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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1978
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By TIM RAVEN
Hey, pssst! Don’t tell anybody,
but I know of this place in Bryan
where they fix cars for just the price
of parts and they have some of the
most sophisticated equipment in the
area.
But there’s only one hitch — their
waiting line is months long. Know
the place?
It’s Bryan High School. Sur
prised? Maybe not.
One of the worst-kept secrets in
the Brazos Valley is that of Jerry
Moody’s automotive repair shop at
Bryan High School where a car can
get anything from a tune-up to a
major engine overhaul for just the
price of parts.
The only bad part is the slow serv
ice time. Moody said the students
who work at the shop probably will
not be able to take care of the cus
tomers on their waiting list by the
end of this school year.
Moody’s students said they fix
cars for their parents, teachers, just
plain of folks, and even Aggies.
Moody, a 1970 industrial engi
neering graduate from Texas A&M,
said he doesn’t know exactly how all
those people found out about the
shop.
“I don’t know, man, somehow
they know about it, ” he said. “Word
gets around.’’
With a $6,000 electronic engine
analyzer on one wall, specialized
Students here are not looking for a lost contact lens. They are
part of an advanced automotive repair course taught at Bryan
High School. Teaching the course is Jerry Moody, a 1970
graduate of Texas A&M University. Students in the course
machines like a valve grinder and a der the word spreads so fast,
lathe for brake drums on another,
and about anything else you could
think of to work on a car in other
places around the shop, it's no won-
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learn everything from how to change a spark plug to howto fpositiv
do a major engine overhaul. From left to right are Bill DiUaril I The
Moody and Tommy Pack.
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“It’s not your expensive equip
ment that constitutes a good
mechanic,” Moody said. “It’s
knowledge.
Moody said some 50 to 60 stu
dents apply each year for a position
in one of his two shop classes.
Juniors and seniors at both Bryan
High School and A&M Consoli
dated High School in College Sta
tion can take the course, but stu
dents of Consolidated must pay a
tuition fee. All ' idents must make
a written applici an for admittance
and then have a personal interview
with Moody.
Moody said he looks for “desire’
as well as mechanical ability in these
students.
“If you don’t have it then you get
to steppin . He pointed to the
door.
Some 19 students started the ad
vanced class this year, he said.
Senior Markus Patrenella, a stu
dent in the advanced class, said, “If
you don t do something right, he
doesn’t jump on you too much.
You’re in here to learn.”
Why do students make the extra
effort to get into this class as op
posed to taking other courses of
fered at the two high schools?
“That’s where the money s at,
Oscar De Jesus, another student in
the advanced class said. He went on
to describe when he once saw a pro
fessional mechanic adjust a screw on
a carburator for $5. He said the
mechanic took no more than 10
minutes to “fix” the problem.
De Jesus said that he didn’t know
it at the time, but he knows now
that the problem was just a dirty air
filter. He said that didn’t seem like
good business to him — a know-
ledegable mechanic wouldn’t make
that mistake and customers would
keep returning for more business.
Moody keeps a professional atmo
sphere at the shop. Even though the
students are not paid for their work,
they still call people who bring their
cars in for service “customers.” Cars
are lined-up in an amazingly clean
automotive repair shop and the stu
dents wear mechanics jumpsuits
whenever they are working.
The mood is serious.
“You don’t clown around in
here,” said Patrenella, “There’s no
horseplay.
“I’ve learned a lot,” he added.
Moody said he recommends that
his students attend a technical
school such as Texas State Technical
Institute after their graduation from
high school.
“We set the foundation here," he
said.
He said some of the students go
into the field directly after gradua
tion from high school and make
good.
“We just don’t have enough good
mechanics,” Moody said.
Several of the students just re
turned from a district-wide competi
tion where the students matched
their automotive repair work against
Ruttulion photo by Tim Rain ^ . Cl
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the work of students in simikp /ith i
grams throughout the sunoutl mizal
area. ■ \ (residi
Moody said his studentsk* jrren
hack eight blue ribbons fromi ay.”
competition. Ribbons were aid Sixt
for displays on such thingsasma ewec
cylinders to entire engines. ir hi:
Senior Bill Dillard won «e hile:
those blue ribbons with his ret: [The
Ford engine. He said he spentlls green
hours a day for three weeks on his
$450 rebuilding.the engine. a59p(
After a trip to the state tw^ ting
tion next week with his engine,!) iven
lard plans to rebuild a car W jm t
put the engine in. Heplanstoii isitiv
up for his investment by selfei On
fully rebuilt vehicle. rscc
The students seemed to haw negati
one gripe about their chosen Hi fanam
Dillard said it when he poind ent ti
late-model car that had just k tax pr<
shop. I per
“You couldn’t pour a cup ofii lOnb
through the space between jidCa
engine and the fenderwell,’lie jent ti
With all the new pollution coiRll
devices now on cars, the wm
space beneath the hood is 2r|
more cramped as well as more a
plex these days. pven
Cars become more complex j
more backyard mechanics sviSl
turning to professionals fori]
Moody and his shop seem I
doing everyone a favor.
Wildlife films to be seen
go<
Now You Know
United Press International
Any guard at the jail in Alamos,
Mexico, must serve out the sen
tence of a prisoner who escapes
while he is on duty.
The Brazos Valley Museum of
Natural Science and A&M Consoli
dated Community Education will
present two wildlife films by Ber
nard Nathanson on Thursday at 7:30
p.m. at A&M Consolidated High
School.
Nathanson will be on hand to
present “Okavango” and “Ar-
ribada,” two films which will take
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the viewer from a unique in* jj n t e
delta in Africa to a special beat y eso
Central America. | or th
highlights
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CONCERTS
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TEXAS A&M RELIGIOUS
COUNCIL
TERRY TALBOT and BAND
. . . formerly of
“Mason Proffitt’
. . . also featuring
JIM GILL
RUDDER
AUDITORIUM
March 9 7:30 P.M.
Tickets $2.00 Advance $2.50 At Door
Available at Rudder Box Office
Shadow Wing’s Sound Center
“Okavango”
of Botswana’s Okavango River, , wet
gathering place for an extraor!
variety of wildlife, and as the* ^
reliable source of water in ill ii
wana, an area open to exploitat 3rm ,
. But
Arribada concerns a s! .p
beach in Costa Rica where $
Atlantic Ridley turtles lay 12* ^
eggs each year. The film chros ^ ^
the fight for survival of theft ^
turtles as they run the gauntl^ ^ r<
the sea.
Nathanson, a native Soutkj
can, is a graduate of the Uni'fj
of Cape Town. He is a profess
actor as well as a photogrd
writer and film producerJ F ^
presently working on a fuH-lf I 61 ?*
film on the African lion. I
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Tickets available at the doff
he $1.50 for adults and 75cer! Kr«
children under 12. For more ® etec
mation, call the Brazos'* 01 ^
Museum of Natural Science. , 5 P? t -
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