For Kev -springy thingies

[Olds]

As a designer, I had the good fortune to visit companies like this, plus foundrys, mills, machine shops and the like. Always love the smell of hot metal, oil and cutting fluid.
I was lucky in that I had an indentured apprenticeship, with a company that took apprenticeships very seriously. Four years of college, with one year, inhouse  training school, two years in various departments and final year in your chosen field. At the end of that you got taken on as a junior. with another two years of training and college. Loved every minute of it.

[kapri]

By the time I decided I wanted to pursue 'getting my hands dirty' for a living I was 18 and 'too old' to get an apprenticeship. So for the past 42 I have been a apprentice to myself

[BikerGran]

My son in law did a proper welder/fabricator apprenticeship - 3 or 4 years, with a day at college each week - as a result of that (presumably) he's never been out of work for more than a month, in spite of various redundancies/firm closing down or relocating.

[Manky Monkey]

I did a 4 year printing apprenticeship cos I wanted to be a proof reader. In those days it was a "closed shop" -you had to be in the union to get a job in the industry & you had to do an apprenticeship to get in the union. By the time I'd finished, proof reading was a dying art, being done by those new fangled computer thingamabobs.

[triker_Chewie]

4 year electrical apprenticeship.
11 years post trade

[stinkey]

Seems I went same road as Kev ?  Slung out of school just as I turned 15, ( found it boring/ waste of time ) my step father got me an interview at Godfrey Davis ( ford dealer ) for apprentice mechanic..but my maths weren't good enough ?  So up till I was aged 32 I had no end of jobs..did the London knowledge 84/88..best thing I did..almost everything iv learnt to do with hotrods/chops as been self taught or through buddies showing me..so not an expert in anything but love learning new stuff given the chance..

[stinkey]

So kevs got another Capri ?  I take it this ones going to be a lot lower than the old one ?

[kapri]

As low as my last Capri, as there is actually a practical limit to consider . At 4" lower than standard ,with no air or hydraulic assist , I drove my last one to Isle of Skye and back with no grounding out problems   I'm currently remaking the entire exhaust system as it ended up with only 2" to the deck .On the last one I even had to remake the gearbox crossmember to lose the edge returns that lost me a further1" ground clearance