Student drove his ride to school today. And another student building a bagged beater and more

Yep, gotta good friend in Miss. His oldest teen squatted his Silverado like that. Seems a thing to do in those parts!
Signed-Not annoyed

 

Don’t bother me
The red Chevy is one of my students rides.
Great kid.
Dives this circle track beater

Smacking the wall and had a door skin removed

 

Welding student

 

Thanks Anthony for keeping us in the loop. Nice to see young people taking an interest. It’s okay if they don’t like what we like as long as they like what they are doing.

 

School pic

 

One of my Jrs is cruising this

 

Those are hard to find, they got beat on and trashed harder and faster than 5.0s.

 

Anthony, do you ever plan on painting your bus?

It would be a good project for your students to learn body & paint. HRP

 

Yep.
This one is nice compared to most you see

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

I take that as a negitive response. HRP

 

Too bad we didn't have a shop cl*** like yours (and you as a 'teach') back in the 60's when I was in HS.
All we ever learne in 'shop' was make a concrete bird bath or bench !(used the dry concrete method) BIG WHOOP !
I still have the bird bath BTW so...its held up pretty good 50+ years..!
All we heard was get a college degree and don't be a grease monkey....
6sally6

 

I believe in shop cl***es, they are important and hopefully they will return in our countries school systems, I am a car guy, grew up in a racing family, I took auto/machine/wood shop in High School, discovered I loved machine shop, thought process, design, etc, I loved my work, it's my natural gift. HS grad to apprentice, to journeyman at 20 1/2, started my Tool & Die shop at 26 ran till my retirement at 62. 5 kids, 2 tradesman 3 college grads. From following, You are the type of instructor that makes a difference with kids, my hat's off to you sir. One GIANT ATTABOY ! Children/youth need good mentors, with some /inspiration/direction.I built my avatar and had it running by my 16th birthday, BUT I drove like an ***, street raced, tickets, suspensions, no crashes and big time $ insurance problems till I was 25. My son wanted a Camaro at 16, he worked for me so it was his money, I tried my best and explained what can happen, he travel down my road, insurance problems till he was 25. It's that apple tree thing. Thankfully all my children survived growing up and I'm very proud of them. My Opinion in general, Hp and kids are not the best combo, like car cruises/shows at taverns, my inner *** still shows up occasionally, I must have one wild hair left, don't know where or why. LOL

 

Auto shop cl*** was the only thing that got me through high school. I lived for, and in that auto shop. It did well for me. The first 10 years of my working life was spent pulling wrenches on a job, then after hours working on cars. After the life as an auto mechanic, I went to a factory for better pay.
Within a year I was in the maintenance department pulling wrenches on forge presses and punch presses, doing heavy machine repair. Those presses have crankshafts, rods, main & rod bearings, diaphragm clutches, disc brakes and lubrication systems. The die holding rams are very much like pistons connected to the rods moving up and down, within a set of 4 guides held to operating clearance, instead of in a cylinder. The "pistons" compress to form parts or trim parts, instead on making compression. The presses are belt driven by an electric motor to form or trim the parts instead of to create the power. Not a long reach from the automotive motor operation when you really think about it, just in a larger scale.

 

Loved Metal Shop, and especially Auto Shop.
Mr. Repert was a great Auto Shop teacher and let me (helped me) build my '48 Chevy (283/3spd) in Auto shop. Drove it my senior year...even drove it to prom (1970).

 

It’s great to see how engaged and involved you are with your students .

my high school auto teacher was an absolute dink with the personality of a cup of room temperature water .
Incredibly disinterested in teaching , just slides on an overhead projector , no projects , really nothing more then watching him “ do things “ in the shop . Ready to berate , poke fun and ridicule anyone who had a question and not his “ 30 years of spinning wrenches “. I often think how many people he turned off of the trades with his teaching style .

my woodshop teacher on the other hand was frikkin’ awesome ! Hands down , had you get in and do whatever , senior years one year was building a portable from the ground up , next year was sheds the school sold for a fund raiser


teacher can do way more then “ just teach “

good on ya , I love this stuff !!

 

The student with the bagged truck is a hoot. I helped him with a couple others shave his tailgate handle. It’s looked about as bad as my first time . I made suggestions but let him do it as he thought. He’ll probably listen to suggestions next tine. He picked up a new cowl hood and 2 better front fenders. He’s in the process of getting them in epoxy. He’ll have to trim the inner structure of the fender to clear his tires when aired out.
Another student has a beater camery that bough an Amazon exhaust kit. We’ll work on that next week.
The student with the Neon got bumped into. Needs to fix the qtr amd bumper. Plans are to remove and fix the bumper while he drives the car as we fix the qtr. He’s making sure that’s ok with his parents.
This week we “repaired” the center post on an automotive students blazer. The front door striker was ripped out of the post. We welded in a plate and got his door shutting.
One of my female students damaged her cars bumper. Small dent in the plastic. She heated that out and we will spot it in.
Another had his truck dropped off. Not starting. Looks like he fouled the plugs. Somehow he flooded it really bad. So we’re backtracking all the things he touched to try to get it running.
Hoping it’s not a timing issue.
Me and our automotive instructor do stuff like this all the time.
Yesterday we fixed the headlight on a truck that hit a deer. Belonged to a student on our campus, not a collision or automotive student.
Students buff their headlights, change tires, fix small dents, maintenance…….all the time.

 

Custom exhaust on a Camry
Down pipe and cat was replaced.
Then they muffler deleted it

 

Stopped by our local orelies yesterday. A student was there with his hood up. Broke a thermostat housing bolt. It was pouring rain so I told him to drive it to the school and I’d lock it up and we’ll tackle it in the morning.
Today we drilled out and tapped the hole. We were re***embling and lost the gasket. Looked everywhere for it. Then a student pointed at my belly

 

I have it on experience that thermostat housing bolts only break off after 3 PM on Friday.
How did it snap on Tuesday? Oh yeah, it was raining!
Guess this shot should be part of your rotating avatar images.

 

He caught you trying to steal his thermostat gasket....

 

“Squatted” vehicles are nothing new only in the H.A.M.B era we call it the “Speed boat stance”

 

You are way more fun than my auto instructor was “If it comes in with it it leaves with it.” Was the policy.

-No removing mufflers

-No removing catalytic converters

However if it came in without them it was allowed to leave without them!

Meaning cut them off before you bring the car comes in, or it least that is the way I understood it!