| So many of our customer / friends
have asked me how on earth did a South African (who speaks so
strange) get into the Model “A” business here in
the States with so much competition. Let me try and make this
as painless as possible.
I brought my first Model “A” 1929 Right Hand
Drive Phaeton in 1972, where my cousin, who did most of the
work whilst I became an excited and very interested onlooker.
With the help of a number of so called business trips to the
U.S.A. to find parts, and many arguments with the South African
customs, we finally had a best of show Phaeton.
During 1985 we decided to immigrate to the U.S.A. and after
5 years of bureaucratic paper work we finally arrived in Atlanta
in August 1990. Within a short period of time, I met Mr. Marion
Buice who was about to start a full restoration on his Leatherback
Victoria.
Sadly for Marion he fell off of his roof whilst doing some
repair work and broke his hip - this gave me the opportunity
to restore his “Vicky” - some of you may remember
this car - it was amongst the five cars that were featured
on our 1999 Catalog that I have restored in the past few years.
This Vicky has been sold twice recently, and is still winning
1st Prize at all the local shows.
Our 10th Anniversary was in 2002 and we are still going
strong. The staff here now consists of me, my wife Kay, two
of my daughters (Angela and Kelly), my son-in-law Erich (Kelly’s
Husband), and a family friend named Brett. Together our goal
is to create an environment were it is a pleasure to be with
family all day and giving our “A” customers with
the friendliest service possible.
At the beginning of 2004 we moved to our
new and improved shop and we are getting settled in nicely. Our Grand Opening
was June 5th 2004 and between us and the Georgia Chapter
of the MACFA we called it Grandfather’s Day. A wonderful
day was had by all and 103 Model “A” arrived
to visit and tour our new premises |