Ike’s Field Trip-Coolest Place on the Planet.  

A world according to an 8 year old:) (Creative wording by mom but snippets of quotes from Ike himself!)

My mom took me on a field trip to Sweet Rides. Sweet Rides takes old cars and makes them look new. (Restores them) It is better than the zoo. 

One mechanic did just body work and he was working on several cars. I liked the way he sanded the pieces by hand. He showed me a maroon 1970 Chevy Pickup (I think it was a C10 Stepside) and a  Trans Am  and a Camaro.  But they were just fixing and priming those.  We didn’t see the color of the two last cars. My Mom said she had a 73 Stepside Chevy that she wishes she still had for me. She admitted that she loved to drive her high school friend’s Trans Am. My mom might be cool after all.

Some of the cars that were waiting to be painted had loose parts all over the inside of the car. it looked a lot like my computer. Wires, pieces of metal… so awesome.

The coolest part was the 57 Chevy Bel Air that they had in pieces. The bottom part was in the paint room and they were painting it black.  All parts have to be primed with gray paint before it is painted with color. The body was painted bright blue and was in pieces.  They are putting it together on Monday for the Thanksgiving car show. 

My favorite time of the field trip was the car being painted in the paint room and meeting all the mechanics.  They encouraged me to use my skills to become a mechanic after I finish school.  One of them even invited me to see the Bel Air at the Houston George R. Brown Convention Center Thanksgiving weekend. I am going to start working on my Dad now to get him to take me.  Who cares about turkey when you can look at a Camaro or a Bel Air?