The open-topped two-seater combines everything cool about 1950s European sports cars.
—were hammered and wheeled into shape at Marcel’s. The founding father passed away in 2018 at the age of 89, but he had been teaching his sons, Luc and Marc, all the tricks of the trade.
“I wish I knew what he forgot,” Luc De Ley told Hemmings after his father passed away four years ago. “I feel I have metal shaping skills, but he was an artist. He had a vision in his head and he would build it.”Luc has those skills, too, as you can see here. There’s no other way to make something like this.
“I start with nothing,” Luc told SENtertainment Digital Media at the SEMA show, where this beautiful MarCel Roadster was revealed. “I take a sheet of metal off the rack and I make everything. This was built exactly like it would have been built in 1930.”“I have three main tools: I have an English wheel, I have a hammer, and I got a couple of tree stumps. And those tree stumps, I use them every day. There is no technology in what I do.
“There’s nothing new on this,” said Luc. “I look at this corner and I like this corner-look from a Jaguar, and that hood scoop—I have a model from a 250 Testarossa Ferrari and I’m gonna make mine look as close to that as I can. Everything on it is… nothing is new but the way I put it all together, it’s an original.”And it’s not going to be a garage queen, either.
“It’s got 27 miles on it but I only got my license plate Friday. I haven’t had it finished very long. But it’s not a show car—it’s a driver.”Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed Ford, all its products and everyone who ever worked there.
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