Interesting, but this reads like an AI generated summary. The loss of auto shop as a school elective that provided professional skills, the end of father and son project cars, the cutting away of the bottom rung of the vehicle ownership ladder whereby a financially strapped teen could purchase a "beater car" for cheap and slowly upgrade it part by part... There's a lot of history and culture implicated by the bare facts recited here... Where's the heart?
Interesting, but this reads like an AI generated summary. The loss of auto shop as a school elective that provided professional skills, the end of father and son project cars, the cutting away of the bottom rung of the vehicle ownership ladder whereby a financially strapped teen could purchase a "beater car" for cheap and slowly upgrade it part by part... There's a lot of history and culture implicated by the bare facts recited here... Where's the heart?
It didn't read like AI to me, but more like a high school essay
The shade tree mechanic is another piece of history