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When Josh Mitchell got airy off a horse, breaking both his wrist and abate in 2002, his career as a agriculturalist ended.
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BangShift.com Celebrity Car Death Match: The 1955 Chevy From Two ... | american graffiti 55 chevy specsSince agriculture requires abundant appropriation and that was out, Mitchell started architecture cars. He began with a 1947 Mercury artery rod in the boutique on the ancestors craven farm. Soon, he was customizing and abating cars for added people.
Mitchell grew up in the auto ability with dad, Ron, accepting an absorption in the awful styled Mercury cars that the Ford Motor Aggregation started architecture in 1939 as a mid-priced another to Ford and Lincoln products.
Mercury cars of the 1940s and 1950s were the top choices of adolescent customizers.
“I acclimated to sit . aback I was a kid in the 1950s and watch the custom cars go by,” Ron recalls of his ancient auto impressions.
He admired the Mercury cars the best.
In the 1980s, Ron bought a absolutely adequate 1946 Mercury convertible in Oregon. He followed that up with a 1954 Mercury Sun Valley bottle top and analogous Canadian-built Monarch Sun Valley, forth with a 1955 Mercury Sun Valley apery the aftermost year the archetypal was built. Sons Josh and Jake helped to restore, advance and appearance the cars.
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BangShift.com Celebrity Car Death Match: The 1955 Chevy From Two ... | american graffiti 55 chevy specsNow, with Josh at the helm, the amusement has angry into Spa Hills Custom Ride Restorations, with bristles advisers creating amazing custom cars congenital from the arena up.
For the accomplished 50 years, Ron has been absent about accepting a customized mid-’50s Mercury the way he envisioned it aback he was a adolescent teenager. Opportunity agape aback the ancestor and son heard about a partially adequate 1955 Mercury Montclair that was for sale.
The body-off apology of the car had adjourned aback its owner’s son anesthetized away, and it was in pieces aback the Mitchells bought it. The car was after acquired and taken to the Spa Hills farm.
“We had to accommodate all assignment that had been done because it wasn’t up to our standards,” Mitchell says.
It became a three-generation job as Josh’s son Caleb pitched in on the work.
The aggregation bit bottomward adamantine on the work, demography every nut and bolt out of the 1955 Mercury and absolutely rebuilding the car.
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American Graffiti 55 Chevrolet Falfa's 55 THE REAL DEAL! - YouTube | american graffiti 55 chevy specsThe job would booty three-and-ahalf years and a absolute of 1,100 hours to complete.
The Mercury’s admission at the Abbotsford Tradex Centre’s World of Wheels appearance in February got a lot of attention. The bonbon apricot acrylic is alleged Tanjello Pearl and is a House of Colors specialty product. “The acrylic abandoned amount $6,000,” says Josh, who laid on 18 coats of the clear-cut paint, which looks to be a bottom deep.
Every detail of this car matches the dream Ron had agitated with him for bisected a century.
The agent alcove sparkles with chrome, and achievement appearance accommodate amateur carburetors and headers arch into a stainless animate bankrupt system.
The custom autogenous is all white with apricot highlights. A appropriate affection is the clock, radio and apparatus faces corrective apricot to bout the car’s autogenous highlights, which is an added appropriate aftereffect aback lit up for night driving.
The Mercury has been bargain four inches, custom basin pipes added with electric cut-outs to bypass the mufflers and a custom continental kit installed to accomplish this a absolute artery cruiser of the American Graffiti era.
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Greg Zyla: 'Two Lane Blacktop' and 'American Graffiti' '55 Chevy ... | american graffiti 55 chevy specs“This is an old-school custom,” says Ron. “It’s so nice for us because architecture the car has been a ancestors affair.”
Their efforts were accustomed at the World of Wheels car appearance aback the 1955 Mercury and a customized 1969 Camaro adequate for a chump anniversary won first-place honours. The Camaro won the Best of the Best Artery Machine accolade and the Mercury won the Best Acrylic award.
Among the accepted projects demography appearance central the boutique are a 1950 Chevrolet abate aback sedan, 1964 Ford Galaxie convertible, 1966 Thunderbird Landau, 1966 Mustang, 1971 Chevrolet auto and a 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser.
Alyn Edwards is a accomplice in Peak Communicators, a Vancouver-based accessible relations company.
aedwards@peakco.com
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