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The People Who Keep Old Cars Alive Feature 20 Top Restorers The People Who Keep Old Cars Alive ost of us have bought — or owned — a great old car that needed some help. Perhaps it needed new body M panels, rust repair to the frame and an engine rebuild. Maybe it needed some light bodywork and new paint. Or in an extreme — but not especially rare — case it crashed and burned and needed an entire rebuild. Over the past few decades, a special breed of mechanics, technicians and historians have made it their life’s work to bring old cars back from the dead — or just keep them running. Without them, our world would be a lot rustier, noisier, more dangerous and, yes, sadder. SCM Publisher Keith Martin is no stranger to the restoration shop, and he came up with the notion of recognizing a few of the elite people in the restoration world. We reached out to SCM readers, and we got hundreds of nominations. The selection process was tough. Yet, like a good resto tech, we pressed on, and here are SCM’s Top 20. — Executive Editor Chester Allen Courtesy of The Creative Workshop 62 SportsSports Car Market Car Market Feature 20 Top Restorers Richard Barnes Ed Barr Company: Paul Russell and Company Company: McPherson College Location: Essex, MA Location: McPherson, KS Specialty: Automobile upholstery resto- Specialty: Sheet metal ration (coach trimmer). Years of experience: 13 Years of experience: 40. I grew up in Contact: [email protected] London, England, and was accepted into Most recent project: I recently helped the Rolls-Royce Apprenticeship training a group of students build an aluminum program in 1977, when I was 16. I com- MGB “Zagato” front clip with the classic pleted the four-year program and went three-bump hood. It looked unbelievable on to work for Hooper and Co., custom- and gave me a chance to immerse these izing Rolls-Royces and Bentleys for three students in the lore and techniques of years before moving to New Hampshire Italian coachbuilding. in 1984 to work for British Auto. Between Most challenging project: I am build- 1990 and 2006, I worked for different ing a full-size Jaguar D-type wood buck companies. I was also self-employed for convertible top, so a new solid oval rear that students will use as a guide in metal a while. In late 2006, I was asked to join window had to be made for the top and shaping. I feel like I have picked a fistfight the Paul Russell and Company team, and positioned exactly right to allow the top to with a gorilla. Unfortunately, making an I have been there for the past 11 years. fold. The car went on to win First in Class accurate sculpture of a car is exactly as Most recent project: I’m currently at Pebble Beach. challenging as one might expect. Hope- working on a late-1930s Bugatti, a late- Career high point: Joining the Paul fully, the gorilla will tire before I do. My 1950s BMW and an early-1960s Ferrari. Russell and Company team allowed me students are counting on it. Most challenging project: One to witness every aspect of restoration in Career high point: Getting random text particular car that comes to mind was a detail. After 30 years in the trade, this messages from current and former stu- 1938 Delahaye. Nothing about the car allowed me to complete my career at the dents showing me the amazing cars they interior or top resembled its original highest possible level. Another high point are restoring at their internships and jobs. configuration. A lot of research went into was last year, when I was asked to teach a My students are working on Mercedes- studying what that configuration should few classes in the automobile restoration Benzes, Bugattis, Ferraris, Aston Martins, be. I constructed new door panels and program at McPherson College in Kansas. and an O.S.C.A. reconfigured the seats. The car came in It was the first time a tradesperson had with a full-size plastic rear window in the been invited to teach classes there. October 20172018 63 Feature 20 Top Restorers Mariah Bruins Hershel “Junior” Conway Company: MRestoration Design LLC Company: Junior’s House of Color Location: St. Louis, MO Location: Bell Gardens, CA Specialties: Preservation/paint Specialties: High-end custom paint and Years of experience: Seven restoration, along with metal finish and Contact: 785.447.0487 lead bodywork. Most recent project: Rolls-Royce Silver Years of experience: 65 Cloud and Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II Contact: 562.928.6393 preservation. I’m also doing full paint and Recent projects: 1967 Ferrari 275 GTS, assembly for 1933 Auburn 12 Boattail 1957 Ford Thunderbird, 1972 Porsche Speedster and full collection preservation 911, 1936 Fiat Topolino, 1974 Ferrari for Hunter Classics (150-plus cars). 246 Dino. Most challenging project: The Rolls- Most challenging project: 1940 Royce Silver Cloud II. Silver Clouds are Mercedes-Benz 770 Grosser bulletproof custom coachbuilt cars. Parts are expen- car for William Lyon. sive and becoming hard to find. This Career high point: I’m still working 10 car had original lacquer paint and was Career high point: The Rolls-Royce hours a day, six days a week. found as a barn find. The overall goal Silver Cloud II that won a preservation was to keep it as original as possible award at the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club while servicing the mechanics and re- National Meet (with credit to Zenith Motor freshing any interior that was damaged. Company LLC, Kansas City, MO). Giovanni D’Avola Company: Autosprint Ltd. Location: Chicago, IL Specialties: Mechanical restoration (engine, transmission, brakes and suspension). Years of experience: 45 Contact: 773.685.0930; info@auto- sprintchicago.com Most recent project: A complete en- gine and transmission restoration for a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTE. Most challenging project: It was a 1964 Ferrari 365 2+2 that had been in several shops and had sat for years. It came to me in boxes. Parts were missing, and it took a long time to sort through and research the project. Career high point: When I bought Autosprint and when I was asked to come out to California and participate in a project on “Monster Garage.” 64 SportsSports Car Market Car Market Feature 20 Top Restorers Bob DiFrancesco Ken Downes Company: Leydon Restorations Company: European and American Location: Hatfield, PA Auto Upholstery Specialties: Machinist, fabricator, Location: San Rafael, CA welder, engine machining/rebuilding, Specialties: Ken Downes is the founder body and paint of European and American Auto Up- Years of experience: 40 holstery, which specializes in interior Most recent project: I’m currently restoration of vintage European and working on rebuilding a Type 57 Bu- American automobiles. gatti engine, which came to us in bro- His restoration projects include cars ken bits and pieces —as they usually made in England, Germany, Italy and do. Many components were missing, France. therefore requiring machining of new Ken’s craftsmanship also includes parts and welding repairs. There are a modern and contemporary cars, using lot of challenges, as these engines are his expertise for custom convertible-top old, have been through a lot of hands installation, leather interiors and an Contact: 415.459.0353 and we have to deal with Bugatti’s engine components, laying out a grid assortment of other interior and exte- Most recent project: A complete inte- “interesting” way of doing things. pattern of 3/8-inch squares with a marker rior restoration components. His deep rior restoration of a 1971 Mercedes-Benz Most challenging project: I have and then using a hand-scraping tool — knowledge and skills are far-reaching. 280SL, using original materials. had many challenging jobs over the it resembles a large chisel — to strike He has a fine-tuned eye for the integrity Most challenging projects: Interior years, from rebuilding 110-year-old two marks in each box, perpendicular to of classic and rare automobiles and he and top restorations of Mercedes-Benz steam engines to rebuilding blown-up one another to create a decorative pat- honors the aesthetics that make them 300SL Gullwings, Mercedes-Benz 300SL incomplete motors and transmissions, tern, thousands of times over. One slip, collectible and unique. Roadsters and Aston Martin DB4 and so it’s hard to pick one. I would say that and you’re starting over. He has the artistic ability to transform DB5 cars. Bugatti engine hand-scraping requires Career high point: Having had the raw materials — such as canvas, wool- Career high point: Ken is an Instructor the most focus and mental concentra- pleasure of restoring a classic car for each blend carpets and European leather of at the Academy of Art University in San tion. It’s a process which involves one of my three children — and seeing the the highest grade — into a finished Francisco, where he teaches Vintage smoothing all the aluminum topside enjoyment they get from them. product. His finishing includes stretching Vehicle Upholstery Restoration in the and forming leather on a dash, steering Industrial Design Department and men- wheel or seats. tors and inspires his students to become Years of experience: Over 30 superior auto upholsterers. Kevin J. Mackay Chris McCune Company: Corvette Repair Inc. Company: D.L. Location: Valley Stream, NY George Historic Specialty: Corvette restoration and Motorcars, Cochran- repair ville, PA Years of experience: 33 Location: Cochran- Contact: 516.568.1959; www.corvet- ville, PA terepair.com Specialties: Metal Most recent project: The 1956 Corvette shaping, fabrication, SR-2. One of only two high-finned Cor- paint and bodywork. vettes ever built. Years of expe- Most challenging project: The 1963 rience: 38.
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