“Some of my cars I may never restore, but being able to look at them means something.” “If that one had sold, I wasn’t selling all the cars, I had 10 or 15 squirreled away.”Ī non-car-person might reasonably wonder why. Whether Corus determines Rust Valley Restorers will continue into a second season, whether a buyer comes out of nowhere with $1.45 million for the cars and acreage, whatever turn the road should take, Hall’s connections with his personal favorites will not be broken.
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Because some took longer than projected, the series covers 14 restorations. “A 1941 Power Wagon later in the series, he puts together in a week.”Įach episode was to feature one car selected from Hall’s wrecks, another a client’s. “I call Avery the Muscle Car Moron but he’s unreal working on a car,” Hall says. All this, in the first episode.Īvery Shoaf is Hall’s business partner, sidekick, foil. He’s disdainful of dad paying $2,000 for a metal-forming brake when cash is short, then bullies dad into selling parts at a swap meet for some positive cash flow. “My dad has put us in a bind,” he says of the projected six to eight weeks to complete the Continental. His son, Connor Hall, plays stern comptroller. “This shop just about killed me,” he says, putting its cost at somewhere between $200,00 and $300,000.įrom left, Avery Shoaf, Mike Hall and Connor Hall. The $10,000 will allow him to meet payrolls, he intimates on camera, with the restoration business just under way and no money coming in. In the series premiere, in December, Hall fancied painting a Dodge Swinger pink agreed to restore a 1966 Lincoln Continental for $15,000, hugely underestimating the labour involved and sold his gorgeous Chevelle SS 396 at a swap meet for $10,000 and some engines and transmissions, after hoping for $25,000. But will the business survive Hall’s dubious decisions? The series premise has Hall’s new business, Rust Bros Restorations, working magic on wrecks selected from his acreage and on cars owned by area enthusiasts. Canadian Hot Rods Inc., also is in Tappen, while Vern’s Custom Auto operates in Salmon Arm. The White Post Auto Museum and Antiques Mall is just along the Trans-Canada from Hall’s shop. Hepburn’s pitch video earned backing from Corus Entertainment for the eight-part series featuring Hall and celebrating the car culture of the Shuswap communities east of Kamloops, dubbed Rust Valley in the show (it resumes Jan 17, 10 p.m.). In it, the Rasta Blasta was called in to blow up rogue boulders. Tyson Hepburn and Matt Shewchuk, of Vancouver-based Mayhem Entertainment, knew Hall from a guest appearance he’d made on Highway Thru Hell, a Discovery Canada show Shewchuk directed. The story went viral, and Hall found himself fielding calls from collectors as far away as Finland and from video producers who proposed documentaries on the wild man with a soft spot for car cadavers. Yet by raising the price to $1.45-million in 2017, he opened another door. So the Rasta Blasta tried offering both cars and property for $1.19-million in 2016. What are my wife and kids going to do with 400 cars in a field?” “I’ve seen buddies dying or running into health problems, leaving their families with all kinds of stuff to deal with.
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“I’ll be 62 soon, my dad died at 60,” he says. For more information, visit Īlyn Edwards is a classic car enthusiast and partner in Peak Communicators, a Vancouver-based public relations company.One day he got to thinking: If he were to restore even 10 cars a year, he’d need to live to 102. Rust Valley Restorers Mike Hall and sidekick Avery Shoaf will be at the 14th annual Electric Garage auction in Red Deer on September 11 to promote the upcoming sale of the 500 Field of Dreams collector vehicles. But we know it will draw a lot of interest.” “It really is taking us out of our comfort zone because the auction team will have to move from car to car. “It is the most challenging auction we have ever planned because the cars are in the Field of Dreams and can’t be moved,” says EG Auctions CEO Todd Schwindt. EG Auctions, also known as The Electric Garage, has 7,000 registered online bidders.
OKĪll 500 vehicles are being sold with no reserve bid so each one will go to the highest bidder.
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