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    Sound Your Horn

    Mar 15, 2021 5 minutes

    Why restorers are hard to find

    I just read Angelo Van Bogart’s editorial in the Feb. 15 issue of Old Cars and I couldn’t agree more that the old car hobby has a real problem with the retirement of professional restorers. I, myself, was in the restoration business until I retired in 2019. Unfortunately, I believe his hope that restoration education of young people will solve the problem is misplaced.

    I came of age in the ’60s during the apex of automobile design, at least in the United States, and had the opportunity to enjoy those cars. My mom was the first female car salesman in the state of Oregon and I have fond memories of riding in her Pontiac Grand Prix and GTO demo cars, as well as learning to wrench

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