Down in the basement at Central Campus is an award-winning, nuts-and-bolts program that is the strongest remaining link to the building’s origins as an assembly plant for the Ford Motor Company.

Under the direction of Jim Nelson, who graduated in 1990 from the curriculum he now heads, the Automotive Technology department of the Career and Technical Institute trains students for careers in an industry that’s always moving ahead. Nelson’s apprentices generally are immersed in the increasingly complex ways and means of the modern horseless carriage.

But right now they’ve taken on a project that throws them into reverse, all the way back to 1935.

 

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