OUR HISTORY

In 1960, Burton Waldron began manufacturing exhaust systems for vintage cars and trucks in Nottawa, Michigan. Over the years, Burt procured "patterns" for exhaust pipes, Y pipes, H pipes, mufflers and tailpipes from a number of sources. He purchased old stock inventory from other manufacturers like IPC and Walker, dealer inventories from muffler shops and distributors, "take-offs" from customer vehicles and hundreds of new and used components from the swap meets and shows he attended over the years. Today, that storehouse of physical patterns - over 2000 of them! - allows us to manufacture and VERIFY the fit of virtually every piece we manufacture. Since the company was founded, we have served over 40,000 vintage car owners, restorers and exhaust installers!

Recently Burt and Mary Waldron began planning for retirement. In September 2006 Joe Tonietto purchased the company from Burt. Joe has over 30 years of Manufacturing and Engineering experience in the auto industry. Joe brings a wealth of hands-on 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. Joe has owned and restored several cars over the past 35 years ranging from a 1957 Corvette to a 1976 Eldorado. Joe knows first hand how difficult it can be to find reasonably priced parts through swap meets, junk yards, eBay and catalog hunts. Burt and Mary will work with Joe and Jon, who has been with Waldron’s for over 8 years, to combine Burts knowledge, Joes business skills and love of vintage vehicles with Jon’s manufacturing talents to continually improve Waldron’s products and processes. Our pledge is to better serve the vintage vehicle market by making our products more widely available through our web store while maintaining and improving our high quality standards and low costs.

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.

From Auburn to Zephyr, from 1909 to 1980, we can provide you with a duplicate of your original, factory exhaust system for nearly every domestically produced passenger car or light truck built during this period. In most cases, we can also help you with "updates", including low-restriction muffler designs 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.

Over the years, our product line has expanded to include a variety of muffler and pipe alternatives. Most mufflers are manufactured using long-lasting aluminized steel, but we also offer stainless steel mufflers. In addition to aluminized steel pipes, we offer Type 409 stainless steel pipes for nearly every application. And of course, we have thousands of new old stock pipes and mufflers for a wide variety of applications that were manufactured from normal carbon steel or galvanized steel.

For the traditional hot rod sound, we have introduced a line of glasspacks in 18", 24" and 30" body lengths that represent a budget-conscious approach to performance mufflers. They sound great and wont break down in a few months like some of the products that have been available in the past.

Today, our products also include 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. We love to talk directly with our customers; we know how proud you are of your vehicles and we would love to talk to you about what we can do for your latest project!