I live in the mid-west, and I have three 1950 Ford coupes. I only drive one and the other two are in need of a lot of work. I have a title for one (business coupe) and the other one is a club coupe with no tittle and a running flathead. I have a two-car garage with tools and plenty of spare parts, etc. to get another one running easy. The question I have is this; I want to find someone much younger to help me work on my running classic car who is a car guy is. I have looked locally, neighborhood kids. I thought about donating it to my local high school or community school., but the main goal is to connect with at least one (gearhead) to shoot the shit with and get a few things done and get them interested in the hobby. Any suggestions? Way too many of us are dropping like flies!!! Any suggestions Athony?
I have a suggestion, seek out any local car clubs. Car guys get together to shoot the shit and help out with members cars just like you said. Many club members know younger guys, good luck
Be careful on the donation idea. Some schools can’t do anything but use em for instruction then auction or scrap them. Usually scrapped. Gonna have to start hanging out with the younger car guys. The tuners, lifted, bagged, drift ……..whatever involves twisting wrenches. Car shows, parking lot shenanigans, cars and coffees, cruise ins. Take an interest in their stuff and it’s usually reciprocated. They don’t look at cars like most here do. Old is old, cool is cool. Old is a late 90s truck.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will look into car clubs etc. Also, I would hate to donate my coupe and then find out they scrapped it. I'll keep looking.
Read the article "Teaching Truck" in the latest GoodGuys Gazette about the auto collisions technologies program at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo. They have it going on. Don't know how close you are to Waterloo but call Terry Van Dyke there and you can talk to him first.
Thanks, I live about 2 and a half hours from there. I'll check out the article. Maybe he knows someone here in the Quad Cities that would be interested.
Local GM factory donated cars from time to time. We pulled the vin tag. So it to the junk yard if the school wants to get rid of it.
Yep. Factory donated rides will have void vins Cars donated by an individual is up to the school system. Each one is different. Most don’t want the liability so they get crushed anyway. we turned one into a round track beater but the school backed out of letting us use it. Not even with an instructor driving it. next time we do this we won’t use a donated car
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