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Anthony M

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built by students in our automotive and collision classes
the bus was shortened 82 inches, dropped over 14
drove the bus 1100 miles on its first voyage
so far we have over 7500 miles and 5 states since April
we are currently in Ratrod magazine
the bus was built for a rat rod build-off between schools
a 350 with 462 heads, th400 and GM 1 ton suspension Zd 4 inches with 3 inch spindles. Gm hydroboost brakes and Dana 70 HD rear
 

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here are some "completed' pictures
 

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here is a few build pics
 

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Here is the bus in Charlotte NC
all cars were built by high school students
they were displayed the next day at at UNC Charlotte as part of a science exposition
 

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a couple of artsy pictures by a local photographer
on a cool note, on Tuesday of this week, I was asked to present the bus at a local business meeting. Our state senator, representative, town mayor, local bank president and paper were there. All were impressed with what our students accomplished.
 

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plan on leaving the outside alone
currently working on ideas for the interior
will probably just leave it for now, looks like we may be starting another crazy project
 
here is some more junk we built at school
70s era RUPP RAT still under construction
 

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a couple of baby strollers
 

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and a paper box
we won a state competition with this
it was converted to a touch screen
all the art work is 'sharpie" art
 

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well, currently I have 50+ students in 3 classes
we have over 600 at our tech center with 15 technical programs
we probably have 200+ in our welding, automotive, collision and diesel classes alone.
 

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