Carl Heideman, owner, founded Eclectic Motorworks 25+ years ago with a vision to offer high-quality work and project management while engaging customers to offer an experience that offers the most enjoyment possible from their classic car.

Carl has over 40 years experience in service and restoration of a huge variety of cars. He has expertise in tuning, with thousands of dyno pulls putting numbers to the work. He’s very experienced in body repair, welding, and metalwork and has taken fabrication courses from Fay Butler, Ron Fournier, and Ron Covell. Eclectic Motorworks has hosted Ron Covell’s and Fay Butler’s travelling workshops many times over the years.

In addition to offering seminars at Eclectic Motorworks, Carl has taught seminars at University Motors, Steve’s Antique Auto Repair, the Carlisle Import/Kit Nationals, and many British car events around the country.

Carl has written technical articles for several automotive magazines, including British Car, Classic Motorsports, Grassroots Motorsports, North American Classic MG, Hagerty Drivers Club, and VW Trends.

Alan Dalman is the manager at Eclectic Motorworks. With BAs in Business Administration and Economics from Hope College, he handles all of the office duties, parts sales and even gives shop tours. Alan’s daily drivers from March thru November include a 1973 MGB/GT that sees more miles in one season than most cars see in 10. It has been featured in several articles in Classic Motorsports Magazine. His other projects include a 1930 Model A Ford Fordor, a 1971 Honda CB350 motorcycle, and most recently a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle.

Brent Vanderbie is Eclectic Motorworks main mechanic. After serving in the United States Air Force maintaining front-line aircraft Brent decided to dedicate his time to more-earthbound pursuits. Before joining Eclectic, Brent worked in Kalamazoo, MI and Holland, MI servicing imports of all makes. Brent owned and drove a Triumph Spitfire while in the Air Force stationed in the UK and currently owns a 1958 Volkswagen Beetle.

Doug Wehmeyer recently retired from many years of service at Hope College and offered us his services as a part-time custodian and maintenance man at the shop. Doug has very nice 1980 MGB that was recently supercharged, along with a beautiful C7 Corvette.

Owen Rogers is our newest addition to the Eclectic staff. He previously worked for his grandfather, Bill Wiswedel, at his machine shop – Olive Engineering – in West Olive, MI. Owen works beside Brent, Carl, and Alan as a mechanic and welder/fabricator. Owen currently has a tricked-out Mazda RX8 that he autocrosses and a heavily-modified Honda Trail 70 minibike.