Posted by El Toro on June 13, 2009 at 08:25:10 from (64.12.116.74):
In Reply to: OT Mechanics posted by John B. on June 12, 2009 at 20:52:11:
Some of the best mechanics that I ever worked with never finished high school. Some were mechanics and a machinist. One of them I went to school with and I think he dropped out in the 9th grade and he had worked in his dad's garage since he was toddler. His dad was a mechanic and a machinist.
He left his dad's garage and worked at a Ford dealership in DE for a few years then he was drafted and then opened his own shop about 50 years ago and he's still in business plus he has a school bus contract with about 20 buses. He's probably a millionaire by now. The Army thought he was so good he was made an instructor teaching all those soldiers how to become mechanics at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Hal
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