When Alan Taylor says he grew up in the restoration industry…he’s not kidding. At the tender age of eight, Taylor began working in his father’s automotive upholstery business. By the time he was 18, Taylor had established his own upholstery business, including work on a variety of classic cars.
In the following years, Taylor abandoned the upholstery business to specialize in aerospace welding. However, by the late 1970s, he returned to the automotive world with new skill sets that saw him doing more sophisticated work on classic cars, in addition to upholstery. As a result, by the 1980s, Taylor was taking on full restorations. Finally, in 1993, Alan Taylor Company Inc., was formed in Escondido, California, where Taylor forged a name for himself not only in the restoration of special vehicles, but especially in the area of prewar French classics from Delahaye, Bugatti and Talbot-Lago.
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