Q&A with Rare Spares Mildura's Angelo Halacas 23 April 2016 07:30 Rare Spares Rare Spares (0) ShareWhere did your interest in classic cars and resto projects originate? From my father, I was brought up around cars, race cars & the like. My father Jim was the original Rare Spares Distributor for Mildura & it has been great to continue on the relationship with the Halacas Family & RSP. What is your favourite classic car and why? Tough to pin point one but I’d have to say a street machined HK Monaro. What classic car/s do you own? I've done a ground-up resto on a VK Calais - picture below. Currently working on my dad’s AC Cobra DRB Kit car running a very health 347 Boss motor producing around 550hp. What would you change about cars today? The individual styling of makes & models. Seems to have been lost. What’s the most impressive project you have worked on or you’ve had a customer work on? A customer built a EK Holden ute running an alloy tech v6. Beautiful ute, did 90% of the work him self - pictured below ( Best advice for people beginning a restoration project? Do your research on what’s available and the costing of parts you need for your resto. Secondly don’t cheep out on parts/ the resto it will come back to bite you. Take that bit longer & do it right the first time saves a lot of heart ache.