SoWhat Sweat Shop

Just when you guys thought I was a good guy, scandal rocks the So What bunch. We've been found out. We're runnin a sweat shop. Getting kids to do all our work for us.
Clark

[Paul]

yeah but, finger paint?

Paul

[lulabelle]

Send them over! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gifColor change?

[345window]

Those are not kids, they are HotRod hodlums having thier focus redirected...

Actually I have been teaching a Hot Rod class to "troubled" kids. We are building a 29 RPU but sorta ran out of things to do this week. So I showed them what wet sanding (great fun) is like. My 48 needs a freshening up for spring so I let them sand it for me. The truck had black DP90 over purple primer. I basically just wanted to get the black off. They got most of it done. Now I'll have to finish it up.

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[Boones]

You are a good guy.. Donating your time to the kids is a wonderful thing..... but Nike wants the kids back to work right away.

maybe you will keep a few out of trouble.

[lulabelle]

I pitty the fool who has to finish that!I would offer to sand the area above the rear fenders,and the louvers,but I'm busy that day. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Tman]

Kathy Lee Gifford called and wants her factory back http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[praisethelowered]

No joke man. It is really cool that you do that program. If I ever have anything worth sharing I would really like to do something like that. Tell us more about the program.

[plan9]

i was in a school for rejects... but we didnt do anything remotely cool like that http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

kudos to you!

[BARNETT]

Good idea! I was thinking about repainting the van, but I'm dreading those big painted surfaces! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Seriously...it's a good thing you're doing. Lots of Good Karma Points coming you're way.

These kids are great!! You would never guess that half of them were ever in trouble. They make me feel like a star when I'm working with them. The class was started by Jerry Duncan in York. It meets for about 4 hours on Fridays. He needed someone to show them how to do rust repair and a little more. Now I'm hooked and in for the long haul. It was hard at first letting go and not making things perfect. But the kids fight over who gets to work on the car. Some of them are naturals and picked it up right away. It got to the point I could draw some lines on the car and they would take it from there.

We are going to try to finish the RPU for York. Hopefully it will give the kids a sense on acomplishment. I will have to bring it home and clean a few things up before it goes together.
Clark

[46mopar]

More of my Pa. state tax dollars at work. How many of those kids belong to Glasshole?

[lulabelle]

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More of my Pa. state tax dollars at work. How many of those kids belong to Glasshole?

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[52Chief]

I'm very impressed. I think that's a great thing your doing. Not only getting them on the path to a better life, but intraducing them to a great hobby.

Kudos to you!!

My mom works in the educational department of a prison, so I understand how hard it can be to turn some people around from that kind of life.

Wow http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[Spitfire1776]

That is really cool shit man. I really want to get involved with a program like that myself. How did you come about it, if you don't mind my asking.

A good hefty rock on on to you...:)

By the way I think I still have to come and check you guys out. I got the mind of a twelve gauge shot gun....scattered.:)

[nummnut]

good work

[Mojo]

I have this one cousin that is a baby factory. She's got these two twins, only they don't look nothin alike, and this older boy who's a asshole in training. She's a real piece of work, and takes her shit out on her kids, so they're gonna be good and screwed up in the head as they get older. She don't teach them nothin, just yells at them.

Anyhow... one time they came out to my parent's house (she wanted to borrow some money I figure), and I was down in the side yard checking out the bottom end of a Caddy 500 I just had gotten. They're down there, messing with crap, won't leave anything alone. So I shove a screw driver in each of the twin's hands, and show them how to scrape crap off the motor. They were only 5yrs old and could barely speak, but they understood that much. The older one, about 8, I showed how to break bolts loose.. how to understand leverage, how to use your weight against things to make them work for you.

After a few minutes of this, they didn't want to leave. They loved it. First bit of real work I think they ever saw, or knew. I think that's what boys need... something to do with their hands, something to focus on so all the extra bullshit in their lives just kinda falls to the side.

So, I think anything done to help kids focus and learn real, usable skills is damn near the work of god...

[plmczy]

I think I'm going to go out and get into trouble just so I can come down and help http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. In all seriousness that is pretty damn cool of you. Any of those kids could be the next Cole Foster,Jimmy Shine, or any of the cool builders here on this board. later plmczy

[Tman]

Its really cool what you are doing but why are they still vogueing like gangsters? tell em Madonna would be proud http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[J Man]

you need to keep working with them before Walmart gets ahold of them

[mad57olds]

that is an awesome gesture that you are doing. If you can save one kid from turning to crime and ending up in jail it was all worth it. I think i need to talk to some of the guys in our club and hit the local high schools to see how we can volunteer some time. We were all young punk shit heads at one time. For some of us that was a loooooong time ago. And who said we are a "heart-less"bunch http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Stevie G]

Excellent work!
A lot of schools have cut there Tech Ed / Industrial arts programs so the kids that don't fit into the standard system get left out and fall into trouble. I wish more people would get this involved.
Heck......I need to find out when the next schoolboard meeting is.
Keep at it,
Stevie G

Thanks guys!!
These kids aren't in High School. They're in a court appointed program. Most have been in serious trouble, but to know the kids you wouldn't think half of them would hurt a fly. They are just a product of their envirement. A couple of them may be trouble makers but the majority are just great kids.

Yes the good karma has been with me. Twice now after I left them I have run out of gas (broken gas gauge) on the way home. Both times the truck spit and sputtered right in front of a gas station. No walking, just pull in and fill up.
Clark

[bufordtjustice]

You rule. I wish there was such a program like that in my area. Mad57 and his boys should start sumthin up.
Greg

[johnnylonghair]

When are they going to wet sand my truck. I figure thats trade off for the use of the sin-bin. hehehehehe

[SandMan]

I helped out a kid for a rew years. I think it worked? His parents said it realy helped. I have moved to Texas just in the past 7 months and things started going down hill for him. We talk on the phone and his parents give me up dates all the time. The kid just turned 18 and wants to bail. I'm trying to get him out here for school.
He's got it bad, 24 T, 56 F100, 60 Dodge, I guess I might have screwed him up in that respect. Wish me luck.

Sandman
Barons
So.Texas

[Crease]

It definitely worked. He's a great kid. I was amazed by the kind of work he was doin, as well as his attitude at 18. Hope he sticks with it.

[scarylarry]

Clark, you ARE a hell of a guy. You "let them" sand your truck. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Tell your partner/boss to refill my gas bottle! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif Call me, just got back from Chicago last night.

[Nappy]

A whole litter of little Clark bitches!

What are they doin with all of the 'Bad Girls'? I may be interested in putting together a class of my own.

~ Rob

[motor mikey]

Hey Clark, you have been doing alot of good deeds lately, you feeling guilty about something. You weren't cheating on your boyfriend again were you?

[sawzall]

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How many of those kids belong to Glasshole?

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all of them... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

nappy... sign me up to be your assistant!

[sodbuster]

Clark,
Check your PM's.

Chris Nelson
Kansas

[SamIyam]

That's awesome that you're doing this for them.

You will never know how many positive lives you've impacted by taking the time to teach these kids something. Thank you!

Sam.

[roadstar]

You "RULE" Clark http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

I think that karma thing is working. I went hunting a running small block chevy for their project and started running into a couple of great buys. First I found the kids a 283 with a powerglide. Both work for $100. The guy with the 283 has a few things I may want. Then at the local speed shop I saw an add for a guy selling a NOS Offy 4x2 intake for an SBC. After callin the guy he said he wants $150 for it. Needless to say the guy was even nice enough to drop it off.
The real payoff is the kids. I feal like a million bucks after spending the afternoon with them.
Clark

[scarylarry]

Dont go gettin all fuzzy about kids, you'll get Sue thinkin'!

[lulabelle]

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Dont go gettin all fuzzy about kids, you'll get Sue thinkin'!

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I got 4 2's and you don't....nanny nanny pooh pooh
Is that better Larry? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Clark