Here are the pics of the roadster the kids are working in shop, its rough but they are making progress. The decklid and dash were made by the students as was the frame. We plan to run a 292/fordomatic. We welcome any comments, concerns, ideas, etc...
When I took auto shop in High School we never had any projects like this. We were confined to doing brake jobs and oil changes on all of the teacher's personal cars.
Sure is an excellent opportunity for the kids. When I was in HS we had a "power mechanics" class and worked on lawnmower engines.
Who/what is Kellisons? I stole the image from a post on here and added our info...playing around trying to come up with a neat logo/t-shirt/sticker idea for our shop.
Way cool. I never got to work on anything near that cool in autoshop. Sounds like a great project for the art dept.
I brought in a bunch of examples to one of the art teachers and asked if her students would like to design a logo, we'll see what they come up with...
Cool, thanks for the link. I hope its cool I'm using it. I picked it because we are the CCDHS Cowboys and I thought the horse kinda fit that theme. If there is a problem with it we will certainly stop, dont want to steal anything. We arent putting it on things for sale or anything like that, in fact that pic is the only place its been seen. Never heard of Kellison before, thanks again for the info.
We have our share of newer vehicles in the shop as well as the '27, '53 chevy sedan, '40 chevy pickup, '46 merc coupe, '65 SS Impala, rigid shovelhead shop projects. I have students from seniors to freshman and not everyone has their own vehicle to work on so they stay busy with the shop projects. Neat thing is bendix brakes from the '50's arent that much differnt from drum brakes today (as well as discs). Pull the computer and F.I. off a newer engine and its just pistons, crank, heads, etc like the old y-block or sbc's we're building for the shop projects. Not too mention the trouble shooting and fab skills they are learning will help no matter what they are working on. Old carb engines still operate on the same 4 stroke principle new computer controlled engines do. I am not cranking out ASE certified mechanics but I think I am teaching the kids a solid work ethic (I have had a number of local shops tell me they can teach the kids what they want them to know, they want kids who know how to WORK) and a interest working on cars. We could change oil and do brakes (and we do) on Dads '97 pickup or we can do the same thing and learn the same stuff doing it on a custom '53 chevy. Which do you think will grad the kids interest? Some of the kids' own projects coming together are: a sbc powered land cruiser, a tbi sbc S10, a '53 chevy p/u, a couple '60's mustangs. a couple early '70's big block chargers, one student is trying to put a y-block in a '49 willys (dont know if that is gonna pan out but dont want to stop him from trying. The best part of class this year has been watching one of my best mechanics befriend a very shy, quiet student and help him rebuild the engine out of his pickup. Dont let anyone tell you that kids today or no good, our future is good hands. Okay, off the soap box now, but I am proud of my students and thankfull for the oppourtunity we can provide them.
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