Winchester, wearing a bright blue, fire-retardant racing jumpsuit, and Harper are at Quartz Hill to get boys interested in auto racing, the high-tech end of auto mechanics, and by the time they leave about a dozen boys have signed up to be apprentice members of pit crews at Saugus Speedway this racing season. The boys climb into the streamlined cockpit, imagine the beast underneath them, and rock to the music that roars from Harper’s 355-horsepower engine. Maybe it sort of looks like dad’s old clunker, but there are roll bars inside and a monster motor under the hood. It’s time to visit fantasy land: the interior of a genuine, battle-dented stock car. Then Mike Winchester and Will Harper drive up with their trailers. Nothing very exciting or glamorous, just future auto mechanics dissecting a fuel-injected carburetor and trying to understand the mysteries of vapor lock. The youths take a quiz on the “Fundamentals of Magnetism.” Then they do grunt work in the bowels of a compact Nissan. Engstrom’s fifth-period automotive lab at Quartz Hill High. It begins as just another routine day for the 15 boys in Mr.
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