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McPherson College, from a Student's perspective (Jeremy Porter) · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Brake Fix's History of Motorsports series is brought to you in part
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  by the International Motor Racing Research Center, as well as the
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  Society of Automotive Historians, the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of
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  Commerce, and the Argettsinger family.
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  Teaching Motorsports History at Merfierson College, a three part
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  episode featuring Ken Young, Christy Socia, and Jeremy Porter.
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  Part 3.
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  From the Prince.
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  A student's perspective on racing history education by Jeremy Porter.
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  Jeremy Porter is from Seneca Falls, New York, and he is a senior studying
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  automotive restoration technology at McPherson College in Kansas.
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  First bitten by the car bug at the age of five after attending the Vintage
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  Festival at Watkins Glen, he is fascinated by the mechanical aspects
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  of vehicles and other machinery.
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  He was part of the team that restored the school's 1953 Mercedes
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  Benz 300S Cabriolet that finished second in class at Pebble Beach.
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  His interests include vintage Ferraris, pre war Bugattis and Alfa Romeos, open
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  wheel race cars, and the development of technologies within the drivetrain.
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  As a student of the Automotive Restoration Program at McPherson College, a four year
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  degree that centers the skills needed for the preservation and restoration of
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  the vehicle itself and its associated history, a younger generation is
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  given the chance to take the torch.
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  Hands on skills such as engine rebuilding and general mechanical work
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  are supplemented by a dive into proper research methods, archiving, building,
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  and handling, as well as general history of automobiles and their artistic
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  and technological designs, along with literature courses that help create
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  a unique, liberal arts education.
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  Using an example of his current project involving the digitization and creation
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  of an archive of original Duesenberg road car racing car and marine engine
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  blueprints that are housed within the school's library, Jeremy's presentation
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  will show how the curriculum at McPherson College culminates in a
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  comprehensive educational experience.
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  This is a student's perspective of learning at McPherson College.
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  I have a soft spot for a number of institutions.
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  McPherson's one of them.
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  Ken and I got to meet a number of times in Allentown.
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  Dealt with his students for a number of years now.
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  It's great.
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  We've got, of course, now Billman Abbey has joined the regime, I guess.
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  Of course, Alfred State.
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  So we're starting to develop something here.
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  And what we're going to get from Jeremy, who is local, is a
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  different perspective than what us older people have about things.
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  Hello all.
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  My name is Jeremy Porter.
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  So I'm a student at McPherson College.
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  I'm here with I am from this area.
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  I'm from Seneca Falls.
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  I was not born into a Carr family at all, but I did attend the Vintage Races
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  down at Watkins Glen, and that's sort of how I got started in this area.
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  I love history first.
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  A combination of vintage motorsports and going fast and stuff like that
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  is kinda what I fell in love with.
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  McPherson College is a small liberal arts school in McPherson, Kansas.
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  We have roughly 800 students, 160 of which are in our Automotive Restoration Program.
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  Our Automotive Restoration Program is a four year school.
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  Where you learn basic maintenance skills and automotive skills
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  on top of also taking your general liberal arts education.
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  So you take communication, writing, your maths, your sciences, your
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  history, and with all of that, you get a very unique educational experience.
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  We have a very small campus as you can expect from 800 students.
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  The two major areas for automotive students on campus
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  is number 20, Templeton.
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  That is where all of our mechanical work is performed.
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  We have our own collection of cars, roughly 85.
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  They range from 1876, 1877.
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  We have a copy of the Mercedes Benz Patent Wagon, the first vehicle that was made.
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  And we focus up until really 1973.
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  Some vehicles that are part of our highlights is we have a Porsche 356, a
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  couple Lincolns, a Mercedes Benz 300S, Model Ts, Model As, along those likes.
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  And then the other major building is the Miller Library.
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  That is where our archives and our automotive restoration library is located.
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  Surprisingly, not really unsurprisingly, we have a third space.
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  Within urban planning and whatnot, third spaces are places outside of
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  your work and home, where socializing occurs, where you can meet new people.
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  The Sheds is a warehouse like building right across from Templeton that
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  is not owned by the college, so it is not under college jurisdiction.
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  Some shenanigans do get up.
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  But, students are able to implement what they learn in class, and
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  they work on their own vehicles.
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  Practically everyone has a project car out there.
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  My own vehicle is a 1965 Pontiac GTO, but there's all types of vehicles there.
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  Because we're all young and we want to go fast, there's a very strong
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  culture of hot rodding there.
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  Kids will soup up their Model A's and Model T's just like they were from
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  the 1950s using vintage speed parts, not using parts that were made new.
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  There's a very strong focus on being period correct, looking
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  up to and using companies and people's names like Moroso or.
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  Edelbrock, using pure 1970s, 1950s instead of recalculated made new parts.
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  We have a very strong financial backing, which we're very lucky to have
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  because of our very unique program.
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  There's lots of school support within the automobile restoration program.
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  Ken was lucky enough to take a group of students to Europe this past winter on a
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  Cars and Castles trips where we visited collections such as the Schlumpf Museum,
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  the Porsche Collection, the Mercedes Collection, and the Laumann Museum.
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  With our ties that we have all over the automotive industry, we were able
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  to get back room access to the Porsche factory and Mercedes factories and
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  see their own physical restoration departments where with their road cars.
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  They're also doing race car work.
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  When we pulled into the Porsche museum right beside us
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  was a Porsche 959 Dakar car.
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  that was being pulled into their workshop.
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  So, it's just stuff like that.
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  Last year, I was fortunate enough with three other students and one of our
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  professors, Luke Chenell, who is a part of the American Bugatti Club, to attend
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  the Bugatti Rally here at Watkins Glen.
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  Every single year, students help create a rally manual, usually focused
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  on the Bugatti Type 13 Bruscia.
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  This past year, on this trip, you just get to be around race cars and
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  physically learn their technologies.
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  When I am looking at vintage cars like this, I am focusing on the technologies.
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  Within the automotive tract at school, there are five different emphases.
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  Technology, where you are physically working on the cars.
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  History, communications, business and management, and automotive design.
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  Just because you are in those five different tracts doesn't
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  mean you can't do other things.
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  I'm a technology major.
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  I'm doing an independent study centered around Duesenberg blueprints,
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  which I will touch on momentarily.
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  And I just approached members at the school and said, Hey, I'm
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  interested in about this history.
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  Can I do this project?
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  And they were very supportive of it.
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  But on these sort of school trips, you get to physically see the
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  technologies as parts that you're learning about in school while also
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  talking to the owners and people who are more knowledgeable about it.
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  So in this bottom photo there, the three students and a professor
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  were looking at the front axle arrangement on a Type 35 Bugatti.
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  Bugattis were very unique in their front axle arrangements, that their front
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  suspension runs through the frame rails.
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  And when you're assembling them, you have to be very, very precise
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  to make sure they're located where they're supposed to be.
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  Bill Milliken, with chassis 4906, the first thing he did when he bought Type
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  35 was to Blanking the wheelbase by four inches and he was having problems locating
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  that front springs where they were supposed to be and then that Top photo
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  on a type 57 this car came out of France.
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  They went to California in the 1960s the owners the Cleary families The first
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  thing he did was chop 18 inches out of the frame put a type 55 body onto it
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  and go Racing and the family still races it like that way today, but the clutch
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  mechanism went on it And they were not going to race for the rest of the weekend.
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  The student and I, I'm on the left in the white.
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  Uh, the other student's name is Matthew Croker.
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  He now works at a shop in Colorado.
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  He does rally work and preps for the Colorado Grand, which
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  features race cars all across.
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  Leading up to 1955, Ritter just said, Hey, we'd like to take a crack at it.
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  We've read the manuals and whatnot.
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  The guys have a very unique, Clutch mechanism.
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  It acts as a lever from the top.
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  The owner was like, sure, take a crack at it.
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  And we were able to fix it in the hour and a half that we
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  had before his next session.
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  And it's still running.
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  As he said, I saw him at Pebble Beach this last summer.
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  Speaking of Pebble Beach, I got to go to Pebble Beach this past year.
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  The school had restored a Mercedes Benz 300S Cabriolet.
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  I was a part of that.
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  There's a later photo of the car that you will see, but as a part of that,
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  I got to attend Laguna Seca and see, again, race cars in action, owners
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  driving them, pushing them to the limits, see a 312P, which there's three
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  of in the world, chassis 0872, the only Berlinetta being driven at 100
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  percent by a professional racing driver.
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  It's things like those, seeing the technologies in the cars
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  in person, which I like.
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  But as a part of that, things break, which is not good.
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  And blueprints, specifically older blueprints, are very important
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  to keeping those cars going.
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  With that, I spent my last, my 2022 summer at an internship in Wisconsin.
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  Our school is very good with internships.
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  We have a career fair in February.
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  We usually have around 50 people come looking for interns.
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  And then outside of that, there's always more people looking for interns.
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  You can do mechanical work, museums, collections, auction houses.
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  We had two former students.
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  Roughly six or seven years ago, who helped finish the Shelby registry,
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  documenting all those cars and the histories of them for the Shelby owners.
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  There's alums that work in auction houses, writing auction houses descriptions,
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  selling the cars, researching the cars, working with people like Marcel
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  Massini, just documenting everything there is to be documented, finding
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  photos that don't exist, reaching out to archives like the IMRRC.
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  Working with them and whatnot, and it's really, really good.
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  But, I was at a shop in Wisconsin, Motion Products.
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  I am a Ferrari fan, and I was able to be around race cars and learn about them.
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  Some of the cars that I worked on, that top left there is a 121LM chassis 0484.
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  It is a six cylinder Ferrari.
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  It's a 4.
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  4 liter straight six.
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  That car was owned by Tony Paravano out in California, and it's
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  the only one bodied like that.
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  It has an increased radiator front opening, and a very interesting history.
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  It was raced by Carroll Shelby and Phil Hill, and Tony Paravano disappeared in
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  Mexico after being chased by the IRS.
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  The bottom left there, that is a 250 GTO, a chassis 4153 GT.
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  It finished fourth at Le Mans in 1963, and then won the Tour de France Auto
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  in 1964, driven by Lucien Bianchi.
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  That is the former most expensive car in the world, recently broken.
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  But here I am as a 20 year old, three weeks into my
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  internship, working on a 250 GTO.
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  Learning about them, learning about the history of that specific car, learning
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  about the history of the other 35 chassis, what sets them apart and whatnot.
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  That 405 that's splattered on that hood there, that is a Mille Miglia winning
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  car, chassis 0082, that is a 1951 winner.
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  That car finished second in class at Pebble Beach, not this past
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  Pebble Beach 2023, but 2022.
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  Some parts I made for that was a steering column lock to hold
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  the steering wheel in place.
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  I worked off two photos taken at the 1951 Mille Miglia, and that's all
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  I had, no dimensions, no anything.
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  So I had to make that out on a lathe and follow the correct curvatures and whatnot.
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  And then that bottom car there, probably the most unhappy looking
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  person to ever sit in a Formula 1 car, is me, sitting in a Ferrari 641,
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  which competed in the 1990 season.
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  Uh, that specific chassis is the chassis that Alain Prost drove in the 1990 Suzuka
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  GP, where famously Senna may or may not have crashed into him on purpose.
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  And it's up to interpretation and depending on who you ask, but
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  an engine was rebuilt for that.
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  And it's a 60 valve, five valve per head, 3.
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  5 liter V12.
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  And two weeks into my internship, I was shown how to disconnect the drivetrain,
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  the engine and gearbox from the tub and perform a camshaft inspection.
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  And I did that by myself, very much thrown into the depths of it.
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  What I'm here mostly to talk about is an archival project that I'm partaking in.
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  Roughly 20 years ago, Augie Duesenberg's grandson donated 106 blueprints to
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  our school, and since then they've been sitting in two drawers.
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  These Duesenberg blueprints were taken by Augie when the Corps had bought
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  Duesenberg from the two brothers.
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  Augie wanted nothing to do with the road cars anymore.
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  Fred stayed on and helped with the development of the Js,
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  but Augie just wanted to do racing, as mostly everyone does.
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  And it's a mixture of Indianapolis motors, Duesenberg Model J and Model A motors,
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  some rear axle assemblies, and then just over roughly half of them are to a
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  W24, which was actually used in Marine Engine that was built for Horse Dodge.
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  They're relevant to our program because you are able to practice
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  and learn archival skills, research.
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  If you want to, you can recreate parts using the blueprints, which
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  is, uh, A little side project that I am doing at school.
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  And they're just cool.
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  Who doesn't want to see life size motors that are over 100 years old?
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  Just some pictures on the left here of that W24 motor.
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  The engine roughly when it was rebuilt.
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  I was lucky enough to see this motor three weeks ago and hear it run.
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  It sounds like an entire field of Miller Rafi midgets.
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  625 cubic inches with a supercharger.
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  And it spins to 5, 000 rpm.
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  It's a lot of noise.
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  It had a whole development cycle over roughly 10 years with different
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  methods and different construction, things that were added, things
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  that were subtracted from it.
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  What I'm doing is researching and creating a little story, a little book if I want
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  to, of the story of that specific engine.
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  Automotive wise, these are blueprints to a 1926 Duesenberg IndyCar motor, 91.
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  5 cubic inches, 1.
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  5 liters.
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  It's a straight eight, and it used Babbitt bearings, but it is not a
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  four stroke, it is a two stroke.
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  One motor was built, as far as I can tell, I was talking to Randy Ema, who is the
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  premier Duesenberg expert in the country.
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  And it was ran in one car and there's three articles on the internet
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  about this car and that's it.
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  And it just mentions it's a two stroke motor.
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  It wasn't allowed to go past 4, 600 RPM.
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  This motor no longer exists anymore, but we have the crankcase cylinder heads,
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  the camshaft profile charts with flow rates that they were able to trying out
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  to see how much power they could get out of it, they're all in good condition.
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  And there's nothing really written about this.
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  And you can see the technical differences.
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  from a four stroke motor.
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  So like in our engines class, when you're teaching about four strokes
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  and two strokes, you could go and look at a physical blueprint that shows
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  the different construction methods and help you envision in your brain
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  what your professor is talking about.
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  And then marine wise, as I mentioned, I was able to see parts
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  and the boat when the engine.
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  And that is a timing cover chain for the motor.
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  It's all dual overhead cams, six camshafts.
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  It's a little bit of a pain to time.
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  The owners of the boat still have some original parts, and they were kind
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  enough to show me, so I grabbed some photos of those parts, and it was cool
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  to see, because I have photos on my phone right now, just on my phone, we'll be
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  properly archiving them and creating a true archive with them, it'll be scanned
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  at 600 dpi, and we hope to make them digitally available for people to learn
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  about, but it was just cool for me to see that these physical parts Were made
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  from those blueprints right there, and those blueprints exist in one other
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  place, and that's out in California in a private collection that isn't shown.
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  I'm a firm believer that these things need to be shown and need to be
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  shared for people to learn about.
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  It's the same thing with racing cars.
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  I think that they should be driven.
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  I don't think that they should sit in a collection.
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  Although there is discussion about that because when you have original cars,
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  or cars that were extremely important, it gets, A little shady and I'm open
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  to discussion about that with anyone.
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  It's a cool project that I wanted to talk about because there is a
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  younger generation that's interested in this and McPherson is a great way
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  to get into this world and whatnot.
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  We have contacts all over and it's not just physically working on the cars
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  because it's the story of the people that designed them, the people who worked
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  on them, the people who drove them, the people who owned them later on in life.
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  The family that owns that boat now, he bought the engine in the early 90s
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  and wanted to build a land speed car.
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  And once he found out it was for a boat, he was like, okay, we're going
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  to recreate that boat and recreate that hull because it's something that is
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  important to the marine racing world.
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  He had never built a boat before, so him and his son just went and started
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  building a boat using the original hull plans because they found the
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  original family whose the two brothers built the boat in the mid 1930s.
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  It's the story of people and them interacting with people, and I think
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  just using those blueprints, using a car, it's a medium to do that because
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  it's about the people that makes me love this industry, not the cars
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  themselves, although they are great.
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  Thank you.
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  I'm free to answer any questions about the program, about the
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  projects, about anything.
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  Absolutely fantastic.
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  You hit it out of the ballpark.
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  You had a question over here.
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  So you mentioned that you are from up here in Seneca Falls area.
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  How is the move going from up here down to Kansas and the completely different
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  area opposite side of the Mississippi?
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  Not very fun.
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  I grew up on a lake.
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  Not having any bodies of water near me has been quite a change,
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  no hills or anything like that.
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  But I've grown to appreciate it.
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  It's its own unique place, the own unique culture.
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  Even though we're a small school, there's a very strong sense
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  of commodity, and within the automobile industry, restorations,
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  auctions, and stuff like that.
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  You say you're from McPherson College, And it opens up doors all over the world.
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  You can walk into the Mercedes Benz Classic Center in California and
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  say, I'm from McPherson College.
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  Could you show me around?
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  And you'd be let in because the president of that is on our board at our school.
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  And the vice president is an alumni of our college.
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  So it just opens up an entire world.
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  It's great.
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  For someone who's maybe looking into that program, can you expand on the
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  advantages of a four year program, you know, coming from a liberal arts
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  background, versus maybe what we might consider the more traditional sort
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  of trade approach in this country?
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  It's very much geared more towards restoration and not
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  maintenance and stuff like that.
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  If you're restoring a historically significant car, you want
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  to get the details right.
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  An example of this is, you know, a car that's, you know, it's, it's,
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  it's, it's, it's, it's 10 years ago, our school set a goal to compete at
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  the d'Elegance with a car entirely restored by 20 year olds against people
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  who have been doing this for 40 years and know every trick in the book.
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  That car is a 1953 Mercedes Benz 300S Cabriolet.
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  203 were made in that body style, 560 overall.
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  It uses a triple Solex carb 3 liter straight six.
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  It's the same motor that's used in the Gullwings, but it's just not fuel
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  injected and with a not as hot cam.
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  But this car has 13, 000 individual parts.
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  A Gullwing has 6, 500.
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  It has a chassis lubrication system.
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  And our car was special order with a different kind of
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  chassis lubrication system.
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  So we had to find the original Bakelite piece from 1953.
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  And roughly 80 of those cars were options, so there's only 80 made.
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  So they didn't have ours anymore, by Argoose, and then show a photo
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  documenting that our car had it.
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  These cars have silver CAD electrical connectors.
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  We had to go and find press photos from 1951 from the Mercedes factory showing,
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  yes, these are supposed to be silver CAD, they're not supposed to be like that.
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  And then probably the most, Obvious one we were asked about at the show by the
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  judges is radiator hoses because most people are used to seeing gull wings.
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  These are a steel braid woven radiator hose and water cooled hose.
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  All the other ones they had seen were just black and they had to double
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  check and ask if this is supposed to be correct and you just open the
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  binder and there's a photo right there.
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  Being able to know how to find your photos in your research, very, very important.
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  And then being able to have the skills to implement that.
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  That is very important as well, and that's what sets us apart from
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  other two year programs around.
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  Because you don't have to just go physically into the restoration world.
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  For example, I've mentioned you can go into auction houses.
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  You can go as just a general historian.
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  You can go and work in insurance.
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  You can go and manage a shop.
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  You don't have to physically just work on the cars.
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  And you're not just learning about the cars you're interested in.
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  I had no appreciation for pre war vehicles, or European vehicles
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  before I went to school there.
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  I was a muscle guy through and through, and now I'm into Ferraris, pre war Alfas,
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  and pre war Bugattis, and just GP cars.
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  If I didn't go to school, I would not be into those things.
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  Jeremy, have you had any contact with the, uh, Auburn Court Duesenberg Museum?
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  I guess you've talked with Brandon, uh, Anderson, I guess,
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  at the, um, director at all?
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  I have not yet, because there's a story about those two,
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  our Duesenberg blueprints.
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  They were looking to get those, but they were donated to us.
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  I think that cooperation is needed between the two.
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  Once they're digitized, they're going to be available for everyone to see.
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  It's important to the Duesenberg legacy.
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  They already have an established museum around Auburn Corps Duesenbergs.
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  And even with us still having the original Duesenberg blueprints, You
• 20:54
  can still print off one to one size copies of them once they're digitized
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  and they can have them on display, for example, and stuff like that.
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  I think that cooperation is needed between people in this industry because
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  there's historians out there who just want to hoard information and not
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  share it with people when I think that it's just for everyone to know.
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  Any more questions, please?
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  After the first trial No idea.
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  Ferrari mechanicals have always come up along with obviously the history side.
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  I'm a chassis number person.
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  I've been able to tell I was able to visit a shop out in California, which
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  is renowned, which my best friend now works at actually, she was able to work
• 21:35
  on a three 12 P when I visited, she was working on a two 46 Dino Daytona's.
• 21:41
  There's an F50 GT in there, and then their shop owners also run
• 21:46
  a 750 Manza on the track and actually race it all over the world.
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  So that would be a fun experience if I would get to do that, we'll
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  see, but I am just trying to figure out what's going to be best for me.
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