It arrived on a trailer as a bare shell with a cracked subframe and no wiring. The crew had eight months, a donated shop bay and a budget that would embarrass a club racer.
The teenagers learned to weld on the roll cage. The veterans learned to teach. Somewhere around month four the two groups stopped being separate.
First-year build, passed tech first time. I have not seen that in twenty years of doing this. Crew Chief D. Alvarez, U.S. Army (Ret.)
The car passed technical inspection on the first attempt — something the crew chief, a twenty-year motor pool veteran, said he had never seen from a first-year build.
Four of the young crew members are now in paid automotive or fabrication apprenticeships.
