Gary cerveny biography

When restoration expert Gary Cerveny rescued the forgotten Special from a California desert junkyard in 2002, the world had long forgotten the former darling of Motor Trend.

Darling is in reference to the car, not Cerveny, although he’s a lovely fellow.

The poor carcass of what remained spent years as a plaything for children outside of a restaurant before retiring to the junkyard as scrap.

Thankfully, Norman Timbs made the body of the Special from aluminum so it was still in one piece, unrusted.

All Cerveny had to do was completely rebuild everything from underneath it.

It’s a sad comment on humanity that such a gem should fall so far, but it is also a comment on how much humanity loves a return to glory. It’s as if we can imagine ourselves in the story, rising to greatness, falling to our demise, then rising again sometime later.

Norman E.

Timbs

A car engineer who worked with the likes of Preston Tuck