Art & Inspiration Tech School Students Doing Good

Once you establish what “good enough” or what completed is.

 

Pitiful? Anthony, ya gotta stop thinkin so negative son.

 

He fixed it. We had a great laugh.
He’ll remember this (hopefully)

 

Sitting right in this picture.

 

We have an E-day at school today. So we get to have a real lunch. We took the bus. I learned something
A th400 will shift itself out of 1st around 5k rpm.
I think we barked a tire
Felt like it.
It’s very loud at that rpm in the bus

 

He’s pooped and showered since that pic

 

I told the student with the carb backwards we were in danger of traveling back in time.
He had a weird look on his face

 

I only wear bow-ties when running a lathe.

 

i must have missed that pic cause the two i see the carb appears to be right just on a huge spacer.

 

I posted a link to a video.
It was backwards. We cranked it as he had it. Not gonna hurt anything, but we got a giggle out of it.

 

Reviewing buffing today with SRs.
Both are old paint jobs. Clean, dry, wet sand then buff.
An old paint job is great because it takes the pressure off for screwing stuff up.

 

Looking at that Caddy three words come to mind "Ah Frikken Mazing"!

 

Thanks. it’s looking better. 30-40 year old paint.
It’s not perfect but will cruise

 

Reminds me of the batmobile with all that orange tape.
My first car was a 1962 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine.

 

Good stuff.....

 

Well that turned out great! I hope the students were proud of their work...

 

They were.
We did a light check today. The dimmer switch was fun.
The trans shift pattern blew their minds. Reverse is where low is for normal cars.

 

What kind of paint were they using back then? That car looks great!

 

It’s a combo of single stage and base clear. The car was originally metallic green. A previous owner painted it black many moons ago. Up close has pimples, scratches and cracks.
It’s a car ya don’t mind driving.

 

The Caddy looks terrific, as you sometimes say Anthony “I’d drive that”

 

welding student pulled up in this 65 yesterday.
Built 460 and DOT slicks.

 

Thats cool! With that motor I'm betting the owner could weld some rubber to the ground.

 

Nah, the hobby’s dead…all kids like is imports…


At least that’s what I read somewhere.

 

Yep, this is what my son drives to vo-tech every day. He is taking precision metal fabrication and has talked his instructor into letting him weld a roll cage in his OT El Camino that he wants to build into a drag car. I guess the instructor typically won’t let the students work on cars, but is making an exception for this project.

 

@anthony myrick very cool thread, I can’t believe I never saw this before. Lots of kids lucky to have you!

 

anthony i looked for you at the show last weekend, as i looked for bamamav too. didn't see either of yall. didn't know you had dropped the caddy in the bus, looks to be a good fit.

 

We was there. Got there late. (10am)
Had to park on a side street.
Bama was beside the court house

 

Thanks for all you are doing @anthony myrick! You are making a huge difference in these kids lives. I just watched a show the other night with Mike Rowe promoting the trades and he is sure helping those of us that see this as important as well.

 

i found yall's rides just not you two.