


(Source: Netflix)įluttering in and out of the episodes like moths are fellow shop workers, neighboring mechanics, and townspeople, but the centrifugal force is Mike, around whom Avery and Connor revolve. Mike Hall, Connor Hall, and Avery Shoaf at Rust Bros Restoration. Danny Devito-esque man with Einstein hair. Avery Shoaf, late 50’s, Mike’s best friend and a mechanic extraordinaire at the shop.Clean-cut and perpetually the brunt of his father’s poor business decisions. Connor Hall, his 30-ish son, mechanic at the shop.He unintentionally thwarts business with an ideal of how the cars should look before he can sell them and who they should be adopted by. He’s much too attached to his cars to turn a profit with his shop. Sporting bedraggled grey dreadlocks, he’s always dressed in a black muscle tank, dirty pants, and ill-fitting glasses. Mike Hall, 62, the shop and car collection owner.There are three main characters on Rust Valley Restorers: The air is dry and it preserves them, so it’s become the center of this amazing classic car culture.” Over the past 40 years, Mike has accumulated more than 400 cars, most of which hunker like dozing bulls in a grass field. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of classic cars waiting to be restored. Mike Hall, the shop owner, explains that, “We call it Rust Valley. The show takes place “in the remote interior of British Columbia, somewhere between the desert and the Rocky Mountains,” as the narrator describes. Rusty skies over “Rust Valley” in British Columbia, a hub of classic car culture. So he opens a restoration shop - Rust Bros Restorations - to catalyze the automotive revivals and bring in money. It showcases a grungy old guy who owns lots of classic cars that need some serious restoring, but he’s running out of time and money to fix them all. Recently released on Netflix after originally airing on Canada’s History Channel, Rust Valley Restorers (August 2019) fits right into the ubiquitous car fixer-upper reality genre.

A POET’S ANALYSIS OF THE CAR RESTORATION REALITY SHOW SET IN TAPPEN, BC
