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RESTORATION GARAGE’S DAVE GRAINGER TAKES US

                                                                                                                                          BEHIND SEASON 2’s ’29 DESOTO RAT ROD BUILD




















































                      ost everybody who’s into cars and owns a     million dollars. Also nestled together in one of the
                      television has at least heard of Velocity’s   rooms on this day were a 427 Cobra and a Maserati
                 M‘Restoration Garage’. For those who haven’t, the   Superleggera.
                 show follows the daily trials and tribulations of modern   Why is this important? Because Dave gets rat rods.
                 day Renaissance man Dave Grainger, whose shop, The   It’s noteworthy that somebody who is entrusted to
                 Automotive Guild, restores some of the most exclusive   restore some of the world’s most important vehicles
                 vehicles on the planet. To put into perspective what   to excruciating perfection can fi nd beauty in both a
                 they do, Dave could not store two of their latest   garage-built rat rod as well as something on the links
                 projects at The Guild at the same time, as the insured   at Pebble Beach. Dave illustrates this dichotomy as
                 value of the two cars combined was in excess of ten   follows: “There are rat rods that just arrest me, because



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