B.C. rock singer spends free time as a typewriter mechanic [Video]

PORT MOODY, B.C. –

The story behind Brendan Raftery’s garage being filled with typewriters begins at the back of it.

“This is the very first machine,” Brendan says, and points to a bright yellow typewriter.

It’s one of two typewriters that Brendan bought decades ago on a whim.

“I thought, ‘Wow!’ Those are kind of neat and old,” Brendan says. He found them at a yard sale, priced at $5 each. “I bet I could get them working.”

He painted that first one the same colour as his car at that time, after figuring out how to fix it on his own.

“The analogue is what I really liked,” Brendan says.

But before he could figure out the mechanical puzzle of the second typewriter, Brendan began touring the world as the lead singer of the AC/DC tribute band, BC/DC.

“It’s great!” Brendan says of performing for decades on stage. “And it just keeps going.”

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