Dick, Your message about your crew member in school made me think. I
take our car down to the local high school auto shop once a year. The
shop teacher makes arrangements with the other shops and even the math
teachers to have a small assembly. The kids ask a lot of questions and
are interested. We try and explain how much math and calculations it
takes to run fast or for a record. The fact that an attractive woman on
the team drives the car with the E motor in it and is in the 200mph club
brings extra interest from the girls. At lunch time the word has spread
and a lot of non shop kids come down and take a look also. I think if we
can get some of the younger people interested more people will enjoy the
sport.
The shop teacher will have one or two kids that are the top of his
class and I'll let them come over to the shop on a weekend and help with
some little thing on the car. I'm no teacher, but if you show some kid
how to make a fender brace with the shrinker - stretcher and you put the
part on the car that he made, you will see their eyes light up.
Just a thought, Doug
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