OTTAWA: Why are some guys born to build cars? This retired Canadian is the first to transform a Subaru Impreza into a sports car.
Some people are born to build cars and this retired Nova Scotia man was the first Canadian to transform a Subaru Impreza into a sports car. When Tom MacPherson retired from being a Ford tool and die maker in 1993, he couldn’t just sit around and collect sea shells on a beach somewhere. He had always been mechanically minded and liked to build things with his dad as a kid.
Throughout his life, Tom has built several boats, a hydroplane and his latest project, a Subaru Impreza that he transformed into a sports car. MacPherson says, “I can’t stand sitting around doing nothing. That’s when you get sick and you die very young, when you cease to do things. The mind goes dead and the body goes dead. Keep going. As a young man, that’s good advice.”
