Auto Art Vancouver, Delta, BC

As we delved into the history of Auto Art we discovered that our body shop has 40+ years of history behind it. Brent Moore of Annacis Terminals tells us that the shop was started by his father, Herb, in 1972 at 700 Derwent Way in response to the need by Nissan Canada for mini truck conversions and customized vans (that’s the 70s for ya!). Annacis Terminals bought the business in 1977 and it was painter and body man Ernie Pashon who subsequently purchased it in 1979 and named it “Auto Art”. Brent offers that Ernie was an artist at heart and considered all his work to be art.

Auto Art changed hands a couple more times before Dan & Helen bought it in early 1995 and moved the shop to 654 Derwent Way, to a location twice the size of the original. Also being artists at heart, they were partial to the name and decided to keep it.