Story by Preston Lerner • Photography as Credited
The collectible car world is a big tent filled with plenty of colorful characters. Collectors, obviously. Also restoration wizards, exotic car dealers, vintage car racers, prep shop owners and museum curators, to name a few.
Bruce Canepa is all of the above.
I remember watching Pikes Peak on ESPN2 back in the 90s and seeing the incredible sight of a big rig taking on those mountain curves. That was the first time I'd heard of Bruce Canepa. Over the past several years, I've seen a few videos and articles about the restorations his shop does, but I wasn't 100% sure it was the same Bruce Canepa until now. The one I remember is there was some prototype supercar built in the 80s that never really even worked right because it was the prototype, and they took it to Bruce to both restore and refine it to be a usable car. That was pretty impressive.
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