Car is Painted and Shown at Gala!

We picked up the car from Styler's Auto Body shop and the car looked beautiful. We worked on the car cleaning it up and getting it ready for the "Faces of the Future" gala, which is an annual fund raiser and small exhibition of projects. Tally had spent lots of hours on making posters and putting together the media. Jimena has a great looking new "Los Rayos Engineering" logo that we are refining. This group of kiddos is awesome.
I was able to retrieve the completed motor to transmission, but I had a couple of things happen this week, so we were unable to try to put the motor into the car. We should be able to get some work done this coming Tuesday and the students are pretty excited about getting to the next step.
Let's see how this goes next week.

Update

I have been able to take the students to Styler's Body and Paint and have the students do some body work. The students were very interested in the process of filling in the dents, fixing areas and getting the car painted. It's quite a bit of work! I cannot thank Joey Reyes enough for painting the car!
We will be exhibiting the car next weekend, Saturday, May 22nd at the annual "Faces of the Future" Gala. It is a fundraiser for the school and they are looking forward to having the car there to display. We have recycled some old doors, painting them black and setting them up for a trade show display. The students are also going to mount a monitor onto the doors so that it can show a slide show and possibly some video. We have had a few good sessions planning out the display. Alex and Tally have been chosen to represent the project and they will do a good job presenting. Actually I would think that all of them would do a great job presenting.
The adapter plate is coming along although when we started to get it together, the ring spacer was about an inch to thin. Mr. Q had rigged up the motor and transmission with some extra long bolts to simulate what it would be like with the proper ring spacer. He had hooked up an 8 Volt battery and we put it into gear; it worked great! Hopefully, we can get the ring spacer made this week and put it all together next weekend. I will have to work with the students next Saturday in the morning to get ready for the Faces of the Future, so I may not have lots of time, but we will try to do what we can next weekend.
Hopefully the next time I update here, we will have a newly painted car!