So, I teach a cl*** on wednesdays for the local highschool. last year the kids built a gokart and this. We didnt get it finished by the end of school, so a few kids showed up throughout the summer and got it drivable. This year the kids want to do a foux patina job on it and give it a real old style racecar look. It runs a '69 mach, 429 with a c6 and a mopar rearend with a spool and 3.73 gears. the front axle is from an A100. We outfitted it with disc brakes, corvette mastercylender, and some homemade ladderbars. it runs like hell, and burns tires like crazy. Oh yea, the kids nicknamed it the scarelane.
That thing looks killer! Those kids should be proud to have such an awesome teacher! I wish our shop cl*** would have done something constructive other than change oil in teachers cars!
Very cool I wish I could of had a project in school like that. Quick 2 question, Who owns the car after it is done? And who owns the merc or hudson in the back ground?
Way to go, guys!...and Teach! Love the name. Also like the idea of a race-car paint job...but no "patina"...make it look like a newly-built drag-car with shiny new paint and lettering! "Scarelane" in HUGE letters on the side, maybe in gold-leaf? (Easy for me to talk...just my $.02) Again...nice work men! Rick
The scarelane is my car. i bought all of the parts, and supplied the donor car. the car in the background is a 1950 lincoln. i am going to build a mild custom from it for a resale car.
thats really cool when i was in high school we had a all electric s10 we was building but it never got done and when my sister was in high school she took the auto cl*** and they built a 1970 chevell drag car and man that was one bad car.
Thats bad ***. My auto teacher just got drunk. Luckly I got to work on other teachers and that got me out of school.
If it weren't for Shop Cl*** in my Junior and Senior year, I would have never had my first car...a 32 Ford Roadster. Graduated in '61...
So now we know the secret to Jim's success... He has an army of kids working the pits. J/K... Nice looking machine, and something the kids should be proud of. IMHO, pulling the engine and detailing the whole compartment with aluminum would be the next logical step. Dont just teach 'em to do it, teach 'em to do it right and have some pride in what it looks like when it's finished.
Nice job Jim, I tried to get into a local vocational high school in Cleveland a couple years back to do the same thing....didn't work out, the instructor seemed more interested in teaching them real life late model stuff. I suppose the money is in the insurance business with late models, but there is plenty of money to be made out there with the older stuff. It is really cool that you have lit the fire for some newbies....
Jim the kids built a nice one. But I might forgo the fauxtina. Hook them up with some '60s race car pics and let them go nutz with the paint instead. OK its just an opinion.
Thats the way to go. In my auto shop we learned the science of the coil and the windings in the alternator and how that junk worked. I dont remember it at all. Total waste of time. Oil changes on teachers cars and cutting up a car that one fool wrapped around a tree on the access road. Got all the "wood math" in that shop too. Same teacher. Didnt care then, dont care now. I know when a coils bad, and I know how much wood I need to make a shelf.
Dang thats wicked, I hope I get to do something like that when I get in highskool next year... Oh well, if not I heard we get to work on our own cars during our mechanics cl***!!
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