts.
- The nine stage tracker shows a real build in progress, so an owner sees exactly where six months and $58,000 go before they ever call
- Price and timeline sit in the first screen, which filters out tire kickers and brings in owners ready to commit
- Hours, rivet counts and frame photos prove the heavy work, which is the one thing a cheaper shop cannot fake
What we swap for your business. Your stages, hours and live build data, your prices and wait time, your shop photos and crew. The rivet mark is recoloured to your brand.
- Palette
- BlackBare aluminiumPrimer redSafety yellowBone
- Type
- Bebas Neue for headings, Atkinson Hyperlegible for text
- Logo
- A domed rivet head seen side-on, sitting on a bucked tail, in safety yellow, beside a tall condensed RIVETBUCK wordmark with RESTORATIONS set wide beneath
- Sections
- Hero: stripped frame photo, the claim, from $58,000 and 5 to 7 months, phone and survey button. What frame-off means: shell lifted, frame welded, new subfloor, rivets bucked, with the numbers. Frame-off, in nine stages: live stage tracker for a 1959 26 ft trailer with days, hours, parts and a running rivet count. Three recent frame-offs with hours and rivets. Why we buck every rivet by hand. Price and time: what $58,000 buys, what adds to it, how the payments run. The shop and the crew. Sample reviews from owners. Book a frame survey form.
D. Lead machine
TinTop Trailer Co.
Small vintage trailers, saved, sold and towed home.
$2,320 fixed, 7 working days
Who it suits. Restoration shops that sell their own restored trailers and want the site to move both stock and bookings for customer builds.
Why it converts.
- Buyers and restorers get their own path from the first screen, so nobody wades through the other half of the business
- The for-sale grid filters by the three things buyers ask first: length, sleeps and price
- The estimator gives a real price range and a start month before the form, so the requests that arrive are already qualified
What we swap for your business. Your trailers in stock, restoration levels and prices, estimator rates, build queue, photos and service area. The trailer mark is repainted in your colours.
- Palette
- WhiteTealCoralInkCream
- Type
- Fredoka for headings, Lato for text
- Logo
- A two-tone canned-ham trailer in teal and coral, with a rounded, bouncy wordmark
- Sections
- Sticky header with phone, Shop trailers and Get an estimate. Hero with two paths: buy a restored trailer or restore yours, with a featured trailer tag. Numbers strip: trailers restored, warranty, delivery radius, the current wait. Trailers for sale, filterable by length, sleeps and price. Restoration estimator: make, length, condition and level in, price range and weeks out, then a request form. Three restoration levels with prices and what each includes. Before and after, with the six stages of a frame-off build. Inside the trailers: interiors, fabrics and what we fit. Sample owner reviews. The shop, the crew and the build queue. FAQ. Final call to action, sticky mobile call and estimate bar.
What a great vintage trailer restorer website needs
01
Before and after
Every restoration, from the day it arrived to the day it left.
02
Build logs
The stages of a restoration: strip, frame, floor, shell, systems, interior.
03
Restoration levels
Cosmetic, mechanical, full frame-off. What each includes and costs.
04
Trailers for sale
Restored trailers ready to go, with prices and specs.
05
Makes you know
Airstream, Spartan, Shasta, canned hams. The trailers you specialise in.
06
Parts and systems
Axles, brakes, wiring, plumbing. Safety sells.
07
The wait
How many trailers are ahead, and when yours starts.
08
Fast on a phone
Owners send photos from the driveway and browse from a phone.
Price and how to buy
What a vintage trailer restorer website costs from us
One fixed price per design, everything below included, live in 7 working days from the day we have your basics. 50% to start, 50% when the site goes live. Card or bank transfer, invoice due on receipt.
Every price includes
- +The design you picked, rebuilt around your name, colours, logo and photos
- +Copy written for your services and your service area, not filler
- +A simple editor for text, photos, services and reviews, no code needed
- +Contact and quote forms wired to your inbox, tap-to-call on mobile
- +Search basics done properly: titles, descriptions, local business schema, sitemap, fast load
- +Your domain connected, your old site redirected if there is one
- +One round of changes before launch, and 30 days of fixes after it
How buying works
- 1
Pick a design
Choose the one that feels like your company. Mixing an element from another one is fine.
- 2
Send us the basics
Your logo if you have one, photos of your work, your services, service area, phone and email. A 15 minute call if you prefer talking to typing.
- 3
Review the preview
Within a week you get a private link to the finished site. One round of changes is included.
- 4
Go live
We connect your domain, redirect the old site, and hand you the keys. Nothing is held hostage.
Why MigrateLab
Why have us build it instead of a builder or an agency
You own it outright
The site is real code on your own hosting account, not a page inside a builder you rent. Leave us any time and take everything with you.
No platform subscription
Wix, Squarespace and Webflow charge every month forever. Hosting for a site like this costs a few dollars a month under your own account.
Built by people who do migrations for a living
MigrateLab moves company websites off closed platforms onto clean code. Small business sites are the same craft with less to move.
Fixed price, fixed week
The price on this page is the price. The week is the week. If we slip, you get a discount, not an excuse.
Fast on a phone, found on Google
Every site ships with the search basics done and a mobile score we are happy to show you. Most agency sites fail both.
AI can edit it, and so can you
Because it is plain code, tools like Claude and Cursor can change it in seconds. You also get a normal editor for everyday text and photo changes.
After launch
Editing and maintenance, made clear
Three ways to keep the site current after launch. Pick one at handover, switch later if you change your mind.
Edit it yourself
$0 per month
You get a simple editor for text, photos, services, reviews and service areas. Hosting runs under your own account for a few dollars a month. No contract with us.
- +Editor login for your team
- +Hosting under your own account
- +Written handover guide
- +Email support for 30 days
Care plan
$63 per month
We host it, watch it and change it for you. Send an email with the change, it is live within one working day. Cancel any month.
- +Hosting, backups and uptime monitoring
- +Unlimited small edits: text, photos, prices, hours, reviews
- +Security and dependency updates
- +A monthly note with visits, calls and form leads
Let AI edit it
$0 per month
The code is clean enough that Claude Code or Cursor can add a page, change a section or swap a photo from a plain English request. We set it up and show you how.
- +Repository handed over to you
- +AI tooling configured
- +One recorded walkthrough
- +Bigger changes quoted per job
Questions
How much does a vintage trailer restorer website cost?
From us, $1,520 to $2,320 as a fixed, one-time price, depending on which of the four designs you pick, live in 7 working days. That includes the design rebuilt around your business, the copy, forms, search basics and connecting your domain. After launch you can edit it yourself for $0 a month or have us look after it for $63 a month. For comparison, agencies typically quote $3,000 to $10,000 for a small business site, and builder subscriptions run $20 to $50 a month for as long as the site exists.
Will my site look exactly like the demo?
It keeps the same design, layout and structure, and the same special feature. Everything that is ours becomes yours: your name and logo, your brand colours, your photos, services, prices and contact details. Small changes, like borrowing a section from another design or leaving one out, are included in the fixed price.
Who can build a website for my vintage trailer restorer?
MigrateLab builds websites for vintage trailer restorer owners. Pick one of four finished designs at migratelab.com/examples/vintage-trailer-restoration-websites, send your logo, photos and details, and we rebuild it around your business for a fixed $1,520 to $2,320, live in 7 working days. You own the site, there is no platform subscription, and you can edit it yourself or have us look after it.
Can I get a vintage trailer restorer website without a monthly platform fee?
Yes. A MigrateLab site is yours outright and runs on your own hosting for a few dollars a month, instead of a $20 to $50 monthly builder plan. You pay a one-time $1,520 to $2,320 for the build, and a care plan at $63 a month is optional if you want us to make changes for you.
Are these real websites or just designs?
Real. Each concept is a complete, responsive website you can click through on any device. The businesses are fictional so you can see the design with realistic content, but the code and layout are exactly what you would receive.
Can owners get a rough restoration estimate online?
Yes. We build an estimator set to your restoration levels and prices: make, length and condition in, a price range and a timeline out, with photos attached to the enquiry.
I run everything from Instagram and word of mouth. Do I need a website?
Most restoration shops we talk to have been getting by on Facebook, Instagram and phone calls. That works until someone searches for you by name, asks an AI assistant for a recommendation, or wants to see prices and the wait before they get in touch. A site you own answers all of that, ranks in search, and does not disappear when a platform changes its rules.
What happens after I pick one?
You send your logo if you have one, photos, your builds and prices, and how people order today. We rebuild the site around your business and send a private preview within a week. One round of changes, then it goes live on your domain.
Will I be able to edit it myself?
Yes. Text, photos, prices, builds and availability are editable without touching code. Or pick the care plan and text or email us the change.
What does it cost per month?
Nothing to us unless you choose the care plan. Hosting under your own account is a few dollars a month. There is no platform subscription.
Get one of these built for you
Pick the design, leave your email, and we reply within one working day with a plan and a written confirmation of the price. Live in 7 working days from the day we have your basics.