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    The Young Mechanics Building the Lowrider of the Future

    https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...of-the-future/

    How does a teacher get high-school students to show up early and wait at the door, eager for class to begin? This is how.

    “It all started in this room,” says Galen Hartman, 57, a veteran collision body-shop owner turned high-school teacher. We’re in his auto shop on a campus of the Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy (SAVA) charter school, and Hartman’s nine teenage students have gathered in a semicircle. Behind him is a candy-­apple-red 1964 Chevy Impala, with its engine, other guts, and most of its interior removed. Hartman is explaining why this Impala is special.

    “The vision came from your mom,” he proclaims, pointing at Nayeli Rodriguez, a 14-year-old freshman from a well-known lowriding family in town.

    A year ago, Rodriguez’s mother, ShaVolla, was in the classroom and had the idea for the shop students build a lowrider. And not just any lowrider. Kids need to learn skills for tomorrow’s workforce. So why not build an electric lowrider? One with all the traditional lowrider features—a car that can hydraulically hop and ride on three wheels, with custom art all over it. Only no combustion chambers and no gears. A lowrider with a fully electric powertrain
    Hav to read the rest to see that kids and cars are still happening in High School shop classes even if there not at the school.
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    There's no ride like a low ride......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    Why?
    Why not?......Ben
    The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    Why not?......Ben
    Because they are functionally crippled :shrug;
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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