Mr Mac
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It dawned on me a few minutes ago that in many of my posts I have already said 'we' many times referring to the work that'll be happening on the newest addition to our garage. In doing so many of you may have been thinking my wife or one of my kids is the 'we' in question. So, without further prorogation, allow me to introduce to you, Jacob, my partner in all of this.
Jake the day we put all the furniture together on the new deck he and I built.
Jake is my 14 year old son who has truly taken to the whole car thing just like so many of us before him at that same age. While he loves the Mustang he is truly stricken with the beauty of the Pontiac Trans Am and strongly prefers the early to mid-70s versions over any other. Hopefully this is just his way of ribbing me...hopefully!
He is home schooled by both his mom and me (she does the three Rs and I take care of science, advanced math and many of his electives like auto and wood shop) and loves every second of it. We had him tested a couple of times and he is far more advanced than his public school peers (gets that from his mother, to be sure!). He is an avid reader and is on a local dive team that ultimately can lead to Olympic trials. He builds model airplanes, can turn a fantastic looking wood or acrylic pen and/or pencil set on a lathe and has discovered girls are cool!
At any rate, we have been introducing him to auto mechanics slowly but steadily over the last few months. We started simply enough with oil changes and have progressed through basic tune-ups (points, plugs, condenser, cap and rotor) that include setting dwell angles and ignition timing on our '72 El Camino to doing the front brakes on his mom's mini-van.
Here he is changing the oil on the F-150.
He performed this oil change all by himself as I looked on. I never had to correct anything during this job.
Anyways, I just thought it would be wise of me to give credit where credit is due for a lot of the work we do and will do and to let you know who 'we' really is!
Mac
Jake the day we put all the furniture together on the new deck he and I built.
Jake is my 14 year old son who has truly taken to the whole car thing just like so many of us before him at that same age. While he loves the Mustang he is truly stricken with the beauty of the Pontiac Trans Am and strongly prefers the early to mid-70s versions over any other. Hopefully this is just his way of ribbing me...hopefully!
He is home schooled by both his mom and me (she does the three Rs and I take care of science, advanced math and many of his electives like auto and wood shop) and loves every second of it. We had him tested a couple of times and he is far more advanced than his public school peers (gets that from his mother, to be sure!). He is an avid reader and is on a local dive team that ultimately can lead to Olympic trials. He builds model airplanes, can turn a fantastic looking wood or acrylic pen and/or pencil set on a lathe and has discovered girls are cool!
At any rate, we have been introducing him to auto mechanics slowly but steadily over the last few months. We started simply enough with oil changes and have progressed through basic tune-ups (points, plugs, condenser, cap and rotor) that include setting dwell angles and ignition timing on our '72 El Camino to doing the front brakes on his mom's mini-van.
Here he is changing the oil on the F-150.
He performed this oil change all by himself as I looked on. I never had to correct anything during this job.
Anyways, I just thought it would be wise of me to give credit where credit is due for a lot of the work we do and will do and to let you know who 'we' really is!
Mac
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