OUR HISTORY

Founded in 1960, Waldron’s Antique Exhaust has served over 40,000 vintage car owners, restorers and exhaust installers! Our products are sold both by Waldron’s through our web store and via telephone as well as several national catalogs, other web stores, whole sellers and retailers. Waldron’s Antique Exhaust has a global customer base. Currently, we are one of Michigan’s fastest growing small businesses.

In September 2006 Joe Tonietto purchased the company from the founder Burt Waldron. Joe has over 30 years of Manufacturing and Engineering experience in the auto industry and brings significant tooling and process skills to Waldron’s. He is a long time auto enthusiast, currently restoring a 1968 GTO that will share garage space with his 1969 Firebird and 1971 GTO – at least until the next project car follows him home! Joe has installed Waldron’s DCE™ and VOE-2™ mufflers (Driver Controlled Exhaust) on both GTOs, the Firebird and his daily driver, a 2008 GMC Sierra and greatly enjoys driving them. Joe has owned and restored several cars over the past 35 years ranging from a 1957 Corvette to a 1976 El Dorado, and he knows first hand how difficult it can be to find quality parts at reasonable prices. Joe will continue to add new and unique offerings to the product line-up while maintaining Waldron’s high quality and historically competitive prices.

Since 2006, Waldron’s has added the web store and eBAY sales. Waldron’s began advertising in Hemmings Motor News in 1965 and is one of Hemmings’ oldest continuous advertisers! Waldron’s advertises in a number of magazines and web pages. We are especially proud of the various car club pages that reference us or have links to our web page. Waldron’s expanded the product line-up through the 1980’s as those products are now considered “antiques.”

In the spring of 2007, Waldron’s Antique Exhaust caught the eye of Jay Leno’s Big Dog Garage through our Hemmings Motor News advertisement. Waldron’s made a stainless steel exhaust system for Jay Leno’s 1951 Hudson Hornet. Jay Leno personally called the shop and invited Waldron’s out to do a web video to be featured on Jay Leno’s Garage web site. See the link on the Waldron’s home page.

Waldron’s Antique Exhaust has been contacted by people asking us to recreate products that have been unavailable for many years. These products include the award winning DCE™ and VOE-2™ mufflers (Driver Controlled Exhaust), the Mustang High Performance “K” code Arvinode mufflers, the Corvette Off Road Mufflers option code N11, the 66-67 Ford 7L Dual Exhaust System and the 60-61 Dodge/Plymouth/DeSoto Ram Induction Dual Exhaust System. See the links on our home page for more details. We are grateful to the help and support we have received from the customers who provided parts and drawings.

Waldron’s products have been getting great press. Recent magazines with a article about Waldron’s products include MuscleCar Enthusiast, Pontiac Enthusiast, Rod & Custom Magazine and HOTROD & Restoration. Our owner, Joe Tonietto was on the speaker panel at the 2008 GTOAA International Meet at Saratoga Springs, New York.

In the summer 2008, Waldron’s relocated to a renovated 1920’s era manufacturing building that was originally a Ford Dealership at 208 West Main Street in Centreville, Michigan. We have moved all of our patterns for pipes and mufflers, weld fixtures and NOS. Those patterns – THOUSANDS of parts - together with our late-model dimensional database, allow us to manufacture components to fit most domestic cars and trucks built from 1909 through the 1980’s.

With the move behind us, we are realizing the benefits of more space. Waldron’s remains committed to being the preferred source for “Complete Exhaust Systems, Mufflers, Resonators, Pipes & Custom-Built Mufflers for Cars & Trucks: 1909—1980’s”. Joe Tonietto and the team at Waldron’s continue to implement lean / synchronous manufacturing processes to guarantee that you receive a quality system in a timely manner at a competitive price.

Our founder, Burt Waldron is currently enjoying retirement in Michigan with his wife and family. Burt began manufacturing exhaust systems for vintage cars and trucks in Nottawa, Michigan in 1960. He procured "patterns" for exhaust pipes, Y pipes, H pipes, mufflers and tailpipes from a number of sources including "take-offs" from customer vehicles and swap meets. He purchased old stock inventory from other manufacturers, dealer inventories from muffler shops and distributors. During this time, Waldron’s primary sales avenue was swap meets. Customers began calling the shop to place new orders and giving referrals to friends. We are grateful to Burt for the excellent business reputation he provided and wish him and his wife a long and happy retirement.

About our products
When you order an exhaust system from Waldron’s we verify your vehicle information and confirm the appropriate exhaust configuration for your application. We use the “patterns” to verify that the parts we manufacture are accurate reproductions of the original equipment.

We can provide a duplicate of the original, factory exhaust system for nearly every domestically produced passenger car or light truck built between 1909 and 1989. In most cases, we can also provide kits to convert from single to dual exhaust systems and IMPOSTOR™ low-restriction mufflers that can enhance sound and performance while maintaining original, stock appearance. When you order a complete system from us, we verify all interfaces (pipe to manifold, pipe to muffler, etc) to ensure your system fits together as designed. We can also provide “oversize” pipes for many vehicles; please call us to discuss oversize requirements.

Our standard pipes and mufflers are manufactured using long-lasting aluminized steel. We also offer T409 stainless steel pipes and mufflers for nearly every application. We also have thousands of “new old stock” (NOS) pipes and mufflers that are made of carbon steel or galvanized steel.

For the traditional hot rod sound, we offer Glasspacks in 9” to 48” lengths that represent a budget-conscious approach to performance mufflers. They sound great and won't break down in a few months like some of the products that have been available in the past.

We also supply high-quality reproductions of discontinued items like transverse dual exhaust mufflers for mid-60's GM vehicles, one-piece Ford Model A systems and complete packages for hard-to-find exhaust systems like those under Ford “retractables” or early classics like Packard, Auburn, Pierce and Marmon. Feel free to order directly from our website at www.waldronexhaust.com or call us TOLL FREE at (800) 503-9428. Give us a call; we know how proud you are of your vehicles and we would be happy to talk to you about what we can do for your latest project!

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