RESTORATION
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A technician checks over some details on the Bugatti Aerolithe. When you’re recreating a one-of-a-kind vehicle, no detail is unimportant. Below: David Grainger, President and Founder of The Guild of Automotive Restorers. Grainger went into restoration after establishing a successful career as a wildlife artist. Photo by Joe Weicha.
Automotive
Archaeology By Mike Davey
David Grainger and the Guild dig deep to restore classic cars.
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here’s a lot of science and engineering wrapped up in restoring classic and antique cars, but don’t let that fool you. Anyone who does it is an artist. That’s doubly true for David Grainger. Grainger is the owner of The Guild of Automotive Restorers in Bradford, Ont., one of the largest antique and classic restoration companies in North America. The Guild has built a reputation with its customers through painstaking research and attention to detail, and with the general public through its appearances on the History Channel show Restoration Garage, not to mention numerous appearances in print and online publications. Grainger also writes a regular column, Reincarnation, for National Post.
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