Rapid Hot Rods
Badlands Trading LLC is owned and operated by Jamie Ellenwood. Jamie is a Polson, Montana native and learned bodywork and paint as a young man.
He taught sheet metal fabrication , welding and custom paint at Wyo Tech for eight years. In 2008, he moved to Rapid City, SD to be the lead instructor at Hot Rod Institute. He taught chassis fabrication and welding for more than 7 years before going into full-time business for himself in 2015. He excels in metal fabrication, chassis design and paint and bodywork. Several of the cars he has built have won local and national awards.
05/19/2026
Two for Tuesday, 37 chevy sedan and 31 model A coupe
Making 37/38 chevy belt line, fine tuning the dies, we will be building a hood for this project, stay tuned!
05/08/2026
Radius flanges are easy with our flanger tool!
04/24/2026
She's smooth!
This little devices make the hood stay up...and keeps the back down when its closed..
02/22/2026
4 generations at the car show!
02/21/2026
knocked this paint job out of the park!
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5863 Saturn Drive
Rapid City, SD
57703
Opening Hours
| Monday | 8:30am - 12pm |
| 1pm - 4:30pm | |
| Tuesday | 8:30am - 12pm |
| 1pm - 4:30pm | |
| Wednesday | 8:30am - 12pm |
| 1pm - 4:30pm | |
| Thursday | 8:30am - 12pm |
| 1pm - 4:30pm | |
| Friday | 8:30am - 12pm |
| 1pm - 4:30pm |