NAIT auto body students restore historic car made for 1951 royal visit to Edmonton

Some students successful NAIT’s Auto Body Technician programme are restoring a portion of past – a 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible.

It’s not conscionable immoderate classical car — it was built specifically for past Princess Elizabeth and her hubby Prince Philip to thrust successful erstwhile they made their inaugural royal sojourn to Canada successful 1951, earlier she became queen.

“We don’t enactment connected conscionable ordinary, mundane vintage vehicles, but erstwhile it’s thing similar this that has specified a humanities worth to Edmonton, to Canada…we couldn’t accidental no,” said teacher Ryan Pomedli.

The national authorities bought 60 vehicles for the royal visit. They were stationed crossed the country, including a fewer 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitans.

“The archetypal proprietor would person been the Canadian government, but it was designed for her to beryllium toured astir in,” Pomedli explained.

“It went done a mates of owners implicit the years afterwards. It sat successful a backstage postulation for astir 50 years, and it had been restored astatine 1 constituent successful time, but the restoration was astir 50 years aged and it conscionable needs freshening up.”

One of the Lincolns yet fell into the thigh of a section car collector who decided it would beryllium a bully task for the NAIT students.

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“The information of the car looked beauteous good,” Pomedli said.

“It wasn’t truly rusting, but the overgarment was bubbling a small bit. It had scratches connected it, a mates of insignificant small dents.”

The car assemblage students admit it’s an accidental that doesn’t travel astir precise often.

“We’ve heard from different classes that they’ve ne'er worked connected afloat restoration,” NAIT student, Brayden Nilsson said.

This is the 3rd people that’s been moving connected it and different volition soon instrumentality implicit to overgarment and polish.

“We anticipation to person the car finished, assembled, polished, beauteous for our car amusement successful June,” Pomedli said.