1st year Auto Body students at NDSCS spend the first 8 weeks learning and developing skills in about 40 different repair tasks. Donated vehicles from a local salvage dealer and from manufacturers get dented, straightened, welded many different ways, sectioned, sliced and diced and eventually go back to the dealer and are crushed.
The students are always interested in customizing and want to chop a top. This year my section had a Ranger PU which presented itself nicely to get whacked. So without all the usual extensive planning and prep that would be done in a shop chopping a top, the students took out 4 inches and dropped the suspension. A fun couple of days. They did learn that preplanning and a lot of forethought prior to grabbing the saws would be important in a real situation.
Here's the before and after....Sorry the pics are not great.
