In Jan 07, a story spread around the internet about Living
Wisdom High School that had a really cool teacher, a really cool project, and
some 13 to 18 yr old girls with the best class that we all wish we could have
been part of. Restoring a '58 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite from a completely disassembled
project car.
Starting with a basket case in the fall of 2005 and about 2
dozen boxes of unmarked parts (some
weren't off the Sprite!) the last owner had removed in his attempt to restore
it, a Bugeye Sprite was reconstructed and restored by a teacher with moxie, and
girls with a afterschool project to enable their learning the fundamental automotive skills of repair
and maintenance. They restored it and auctioned it at the Jan 19 '07 RM
auctions for 24 thousand.
I posted http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/high-school-auto-restoration-class.html then, exchanged an email with the teacher, and never forgot how cool the story was. I've shared it with readers here, and told lots of people at car shows while we enjoyed swapping stories.
They are onto the new project, a '57 BMW Isetta 300! Living Wisdom High in Nevada City Ca. is the place I consider to have the coolest kids car project ever.
The Isetta was parked in '67 or so when it broke the driveshaft donut, and was started on in May of 2007 by the team of 5 students, this time one boy added to the previous all girl project, and they are not financed by the school. It's an after-hours and summer project, that is funded by donations. Cookies are welcome, but parts support is priority one!
http://www.morethanthecar.com/
http://www.morethanthecar.com/
