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Gladstone Auto Trim & Upholstery is a custom upholstery shop on North Oak Trafficway in Gladstone, Missouri, covering automotive, marine, motorcycle, commercial and — by the shop’s own claim — A&P-certified private-aircraft interiors.

Description

Gladstone Auto Trim occupies a shop at 6605 N. Oak Trafficway in Gladstone, an incorporated Clay County city on the Northland side of the Kansas City metro.1 First-party pages give the city as Gladstone, MO 64118. Third-party directories often re-label the same ZIP as Kansas City, MO 64118; the first-party city is Gladstone, and that is the address used here.12

The shop’s own home page frames the work as automotive upholstery and trim first — convertible tops, carpet, seats, and custom restoration — then marine repair for “sun bleached and cracked” boat seats, then large-scale commercial work for restaurants, medical offices and corporate offices.3 The services page expands that list into aircraft interiors, motorcycle seats and covers, restaurant and bar booths, and commercial seating for medical, dental, hotel and office settings.4

Two supply relationships sit on the About page and are dealer agreements, not ownership: the shop states it is an authorized dealer of Robbins Auto Tops and Katzkin Leather Interiors.5

The distinctive claim is aviation. The home page says “We are also A&P certified to work on private aircraft.” The services page repeats “Gladstone Auto Trim is A & P certified to work on airplanes and we can do OEM or custom work,” and lists custom aircraft interiors and aircraft-interior repairs as a named line.34 A&P here is the shop’s wording for an FAA airframe-and-powerplant mechanic certificate. Whether a current certificate is held, and in whose name, is “.

A first-party sidebar also carries a “Verified Vendor / US Federal Contractor Registration” badge.1 That is a paid listing service, not proof of a federal contract, and is not treated as one.

Ownership and history

The contact page names Jeff Riddle as the person to contact, with the shop email jeff@gladstoneautotrim.com and the shop phone (816) 468-4007.1 First-party pages do not use the word owner. Customer reviews on third-party listings refer to “Jeff and his team” / “Jeff and his folks” as the people doing the work.26 Legal ownership — LLC, sole proprietorship, or otherwise — is “. Missouri Secretary of State lookup was not available (Cloudflare challenge).

A Dun & Bradstreet directory listing for the same street address names a contact Jim Riddle and a founding year of 1989.7 The shop’s own home-page hero image is stored as jim22. Jeff and Jim are not merged here. They may be the same person, two people, or a directory error; none of those readings is evidenced well enough to pick.

Tenure claims conflict. None is converted into a founding year.

  • The shop’s own home page, in both the visible copy and the page schema description, says it has been “serving the Kansas City area for 30 years” / “for over 30 years.”3 WordPress schema on that page records datePublished 29 September 2009 and dateModified 27 February 2014, so the “30 years” line is frozen first-party copy, not a dated 2026 claim.
  • Yellow Pages lists the business as “31 Years in Business” on its Kansas City, MO directory page.8
  • A MapQuest listing, labelled as generated from web sources, says the shop has offered upholstery “for over 35 years.”9
  • The D&B directory cited above gives Founded 1989, which is a fourth figure and is not reconciled with 30 / 31 / 35+.7

All four are printed. None is picked.

Services

First-party, per the company site:354

  • Auto upholstery: convertible top and rear-window repair/replace, OEM replacement, seat repair, headliner, weather-strip, carpet
  • Aircraft upholstery: A&P-certified claim; custom interiors; interior repairs
  • Marine / boat: custom covers, seats, tops, deck replacement, custom marine upholstery
  • Motorcycle: custom seats, covers, restored seats
  • Restaurant and bar: custom booths, reupholstered booths and seats, barstool upholstery
  • Commercial: medical, dental, hotel/motel, office equipment and desk-chair upholstery
  • Authorized dealer, Robbins Auto Tops and Katzkin Leather Interiors

Sources

Footnotes

  1. “Contact,” Gladstone Auto Trim & Upholstery, accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. “Gladstone Auto Trim & Upholstery in Kansas City, MO,” Yahoo Local listing (reviews dated 10 April 2026 and 9 July 2026), accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩ ↩2

  3. “Kansas City Custom Auto Upholstery and Trim” (home), Gladstone Auto Trim & Upholstery, accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. “Kansas City Custom Upholstery Services,” Gladstone Auto Trim & Upholstery, accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. “About,” Gladstone Auto Trim & Upholstery, accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩ ↩2

  6. “Gladstone Auto Trim & Upholstery,” Yelp listing (updated March 2026), accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩

  7. “Gladstone Auto Trim — Kansas City, MO,” Dun & Bradstreet business-directory listing, accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩ ↩2

  8. “Gladstone Auto Trim & Upholstery,” Yellow Pages directory listing (Kansas City, MO), accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩

  9. “Gladstone Auto Trim & Upholstery, 6605 N Oak Trfy, Kansas City, MO 64118,” MapQuest listing (generated copy), accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩

See also

  • Registry
  • Owner-And-History-Research-Toolchain
Categories

On the record — ks.city/registry/gladstone-auto-trim-and-upholstery · record updated 2026-08-28