Bordas was then taken into the spray booth, and asked to paint a fender and a door. He did a few samples of airbrush art, and showed them to his boss, who was suitably impressed. “And I wanted to see if I could paint like I could draw, so I bought a $20 airbrush kit.” “I used to draw a lot,” Bordas said of the next step in his education. He was told that the shop wasn’t hiring, but his spark of enthusiasm didn’t go unnoticed, and he was soon employed.īordas paid his dues in this Winnipeg shop, spending two years cutting and welding nothing but custom frames, and then another two years fabricating replacement fenders and quarter panels from sheets of steel. To further his automotive apprenticeship, Bordas moved to Winnipeg where he approached the owner of a local hotrod shop. Soon after, Bordas was working at Carline Muffler - his first paying job out of high school - and he learned to weld and to work on engines. I went over to the tubing bender, and went at it.” “But when Marty showed me the underside of a hotrod on the lift, I could see the (car’s) frame and then picture in my mind how all of the custom bent exhaust tubes would have to come together.
“Marty was into rods and cars, and I wasn’t a gearhead at all,” Bordas said.
After Bordas was given a tour of the shop he was quite literally written an uncommon prescription. In 1985, Robertson was an employee at the Carline Muffler location. From medicine to metal, some 25 years later, Bordas is the man behind Red Devil Rods and Custom Paint, Calgary’s newest fabrication and paint shop.Īnd he has his friend Marty Robertson to thank.
His parents wanted him to be a pharmacist, and he had plans to study medicine. The job was a life altering experience, and it set him on a different path than what he had intended. George Bordas was 17 in 1985 when he started working at Carline Muffler in Calgary’s Forest Lawn. Story first published in the Calgary Herald’s Driving section 25 March 2011.
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