Downingtown High Schoolers Are First In The Nation To Restore And Donate Car

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A small group of Technical College High School Brandywine students are in the midst of a unique lesson about the importance of technical skills and hard work — to help someone else out.

“I always say my job is teaching 40 percent bodywork and 60 percent work ethic and giving back,” automotive instructor Mark Serfass said in a Philly.com article. “You have to work on the soul to have good employees and a good community.”

They’re the first students in the country working to restore a 2008 Nissan Altima with fewer than 50,000 miles to provide reliable transportation to a single father of two children, whose 270,000-mile minivan took 15 minutes to start the day he was told about the donation, through Recycled Rides and Family Promise, the article noted.

But they’re not the only ones in on the project; the car, parts, materials, paint and mentoring were donated, too, from Geico, LKQ/Keystone Auto Parts, Exton Nissan, Black Horse Auto Body, R.W. Mallon Auto Paint and 3D Collision Center.

Read more about the project and its broad collaboration on Philly.com here.

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Top photo credit: nikkorsnapper via photopin cc

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