- 1. Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Malaboge@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:07:07 EST
- Fellow Metal Freaks In this disposable world it is becoming more difficult to find any real artisans any more. For that matter, it's becoming difficult to find competency any more. The latest lament
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00057.html (8,727 bytes)
- 2. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:27:35 -0800
- Ditto. Even the local radiator shop I used to go to with busted Alfa radiators closed up. They said that plastic radiators were the death warrant for radiator shops. I found another, but I'm not enti
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00059.html (7,765 bytes)
- 3. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: mhenry <mhenry@uswest.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:15:41 -0700
- What a great soap box topic, allow me to climb on! If you do find someone really good it's likely they'll have a waiting line several miles long, and be totally fed up with "wing-nuts" and all sorts
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00061.html (8,748 bytes)
- 4. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: "Charles Christ" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 02:22:17 -0000
- soap box 2! wanting a nice car not so long ago persuaded me to venture into fabrication and paint. now wanting to vintage race has pushed me even farther into chassis reconstruction and repair and pa
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00063.html (11,130 bytes)
- 5. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Bshinton@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:54:04 EST
- Bethany College in McPherson, Ks has a classic car restoration - college degree program. It's been in operation a number of years. They have more applicants than slots in the program. Most of the stu
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00064.html (7,830 bytes)
- 6. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Bahnseye@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 12:33:37 EST
- A "BS" no doubt?? JH Bahn
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00065.html (7,847 bytes)
- 7. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: EeeMCee@cs.com
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 01:13:07 EST
- << even the local kids who stop by from time to time are interested in what i'm working on but seem to have no mechanical aptitude. 1 or 2 seem to have some interest and talent and start to hang out
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00066.html (8,261 bytes)
- 8. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: "Bruce Mansell" <bruce@rapidmachinery.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 06:42:29 +1100
- Hi from Australia Nick, My son and I run a machine shop which makes very specialised printing machinery. We have about 15 guys and you would be amazed that only the ones over 45 years of age know any
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00067.html (9,087 bytes)
- 9. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: "Jeremy Braithwaite" <atroz@compuserve.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:13:12 +1100
- Hear hear! Which is why you look for race mechanics with fitter and turner skills not mechanical 'engineering'. regards Jeremy -- Original Message -- From: Bruce Mansell <bruce@rapidmachinery.com> T
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00068.html (9,704 bytes)
- 10. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:42:14 -0500
- My solution seems to be to get more and more self sufficient as time goes by. I now do almost all of my engine work, body work, welding, fitting, turning, milling, paint, etc - and looking to learn h
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00070.html (10,330 bytes)
- 11. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Hayes <hayes@mediaone.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:25:49 -0500
- But if they are like my kids, they are whizzes with computers. Which is probably a much more marketable talent today. Jim (Paying tuition for two hackers in college) -- Jim Hayes Winchester, MA, USA
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00072.html (8,298 bytes)
- 12. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@huntnet.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:36:40 -0600
- One more reason to migrate. John
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00073.html (9,195 bytes)
- 13. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Tombread@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 06:11:24 EST
- In my opinion the relative disinterest in working on cars and the lack of development in mechanical skills is largely due to the complexity of contemporary cars. When I was a teenager as the earth wa
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00075.html (8,368 bytes)
- 14. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:50:51 -0800
- Actually, there are places kids can learn this stuff, even in the plasticised, netified, home of instant gratification, the Silicon Valley. DeAnza College has an Auto Tech program, and has had one fo
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00076.html (9,254 bytes)
- 15. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:25:44 -0500
- My grandfather used to complain that I wasn't interested in horses - only things. Derek
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00077.html (8,448 bytes)
- 16. Re: Sign-o-the-times (score: 1)
- Author: EeeMCee@cs.com
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:01:45 EST
- << Actually, there are places kids can learn this stuff, even in the plasticised, netified, home of instant gratification, the Silicon Valley. DeAnza College has an Auto Tech program, and has had one
- /html/vintage-race/2000-03/msg00090.html (7,662 bytes)
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