Fabs
I can tell you most of my classmates in High School were metal heads and worked on their own cars. Plus that if we had problems we had a class for auto mechanics and one for auto body. These guys were ones you wanted for friends. If ya really flubbed up they would take the car to class and use it for a project. The instructors/teachers loved it.
Bill
One funny. I had one brother who fancied himself as a mechanic. My Dads carbuerator went south so Erwin was gonna fix it. He detested following directions and mechanical books. Well he screwed it up royal and lost a few parts in the process. He being the smart A$$ that he was took it down to the Oldsmobile garage and they charged him $25 to put it back together and another $25 to rebuild it. The rest of my brothers and I laughed our fannies off. At this time buying a rebuilt off the shelf was cheaper.
