Projects Bought a Mercury on purpose

Student made a tape pattern to transfer to the other side

 

Student shaping the new piece for the cruiser skirt on the other side.

 

I’m not entirely believing that this is in a school, when I was a student that dust would’ve had a least one knob drawn in it by now

 

Absolutely.
You might see the word “Buick” in the dust on the deck lid.
Modified “F” word

 

You didn’t have to modify “Ford” it really is one under the frock.

 

Student said someone wrote a bad word

naa, they just can’t spell Buick

 

Student fabed the rear corner of the skirt.

 

Students got the other tail light bucket fit and tacked

 

Anthony do you think the students will get the car ready to drive this school year?

 

If their highly distracted instructor would assemble the engine.
Hopefully it’ll cruise this fall

 

Mini trucks, and family member's rides (Chevy wagon and Jeep) getting in the way?

 

I bought some headlight rings from @nickthebandit to put on my Ford, I had never thought of cutting them until I saw this post.
Yesterday, I was in the shop, I cut one ring the same width as the factory chrome piece. Oh my god! What a game changer!
I thought they looked good before, but now they look absolutely bitching!!
So glad I read this and got the idea from you.
I really like the skirts as well!! Your kids are doing a hell of a job!

 

Playing with hubcaps

goofing off with the crap I bought this weekend

 

Welp. Just bought these

 

Those are what we used on my son’s Edsel. I like them.

 

I want the Centers out of those! I think they are 55's aren't they?

 

55 or 6
Not sure

 

Thanks

 

Thanks guys, I see some online for sale. One more move forward for a very big project, well actually 4 I guess.

 

Been a while. Fitting this in as it matches what we’re going over in class.
A student is welding up taillight #1. The corners at the bottom was an experiment that we changed.

Had a great fit but the upper corner was a little too wide. He’s doing great sneaking up on that.
Student is doing super at his age and listening.he’s finally figured out to concentrate the grinding on the weld at this point.
He understands we will work the inside gap edge after it’s welded.
Progress is slow because I want the student to finish it with other classes involved as little as necessary. So he gets about 1.5 hours a day to do this.

 

Your developing interest in the future of Kustoms . Teaching skills that are being lost .

 

We just having fun
I’ve got this kid one more year. Just filled out the paperwork for a miller multimatic with the TIG package.
Hopefully I can get him some time with a TIG in his hand.
He learns quickly and digs custom cars.
He was building the fender skirts that’s taking forever so I got him finishing up the taillights to give him a break from the skirts.
Im also planning to get a cheap planishing hammer with extra dies, turning in that paperwork tomorrow. I think that will definitely help him on the skirts. Plus we plan to do a custom body for our EV go carts if we can get that started back up. Kinda would like to do a mini drop tank kinda body. That would add to our English wheel, shrinker/stretcher, brake and mallets. These are the knock off tools but they’ve held up well so far. We have to use what fits the budget.
The student that started the headlights is about to get back on em.
Now his lazy instructor needs to assemble the 283.
I thought I had an OD flathead trans but it fell through. I assembled a Muncie 319 last spring. So if I engineer a clutch fork set up I’m good.

 

Hmmm;
"So if I engineer a clutch fork set up I’m good."
I hear the sounds of a spl-practical-needs-class("empirical how-to engineering" ) happening soon. .
I hope, & I'm sure anyways, that those kids appreciate & realize just what kinda Good Fortune is in their lives right now. I know you said most of these kids have it hard, but very few others will ever get anything like this. Something that can't be taken away, & the sense of self-accomplishment that comes just before that realization.
Happy you're doing what you are, & it's good to see what you, n they, are accomplishing.
Marcus...

 

We do practical needs engineering all the time.
Just did a right hand alt mount and fabbed a custom PS mount for a 292 gm



my SR class is basically a full time shop class so we have a good bit of leeway.
We did a C10 subframe graft to a 57 truck chsssis (van in the background).
Lots of math, measuring, suspension and drive line angle discussion/application on top of all the fitting, welding and finishing.
Kids have it hard? Well I guess we’re no different than any other school. But how some of these students survive is beyond me.
But we at least try

 

Your teaching self sufficiently. The ability to look at a problem and figure out a solution . Even if it’s in metal and paint . Hard work has its rewards and satisfaction . Something that is suppressed in today’s society.

 

Your an awesome teacher Anthony. As said those that are given knowledge by you are quite fortunate...I remember and have never forgotten those teachers that taught me and I still use methods I learned back then...priceless really.

 

He got a little closer today

 

He’s getting closer