Collision Repair & Restoration Articles

With the vehicle's original owner present and blessed with tangible encouragement from some serious antique-automobile enthusiasts, a 1978 Pontiac Firebird Esprit restored by students in Penn College's School of Transportation Technology was returned to the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum on Saturday.

More than a half-dozen members of automotive faculty from area vocational-technical schools attended a College Avenue Labs workshop on the technology and application of waterborne finishes.

Automotive instructors from a number of high schools and regional career and technology centers visited Penn College on Friday for training in the application of waterborne paint. Sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Tech Prep Consortium, the college and PPG Industries, the daylong event combined classroom lectures and hands-on experience in the College Avenue Labs paint laboratory.

A representative of DuPont, a major corporate partner of Penn College's School of Transportation Technology, visited the collision repair paint laboratory Tuesday to train students in the company's waterborne basecoat products. T.J. Donahue, a refinish systems training instructor, worked with several classes including Michael A.

Ryan M. Arnold, of Limerick, who graduated in December 2006 with an associate degree in collision repair technology, shared his industry insight with several classes of Penn College students Monday afternoon.

A triumvirate of industry leaders has included Pennsylvania College of Technology among the institutions to which it will donate collision repair and estimating software.

Four Penn College automotive students received a heroes’ welcome as their laboratory labor of love – restoration of a 1965 Ford Mustang for public showcase – was officially returned to the Antique Automobile Club of America’s Museum on June 26.

Technology with the potential to change the auto-refinishing industry on par with the introduction of the spray gun 75 years earlier is in the hands of collision repair students at Pennsylvania College of Technology, thanks to the generosity of a longtime corporate partner.

Four automotive students and their Pennsylvania College of Technology instructor are applying some 21st-century know-how to a car that predates them by decades: a 1965 Ford Mustang convertible that is being restored for display at the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum in Hershey. "This car definitely is a cream puff," said Roy A.

A freshman collision repair technology student is part ofthe vehicle-restoration crew featured in "Car Czar: Amphicar," to be rebroadcast at 3 p.m. Jan. 21 on the National Geographic Channel. Stephen P. Schwartz, of Huntingdon Valley,was a senior atLower Moreland High School when he wasrecommended by a teacherfor an internshipwiththe Marquis Auto Restoration Shop in Philadelphia.