Three day build with mott school

[M DOUGHERTY]

Hi guys
I'm siting in the airport on the way home from Howell Mich.
I just completed a three day build with the instructors from Mott community. College.
The build is for Snapon tools and will be given away at their big show in Vegas in Aug.
The car still has to be painted, and have the interior finished, but from nothing to burnouts in 3 very long days.
The team was
Jim
Todd
Charlie
Scott

All instructors for the school.

Scott
Jake
Tyler
From Snapon

And myself
Aka The traveling builder.

The build went great and not a bad word anywhere from anyone. The instructors really know their stuff. If you are even remotely thinking about taking the school don't hesitate.
It is as good as you could imagine.
Well that's all for now. Pics to follow.
later
mark dougherty

[dagall]

Cool. I hope you will have some great info for me when you get here with the kit.

David

[JJ'snakepit]

Did you learn anything New or did you have to teach them a trick or two?

[geoffav]

Cool intel. Awaiting pics.

[Todd Baumann]

Originally Posted by JJ'snakepit

Did you learn anything New or did you have to teach them a trick or two?

Really, come on.

Mark, as always it was great doing another build with you. I will let you post photos first then put mine up also.
Sorry I missed you this morning slept a llittle longer than I thought I would.
Next time eh.
Take care
Todd

[j.miller]

Soooooooooo, ya maybe got a windshield left over from that build to hook a brother up? Happy Fathers Day bro.

[M DOUGHERTY]

Todd
Post your pics
I'm on the road to dagalls house.
With his kit. I had to stop off at road Atlanta to pick my son Brendan up.
He was working with the challenge car guys.

Yes I so them a thing or 2 and like wise they gave me some insite on the new door hinge arrangement.
Jim wired the can and he is quick and accurate.

Jeff
Buddy
Pal
Sorry ill let you know in about 12 hours.

[Scott Shumaker]

Mark,

Great time building the car with you. Maybe we can do another build sometime. I think I'm finally coming down from sniffing paint fumes for over half of the first day of the build.

JJ, I think it was a combination of us showing Mark some stuff, and him showing us some stuff. Every time you do another build it's a new learning experience.

Scott

[Tim Whittaker]

Wasup with a new door hinge style ?

[matrixx]

New Door Hinge Style??? Lets see it please!

[dagall]

I am up for you guys to come to my place and build away. Mark dropped it off this morning. Great guy and knowledgeable. Would love to have it on the road in three days.

[Tim Whittaker]

Spoke with FFR, the change was to the frame inside the door. More adjustable now. Hinges remain the same.

[M DOUGHERTY]

Yes correct
I ment to say the the. Door frame. The adjustment is for.the strikers

[ehansen007]

The new frames are a good idea however, Da Bat and I struggled with them when prepping the bodies for the CW show. Having them adjustable was a great idea however it seemed to make it hard to get the door latch inboard far enough to engage the striker properly. The bracket is offset a bit because of the overlap joint where the two come together so I think this causes this other problem. I must have put three hours into the first car just trying to get the doors closed. The older frame was much easier in my opinion however you had to drill out the square holes in those rear brackets as most of you remember. That was a huge pain. So, in our situation, where we didn't have access to a drill press, the new system worked for us. It just caused a bit of another issue.

[Todd Baumann]

Well I don't have the greatest pics but here are a couple including one of the "Traveling Builder" himself.

[j33ptj]

Just curious, what happens to the cars build at Build School???

[cChrisM]

When I went to the build school, we built the car and on Monday the instructors take it all apart for the next class.

It is an awesome experience.

[Todd Baumann]

I know what you are going to ask.
And no, we do not build the cars of students and
we do not sell our cars from the class either.
There is just too much liability all around.
Sorry

[j33ptj]

Todd,...

I wasn't!!! just wondering what happens with the "class material"!!

[Todd Baumann]

What do you mean by "Class Materials"?

[j33ptj]

You know, the materials used in the class room....

The cars!! :-D