A restoration shop run by a group of car-crazy Canadians acquires a valley containing more than 400 rusted classics, so what happens? For the most part, it’s all good fun, but there’s also a fair amount of violence.
In the HISTORY Canada docuseries Rust Valley Restorers, a camera crew follows Mike Hall and his team as they take on their valley of rust buckets one by one, restoring them to their former glory or upgrading them before selling them. Rust Bros Restorations is owned by Hall and is located in British Columbia.
Season 3 Episode 3 saw Hall’s team restore and modify a yellow 1957 GMC Sierra that needed some TLC in a sea of rusted-out vehicles. AutoHunter, the premier online auction platform driven by ClassicCars.com, is auctioning this truck in all its ghost-flame, suicide-door glory.
On HISTORY Canada’s website, you can watch the episode. Netflix has the show available to non-Canadians.
During their search for a non-Ford 18th birthday present, a young woman and her father came across the 1957 GMC Sierra and fell in love with it.
Even though this yellow GMC was the clear winner, it required some work and a new paint job, both of which the buyer and his daughter had specifically requested.
During the process of repairing the truck, Hall discovers that the original engine isn’t running as smoothly as they had hoped.
Shoaf described the engine as “sounding like a screw in a peanut butter can.” The new Chevy 327/300 horsepower engine was installed by Hall, along with his son and fellow mechanic Connor Hall.
This request was made as work on the truck progressed by the buyer, who requested that Hall and his team install suicide door replacements.
What a neat feature. This is something you wouldn’t expect to see and it gives the truck a smooth appearance,” Mike Hall recently told the Journal.
The truck also received a custom interior and console, a new automatic transmission, and a new paint job in Snapper Blue with ghost flames on the front clip during the restoration.
Oakwood bed, hidden tailgate latches, black-out treatment on the grille, panoramic windshield, tilted headlamps, and a unique 89-inch box are some of the features of the vehicle’s bodywork.
Hall’s team added wiring to the truck to prevent the suicide doors from opening while the vehicle is in motion.
After the truck had been built, the buyer, his daughter, and the rest of their family were unable to purchase it because of the impact of Covid.
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For that outside of Canada, you can watch Rust Valley Restorations on Netflix or STACKTV to see how Hall and his team restore a variety of other old rusted vehicles.
Auction dates are June 4-11 for the GMC Sierra. There’s a lot of information about the auction on the truck’s AutoHunter page.
