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David Grainger is the main character on the hit TV series Restoration Garage which is seen around the world on various channels and specifically Motor Trend and Velocity in the US and Canada (the show is named Guild Garage in Canada on Velocity). The show is just airing its 5th season and its popularity looks like it could translate to a sixth. He has been a columnist with the National Post and the Globe and Mail. Both newspapers are prestigious national financial dailies. He has also been a regular contributor with many other publications, both Canadian, British, and US. Grainger is the President and co-founder of The Guild of Automotive Restorers, one of the larger classic and antique car restoration companies in North America. David counts amongst his international client base individuals ranging from film and television stars to captains of industry and famous financiers and of course, the beating heart of the classic car world, just plain old car nuts. He premiered a Bugatti he built in Kuwait at the request of His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Saba. That car went on to win International Historical Car of the Year 2013 at a very special awards show in London England. Currently, he is working on restoring vehicles ranging from old Ford pickup trucks to lavish vintage Ferraris. His day-to-day duties still require him to spend a lot of time on the shop floor where the Guild is restoring, servicing and maintaining up to fifty cars at a time. Along with his duties at the Guild of Automotive Restorers David is currently involved in launching a multi-faceted media company. Current projects there involve producing a YouTube Station called Guilds Classics, an ongoing series of Podcasts and in developing several new TV shows.

Early Life
Grainger started writing in the 1970s where his columns dealt with wildlife and the environment. He wrote for papers in the Kitchener and Waterloo area including the Kitchener Waterloo Record and he was a well-known Wildlife Artist with many successful one-man shows to his credit. His works still hang in corporate and private collections to this day. He also worked for Zoos and wildlife sanctuary’s and founded and operated his own sanctuary specializing in injured birds. In the late seventies, he wrote his first book, Animals in Peril a chronicle of endangered species in North America. It did quite well with sales of over 5000 in Canada and over 35,000 copies in the United States. It was published by Pagurian Press and distributed in the United States by Dutton. Grainger also illustrated Wildlife for numerous magazines and other publications and worked with Ian Ballantine of Ballantine books on a special project in the early eighties. In the 1980s and early 90s, Grainger turned to work in the film and television industry where he specialized in special effects and gradually made his way into scriptwriting and producing. His founding of the Guild Of Automotive Restores in the mid-nineties gave rise to a company that is known and, respected around the world and has turned out everything ranging from magnificently restored brass era cars from the early 1900s to custom designed 500,000 dollar Hot Rods.

Career Accomplishments
Grainger is well known as a designer of what the industry calls High Buck Hot Rods and he designs on average one a year for clients internationally. Recently he had the honor of restoring the Alfa Romeo that appeared in the 1946 Paris Salon and established Batista (Pinin) Farina as a major designer and helped establish, post-war, the world acclaimed Pinin Farina design house. Grainger and the Alpha 6c 2500 Speciale were guests of the Pinin Farina 85th anniversary celebrations held in Turin, Italy. Grainger also completed a 26 part television show in which he restored on camera the famous George Barris Supervan and that show ran repeatedly for over two years on Speed in the US. The Bugatti Aerolithe was also one of Grainger’s career landmarks with the car winning numerous awards internationally. The original Aerolithe was built in Alsace, France but was lost to the pages of history until The Guild of Automotive Restores took on the heroic task of building the Aerolithe from only a handful of original Bugatti parts. The Aerolithe started with the oldest known Bugatti chases in existence, serial number 57104 and over the course of a few years after an insurmountable amount of work the project was completed. Today, the Aerolithe currently is on display at The Guild of Automotive Restores located in Bradford, Ont. Canada. Grainger has also made many television appearances over the years and was involved in a special one-hour documentary filmed at The Concours D’Elegance in Pebble Beach California.

Current Life
Grainger lives on a 35-acre farm in the rolling highlands northwest of Toronto, Ontario with his partner Janice Stone who share the land with seven draft horses, three donkeys, a very stubborn mule, large Irish Wolfhounds, a few Great Danes and a collection of exotic cars. As if that is not enough to do, Grainger is also an enthusiastic War Bird pilot and owns two World War 2 aircraft and he is often seen winging over the countryside in his open cockpit Meyers OTW biplane white scarf, goggles and all.

Grainger’s Other Accomplishments

 * Wildlife artist once nominated to the Royal Canadian Academy.
 * Commercial Diver
 * Reptile handler including poisonous snakes up to and including King Cobras
 * Zookeeper- wolves, elephants, giraffe, assorted monkeys, rhino and more
 * Professional aquarist (salt water) and designer of several salt water filtration systems
 * Wildlife handler and animal sanctuary owner
 * Big cat trainer
 * Falconer
 * Environmental activist (starting long before it was trendy)

The Guild Of Automotive Restorers
Established in 1991 by David Grainger and Janice Stone the Guild of Automotive Restorers is a world-renowned facility involved with the repair, restoration, and sales of classic and antique cars. It is also the home of the world broadcast television series Restoration Garage, now in its 5th season. The Guild has been featured on various other TV shows, on radio and in print. Jay Leno also featured The Guild's work on Leno's Garage. In 2013, The Guild's Bugatti Aerolithe won the International Historic Motor Vehicle of the Year. Other classics that the Guild has restored have been entered in various, Concours shows across North America including the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. One of the Guild’s restorations took a top award at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2015 in Italy. They have also had the great pleasure of displaying their restorations at major art museums and of course been featured twice at special shows in the Middle East. These accomplishments aside, the Guild is very pleased to work on cars that it deems more important to the hobby, the cars driven by enthusiasts for ice cream on a warm summer evening, cars that are old family retainers, cars that are the realization of dreams and cars that are just plain fun. The Guild is located in the town of Bradford, about 45 minutes north of Toronto, and is open to the public. You can visit its large showroom, which due to the demand has become more of a workshop than a showroom. Visitors can see projects currently worked on by the Guild's amazingly talented staff.