Category: Youth Engagement

COOP’D UP RABBIT

Found on Craigslist, this VW Rabbit is a typical High School car. It did it’s job especially on those cold morning heading into Auto Shop before first period. The only chicks this rabbit caught were in the coop. It may…

MODEL BUILDING CULTURE

Maxx’s Tribute Project Car modeling has been around since the late 1950s, and has been going strong ever since. Companies like Revell, Monogram, Aurora, AMT, MPC, and JoHan produced some of the best car model kits in 1/25th and 1/24th…

Garrett’s Truck

#KidWrencher Series PART FOUR Street Rod Ed sends in another update on his son Garrett’s 1940 Ford Truck Project.    Even during this pandemic it sure seems time is just flying by. Garrett Baldwin has finished up the frame prep.…

Underhood Details

Here are a couple of videos adding some nice details under the hood of Riff-Raff, our 1956 Fairlane Club Sedan businessman’s edition. We start off with insulating the hood with Thermo-Tec’s COOL-IT Mat. I also dig the way the highly-reflective…

Garrett Baldwin Makes Progress…

Part Two of our #KidWrencher series following young Garrett Baldwin as he builds his ’40 Ford Truck. Taking It Easy At our last issue we heard about a young man in New Jersey, Garrett Baldwin and the 40 Ford Truck…

SEMA Supports The Next Generation

SEMA awarded more than $270,000 this year in scholarships for current students and loan-forgiveness awards to employees of member companies. 2019 SEMA Memorial Scholarship and Loan Forgiveness Award Winners Announced The SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund awarded $272,000 to 97 individuals…

Vinyl Inspiration

An Intimate Evening At The NHRA Motorsports Museum After spending the day at Mitzi’s Pinup Pool Party, I rolled Project Riff-Raff over to the NHRA Museum for the Vinyl Inspiration exhibit opening reception. It was a big day, May 18,…

Garrett Baldwin and his 40 Ford Truck

Dad and Grandpa help Garrett build his truck I got wind of this story of a teen building a 1940 Ford Truck through Scott over at Ron Francis Wiring. Scott introduced me to John Quinn, co-host with Ben Notaro of…

Wiring A Mustang

Another #KidWrencher Project While on a test run of his son Marcus’ ’66 Mustang, Tim knew something wasn’t right when smoke started curling up under the dash and quickly filling the cabin. He pulled over, shut off the key, popped…

18th Annual Cruisin’ For A Cure Show

The Save Your Life Car Show It seems like just yesterday when I went to my first Cruisin’ For A Cure Show back in 2002. There is quite the variety of events to celebrate cars in Southern California. From the…

Nitto Auto Enthusiast Day

Did something a bit different on Saturday August 12th, and went to the Nitto Tire; Auto Enthusiast Day at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, CA. Great to see so many young people into cars. Reminded me of when I first started…