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From restorations to auctions.
Byline: LARRY EDSALL
Rob Myers had a car long before he had a driver's license. Problem was the hand-me-down 1959 Edsel Corsair needed a lot of work.
"All rotted out,'' is how Myers remembers the car his father bought used and wore out by driving back and forth to his job as a maintenance man at a factory in Southern Ontario. Rob got the car when it was nine years old and he was 12 because "nobody would take an Edsel in trade.''
Myers' father challenged him to restore the car, and Myers went to work, learning while he was doing. By the time he got his license he had a decent daily driver, which he soon swapped for a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle.
"I guess that was the start of the wheeling and dealing,'' says Myers as he and his partners prepare to celebrate the 25th anniversary of RM Restorations and, by extension, of the better known but only 14-year-old RM Auctions.
The official celebration, including a 2000-vehicle show and a 125-car concours, took place July 16-18 at RM's 60,000-square-foot shop, its showroom (lower right) and in a city park in Blenheim, Ontario. Located about 60 miles east of the Detroit/Windsor, U.S./Canada border, Blenheim is the headquarters city for work that predated RM as Myers painted high-school friends' motorcycles or ...
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