Andrew Priest's The Lug Nuts’ Automotive Adventures

  Remember to reflect on your progress towards your initial goals, how those goals may have shifted/changed, and what impact this time has had on you overall. I do not believe our goals have changed much other than the addition of new goals. I originally planned on learning mostly about the mechanics of automobiles, how they work, what is required for upkeep, etc. However, This project has also taught me a lot about buying and selling in the secondhand market. Having to reach out to others in order to keep progressing in our goals was something we did not account for originally, but it allowed us to meet a lot of new people and it brought an aspect of challenge to this project that we welcomed. Would you recommend this senior project to another student? Why or why not? If you have the adequate resources and flexibility to work around a lot of problems and think in advance about issues that may arise I would totally recommend this project. We had a lot of tools at our disposal and w...

  Tell a story about a happy/challenging/funny/meaningful moment from the week One story that sticks out to me was meeting some prospective buyers for the van. We have been hoping to sell the van we worked on in the first week in order to pay ourselves back for the supplies and materials we have invested in this project. We have met a few interested customers, but the last people we talked to were the most interesting. They were an older couple who needed a van to be able to drive their grandkids around in. During the test drive, we inquired a little bit about their lives. He ended up telling us the story of how he was a veteran who had learned who was stationed in China about 50 years ago. He met a woman and learned Cantonese in order to talk to her. That woman ended up being his wife, and 47 years later they are still married. They moved all around the world due to the military but ended up in Tuscon Arizona before moving to Forest Grove a couple years ago. This impacted me becau...