Re:20-hour Auto Engineering Video Course from How a Car Works
by AlexMuir on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:08AM
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I too had that very book as a teenager. It's a small world - when I was at uni I was hired to build a website for someone. Their friend then asked me to build them a site and I recognised their name from the caption of a photo of a couple of schoolboys on the back page of that very book. Turns out they built the car at school and went on to build an automotive company.
Re:20-hour Auto Engineering Video Course from How a Car Works
by samwillis on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:15AM
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Amazing, The author was a DT (design technology) teacher at a school just down the road from where I grew up. They would build these in a club at school.
Photo of the school workshop, with a production line of cars: https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/oundl...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0854299769/ref=dbs_a_def...
The original donor car was (I think) a Mk3 Ford Escort, obviously they are a collectors car now.
There have been a number of revisions now, it's published by Haynes the publisher of many car repair manuals. There is also a whole network of small business selling parts, you can buy ready made chassis and body panels for them.
I was gifted the book in the late 90s as a teenager, always planed to one day build one. And the fact the house I bought a few years ago has a garage with an inspection pit is only making it more tempting.