Gibson Auto & Electric

Kirsten Ulmer

6 months ago

Best vintage-friendly mechanics in PDX. They tackled my 1992 Toyota AC conversion (R12→R134) flawlessly and treated me great. Kind people, expert work—Gibson is the only shop I’ll use from now on.

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9 months ago

Great place, great people, excellent work! Don, the owner is a salt of the earth great guy. Wouldn't take my vehicle anywhere else. They know their stuff!

kreigor 2021

2 years ago

I have an '82 Toyota Pickup, and there's no other place I would trust to work on it! Always upfront and honest, and willing to answer questions. They've even taken extra time to pop the hood and walk through the work they've done, whenever I want a deeper explanation. Fantastic shop!

Quinn McCallum-Law

2 years ago

I was just staring at my 73 Jeep Commando thinking how fun of a rig it is to drive. Don and his crew have bought it up to a point that I could drive it to hell and back without worrying. Don’s shop is where you go when you want that extra attention paid to your vehicle. The kind of shop where it will get the same attention as you would give if you were doin it yourself. I’m a former mechanic who loves fixing up the old stuff, but… with no time, which begrudgingly led me to finding Gibson a few years ago and I couldn’t be happier. Are they cheap? No. You don’t go here for cheap, you go here for top quality work, service, and as they say, attitude. Worth every one of the millions of pennies I’ve given em over the last few years. It’s really the only shop around that I know, when I turn my keys over to them, my vehicles are coming back better than expected. Thanks Don and Crew.

Larry Lawson

2 years ago

Only because I can't give it zero... On Feb 22th, I called to schedule a time to have my car towed in for a good deal of work to be done. Don estimated about a couple months out. That’s normal, and I waited until I heard back. Sometime at the end of March he said to bring it in third week in April. April 25th it was towed in and rolled inside. I had conversations with Don as to the status every month, and was always told he was either waiting for employees to be available, or other cars that had been brought in before mine to be completed, etc., etc., etc. A different excuse every time. After four months I went in to see the status, and it was still sitting there with no work having been done on it at all. An employee even said that Don had refused to have any work done on the car. I had it towed back to my house the next morning. To the owner: If you obviously don’t want to work on a car, why have them bring it in anyway? Every visit I made there there had at least 3-4 cars I’d seen before not in the shop, and new ones in there on the next visit. Then they rotated out while mine sat. As I figure it, you owe me $500 for both tow services. I’ll leave it up to people reading this review to see whether they want to trust this kind of person who advertised: “At Gibson Auto & Electric, Inc. we are committed to you, our customer’s, satisfaction and we assure you the best possible automotive experience in the Portland area.” What a crock of $#!%. I had an entire and very substantial body and paint job done on this car that took 5-6 months. And you can’t even plumb and connect a fuel pump in four months? When you also advertise that “Attitude is everything!”, you do have at least that right.