Come with us to explore an automotive repair shop open since the mid 1980s. Kurt Knoll, owner of Grand Center Automotive opened in the mid 1980s and closed shortly before passing away in 2022. Grand Center Automotive operated for those years at the old site of the Valley City Brewery in Grand Rapids Michigan built in 1866. Grand Center Automotive was a automotive repair shop performing all types of mechanical repairs including restoration and paint. Kurt Knoll received formal automotive mechanic’s training at Grand Rapids Junior College and used his skill to open Grand Center Automotive. Unfortunately, Knoll passed away in 2022 and the Shelby remained partially disassembled and sitting in the same old brewery building that he acquired several months after his 1985 purchase of the car.
A big THANKS to the late Kurt Knoll’s family members Joe Bruinooge, Ken Knoll, Kolleen Bruinooge, Amy Levandoski and Kathy Knoll for allowing me to take a history lesson and some history from the Grand Center Automotive. It was an honor to tell a little bit of Kurt Knoll’s story.
1969 Shelby GT500 Pilot Test Car photos and information credit, oldcarsweekly.com
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Grabber Blue 1971 Mach 1 Cobra Jet photo credit to Scott Skalitzky
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