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This is a 1967 Mercury Cougar. It doesn't
look like much right now, but in eight

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months it is scheduled to travel 2,000
miles from California to Illinois as

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part of The Great Race. What's even more
unique is who's restoring it.

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The Dysart High School Automotive
Technology program and the Sun City West

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Automotive Restoration Club have formed
a partnership where two generations of

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car enthusiasts will be working together
to build the final product. It's an older

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vehicle, so we're going to have to bring up to standards and drivable, we're going to make it drivable, so

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there's a lot of custom work involvement into it.

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Things like painting, removing dents, things like that. Sanding it down.  We're going to need to be welding

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a couple parts to the car that were not
originally made for it and

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things like that.  We're retired. We're 55 plus. And we can play all we want to in the

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restoration facility, but what is it help
the generations that are coming after us

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unless we can partner with them. The
Great Race is an antique, vintage,

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and collector car road rally on public
highways. It is not a test of top speed. It is a

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test of driver/navigator team's ability
to follow precise course instructions,

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and the team's ability to work together on a cross-country trip. They need to be able

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to work together.

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the teamwork driver navigator and stay
on course and just have fun.

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The motto of The Great Race is, "To finish
is to win." So these are all winners if

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they can finish the rally and that brings them together as

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individuals, makes a team out of them
and hopefully learn life lessons through that.

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Today the restoration clubs working with
the students to sand the hood of the car

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and remove any dents as part of getting
it ready to paint.

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There weren't to many dents in it.  There's a few little dents, so we're gonna deal with those and show them how to straight

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that out.  How to sand the paint and in
some cases strip a lot of it off, and just

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go through the painting process with special primers and sealers and all the work that's involved with getting it ready.

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Blocking it straight.  We'll be doing that
so basically we're just trying to get

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the finish ready for the primer.

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And so will also have a man that does upholstery work, work with them how

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to do the upholstery and maybe tires,
belts, hoses, all the things you need to keep your vehicle running, especially one of this vintage.

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I'm qualified for high-vac and electronics so on the electrical and everything I'm actually volunteered to actually gonna help out with a lot of wiring, and harnesses and everything.

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For the students having volunteers with the years of experience

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working on cars has given them valuable
knowledge they may not have otherwise gotten.

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It's pretty cool of them to take the time
off and come over here and teach us these

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kinds of things. And it is like
having a library to your disposal.

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There's a lot of things in this industry that
isn't by textbook. It's all by feel and

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touch and it's kind of with experience you figure it out.  It's not something they can just come in

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and do. It takes a lot of practice in
order to get it right.

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You know, I feel we've got a pass on the tricks of the trade that we learned when we were younger.

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And all the years I've been doing this
as a hobby and

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as a business so they understand some of the basics and why we're doing this so

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hopefully we can impart some of those
tricks and little shortcuts and things will get

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a leg up if they want to pursue this
as a career.

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Most of these students do want to
pursue automotive technology as a career.

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And this type of real-world project with
real-life experts from the restoration

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club can only help them in their future