High School Hustle - Rabbit's Used Cars

[@robb5522]

In the early '60s my dad went to vocational school to be an electrician. The teacher had a really heavy German accent, remember this was really soon after WW2 - and on the first day the teacher put a wiring diagram on the board and asked the class if anyone knew what it was. My dad says to his friend "I bet this guy was a submarine commander or something." as a joke. So to be a smart-ass, he put's his hand up and says "It's a wiring diagram for a U-Boat." The guy looks at him and says "You are the first person to ever get that right!" The guy was super nice to my dad after that haha. Dad was electrician for 50 years after that.

[@ronniesox6649]

I went to Tech school after high school to study automotive repair. People would bring cars to school to get fixed for the no labor rates. A buddy and I installed a radio in a car and took it out to test drive to make sure radio had good reception. Got back and instructor was waiting on us for a stern lecture. The car happened to be a 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner 440 with a manual 4 speed. Tires had a burnt spell for some reason. Never made a living being a mechanic. But I learned things that has helped me since 1975. Ended up being a truck driver. Keep up the videos Rob. I enjoy them.

[@dannydillon997]

Gonna miss your stories more than anyone will ever know bud.

[@tylert558]

I would love to have Rob’s pops come on here and tell some stories, I guarantee he has some good ass stories like his son does.

[@tjmoneybags]

Metal star falls and sticks in a kid's ear....Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! I laughed so hard...... great stuff!

[@natesyring8981]

Me fuckin too🤣🤣🤣

[@JONSDIYM]

I appreciate your stories Rob. I grew up in Appalachia as a child and my family were car nuts. My first car was a 69 2dr Impala which I swapped in a 350 to go with the power glide transmission. First trip up my street I pulled a 300 foot screaming burnout , only to stop to pull into my driveway. My Bible belt mother had that Gem on a flatbed within a month. My neighbor happened to be my 8th grade math teacher who owned a red 427 stingray manual convertible. He walked over when he seen that Impala being loaded and called my mother everything except intelligent... Killer Miller (my neighbor) let me drive that Vet to Prom. He told me to hand him the keys once I got there. Even though it was a one way trip... I will never forget how cool Mr. Miller was. Vet only had 43k on it at the time (1998).

[@tonygoza5919]

It is sad how shop classes are taken out of schools. And then they teach common core math...you learn more math in shop than anywhere.

[@astrum_nauta]

They still have vocational schools. At least where I live. I'm signed up for auto body class for my senior year.

[@tonygoza5919]

Yes Vocational schools are great. But in High School. I took welding, metal working and woodshop. But the school i attended no longer teaches those clssses nor many others. Which could have a great impact on a young persons life. I feel more so than just reading a book about it.

[@mikecastellon4545]

Yes, but u learn a LOT about diversity and u learn there are really 13 genders and the democrats are discovering new ones daily

[@astrum_nauta]

@@mikecastellon4545 why you gotta bring politics into this? Damn boomers always gotta ruin everything

[@mikecastellon4545]

Eric Homewood I bring truth to discussions in order to see the pain it causes among those who are unaccustomed to it.just as holy water sprinkled on a vampire, sprinkling the truth on those who live in alternate realities causes their hair to burst into flames and their brains to run back to a safe space where truth is never allowed to enter

[@JB-no2fx]

“There wasn’t criminals in it....yet.”😂😂😂😂

[@davewoodmancy4596]

When I was in high school I took wood shop and machine shop. They didn't have any Automotive classes. They need to bring these things back cuz it's a dying trade

[@tylert558]

Dave Woodmancy I took the same shop and automotive class but non of the mechanic type equipment worked and 90% of the class was just shop class because the lack of working equipment and people didn’t wanna use what was there and worked and the school was trying to push the program out and they didn’t wanna fix anything either. It sucked because I loved that class and could have learned a ton of stuff from the class. Teacher was great but the kids didn’t want much to do with it at all.

[@Halo3Mw2]

I never took trades in school but I’m a machinist now!

[@JK-g62]

Yeah...millenials dont care at all about vocation anymore. Its going to be a problem sooner than later. They basically view autos as appliances. Its sad!

[@tylert558]

•ShaoOG• I am not a ASE certificate mechanic but I learned alot buy trial and error and learning from friends and just helping each other grow and I can now pull a motor, full take apart and put back together, I am not ready to pistons and rings and clearances and all that but that is my next step to learn. It just sucks because that class could of taught me most of that and I could have started ahead of the curve not from a 30 dollar harbor freight jack and hand tools under a car trying to figure out how to fix what I was looking at.

[@TheJagjr4450]

LOL my 1980's high school hustle in Greenville SC at Eastside was fixing classmates cars when they were damaged on Friday or Saturday nights & prior to them going home on Sunday afternoons.

[@gsmith207]

Went to a Voc school too. Stories are so awesome! Re livin mid 80’s Voc memories because of you! You the man Rabb!

[@DaddytechEnt]

*You graduated in 98? dang son i got T-shirts older than you. no lie, i have a Concert GNR T-shirt from their Apetite for Destruction tour. wow i thought you were so much older than me and here you are 10 yrs younger that's amazing.* you've lived a lot for a 40 year old already

[@Long-nd8bq]

My old high school shut down the auto shop and turned it into more classrooms. We used to have a lot of fun in there back in the late 90's. I graduated in 01. Shop teacher had an SHO and a Lightning. We would do burnouts in the back lot, work on our own cars, and go out racing after school. Lots of Camaros and fox body Mustangs, v8 trucks, and I had a supercharged Thunderbird. We pulled all kinds of shenanigans in the shop too. Sadly my son won't be able to take auto shop in school.

[@crazychick]

God darn Mazda truck has one of those dang switches too! Our old truck had a switch that if you hit a bump hard enough it would flip and you have to reset it beside the road. Drove me crazy

[@fordblue2257]

"Red as a.....RED THINGS"! Haha hilarious

[@jayarnold8883]

Throwing stars lol.......we did it too in shop class. They stick great in suspended ceilings. ....for a while. Good times !

[@gsneff]

Shop classes were the best. I have never worked in those industries but I use the skills in life.

[@TheCanadianBubba]

The shops were the best part of high school... thanks for the memory Rob !

[@mexicanspec]

I was never that stupid, even in high school. My auto shop teacher was a professional mechanic. On the weekends he worked at a shop and on Monday he would test the class with a difficult case he had to diagnose that weekend. He was a good man.

[@blitzkrieg2003]

Rob doing the lords work for all the thirsty isolation guys.

[@thetilemaniac]

7 is my lucky number, i gave you thumbs up #707. Its gonna be a good day! As a 46 year old i have acquired many skills and learn more each day, which is why i haven't missed a lick during these shutdowns! Big brother can keep his stimulus money

[@Docmiller4425]

"Let's drive it..." LOL... I can just see some of the antics you did. I took auto body shop at our Votech so I know what it's like. I have so many great memories of the classes.

[@DKArsk1]

"Those who can, do. Those who can't... teach."

[@John1911]

Jared A “...And those who can’t teach, teach Phs Ed.” 😎

[@Lockpickingblacksmith]

Actually, that's generally not true of shop classes. It's (generally) that they're either too old for their trade or they're missing fingers or something.

[@mcalvinscott]

I would love to see a show with you and Mike Rowe. Especially because you and him are so for vocational schools.

[@ABArsenal]

as soon as you said a bump on the roof and the messed up bumper i knew it was the switch lol.

[@markd4524]

Hey Rob, I went to Enoree Voc in 82-83, first year was small engine repair, second year was Carpentry. Learned a lot.

[@Cowboylikeme]

My first car was a 64 Ford fairlane.. black with red interior…. My best friend had a 63…. Great cars!

[@fishyfool]

Hey Rob, Is Rodney Dangerfield your real father?

[@bandccoresohio]

He gets no respect...lol

[@RangerDanger074x4]

I’m a senior in highschool and am so bummed that we don’t have automotive anything or wood shop.

[@CarswithNash]

Big surprise Rabbit was a bad boy lol! Good stuff!👍

[@matthew_mayo]

I love robs voice

[@dumpgodby1874]

Rabbit I graduated in 91 and was in the career center. I took autobody as well. Now I work in a fiberglass factory and we make the facia for ambulances and firetrucks and military vehicles and head light bars for school buses. I do the body work and I paint as we all single stage paint. And the only thing that hasn't changed is sexy women and hotrod cars trucks and motorcycles. And this model makes me feel like a dirty old man. And that's alright. I do know when I turn 55 and my shirt be half buttoned up I will be 55 year old pervert ..lol.

[@josephboley]

I took carpentry in votech in highschool and JROTC. My son is 15 years old and he said they don't have votech or JROTC anymore. School sucks even more now.

[@Turbo-smokey]

My favorite youtube voice!!!! Greetz from belgium!

[@chasejones3456]

I live in northern Michigan and we have a pretty sweet program up here. When you get to your junior year in high school you can opt to go to a Tech Center. You earn your high school credits while you earn partial college credits through the program. There's about 40 types of programs to choose from. You share the classes with actual college students with industry trained teachers. Graduated with a partial undergraduate degree with two years of machine tool and blueprinting experience. That was in 2002 so don't know if that's even still available.

[@mph5896]

Nice, I went to TBA (high school Tech center in T.C) in 97 for construction trades. Fun times. I do feel sorry for the person who bought the house we built. Now I am one of the people in charge of a hospital. Crazy how things worked out.

[@chasejones3456]

@@mph5896 that's exactly the place I'm referring to. I went for machine tool

[@JONSDIYM]

I applied late to my vo-ed, along with my buddies. The only option available was Industrial Electronics & Motor Control. I got a job with a small Electrical company while still in high school. I am 40 and ended up a Nuclear Electrician. Makes me smile every time I look back at how things transpired. I wanted to take welding. I still would like to learn how to weld. Lmfbo

[@olikat8]

My most unusual "High school hustle?" I worked my 16th &17th summers in Alaska commercial fishing on a purse seine boat with my Uncle Ole. To this day the crazy S...

[@MrROTD]

My High School auto shop class was amazing, they didnt have much resouces so the classroom part of it was the most important I skipped out the last 40 minutes as there was nothing going on but if you did practical stuff you had to bring your own car or whatever, I swapped a 440 cc engine into a 250 cc snowmobile chassis LOL

[@electricwork3155]

Thanks RP ......great vlog👍🏻

[@roberthill3207]

Love ya Rabbit thank you for excellent content have a great day.

[@sporty196071]

They had a great auto shop in high school when I was growing up if it wasn't for that there'd be a lot less good mechanics out there I graduated in 1978 now I see my old high school they closed it all down I don't know what they did with all that good auto equipment and hoists and tools they had their I guess they don't have many programs in school anymore maybe that's why all these youngsters are so different good stories see you next time rabbit

[@dadmodz128]

Always a favorite! Damn pandemic!!! 🔥

[@acrvids]

This is one of those videos that I had to keep starting over because I was laughing so hard that I couldn't pay attention to the rest of the story. LOL this was good!

[@JustcallmeGnarly22]

I did auto mechanics at the local Community College back in 2010. Shop teacher was an actual mechanic and was cool as shit. Didn't learn much but I met some of the coolest people. Miss those days.

[@correyy]

Rob you are the man! I hope to meet you one day.

[@yotafan174]

A afternoon treat.

[@johnalbach5605]

Funniest story you ever told ,your the best

[@highsierra3500]

I was kicked out of auto shop also. I grew up in a racing family so I already knew quite a bit, shop teacher didn’t like that I called out his bs everyday so he shipped me haha went to carpentry afterwards making cutting boards out of tobacco sticks.

[@pdennis93]

Lol I have another story. I got backed into in a parking lot in the summer of 1998 (coincidentally also the year I graduated HS) n a 1991 mercury cougar. The trunk lock mechanism fell into the trunk so the key didn't work and the inertia switch tripped. I was very lucky that the car had a power trunk release in the glove compartment and I was able to get the trunk open with that to reset the switch.

[@TheBrokenLife]

Today's VINWiki was disappointing... Glad to see you saving the day, Rob!

[@kellyscars]

Don't tell Ed, but it got a thumbs down for me. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I swear it was just a damn commercial!

[@TheBrokenLife]

@@kellyscars It was indeed just a commercial, but.... I know Ed has to eat,and it's probably really good Rain X, so, no thumb down. Just happy to hear a _good_ car story now. ;)

[@ngdiytfvlhkfytdikhgvl1295]

Honestly I cant tell whats more beautiful, the car or the gorgeous model 😍 but if I had to choose I'd pick the car 😂

[@hccarder]

We used to jump the belt sander for distance in high school.

[@Carkage]

I hang out with all Chevy guys and one Dodge guy. They’re all my cousins and a couple buddies from high school. We talk so much crap to each other like “yeah your LT1 Trans Am might be faster than my 2V 4.6 Tbird today. But next week when you’re tearing that thing down for the 3rd time or rebuilding your rear end for the 10th time my little “Thunderturd” is faster for that week because at least mine is running and can do at least a mile an hour.” But the best one I like to tell them is they all know how to fix stuff and I don’t as much so of course I have to say “I don’t know how to fix stuff because I drive a Ford they don’t break. I know how to make stuff fast” and none of them have took advantage of the opening I leave of “yeah because Fords ain’t fast “

[@waitemc]

A certain high school in Louisville ky. had the best booth and frame rack in the city. Legend has it that a many of Hooters girls and strippers in a local strip club had many a paint job done at this school at night in after hours orchestrate by students.

[@jsanes4831]

A 1965 Ford Fairlane 500 was the first car I went 120 in. Lol

[@ejbrandt9736]

We made Kung Fu Stars.....HA! HA! So did we....Back in the Mid-70's and in Electronics we learned how to parallel 2 lab power supplies together to create a HIGH VOLTAGE source to EXPLODE capacitors we buried outside the lab doors. Its a crying shame all the "vocational programs" have been put to the wayside....basically because of the huge expense of running a program like that.....Maybe things can change.....My Auto Shop & Metal shop teachers were kind of "goofs" but, they tried their best. My Auto Shop teacher used to talk about his "bad azz" 6 cylinder early Falcon that he had to put a "Sprint" axel under because it was so powerful....HA! I was tooling around in a $1400 70 Cougar Eliminator with a Boss 302 four speed thanks to the pricing just after the 1st gas shortage of the 1970's....You could buy a Road Runner or GTO for under $1000 for a while....No one wanted gas guzzlers. Solved that problem by working in a Chevron station during those times.

[@tuckerreda1759]

Man o man I would've KILLED to have those opportunities/options for elective classes in high school (I'm class of 2004...we had jack diddly)

[@Freundm30117]

When I took auto mechanics class, we had a girl in class exactly like your model. I didn’t learn shit until she graduated mid year!

[@CooterELee]

The principal got my num chucks back in 98 but they never got my broad sword. I still have it out in the scrap trailer, lol

[@Fitch93]

Fuck Yeah, Class of 98!

[@MrRShoaf]

When I heard that the State of California was phasing out all of thier shop classes, I thought it was nuts. Time suggets that opinion was correct. When ever the topic comes up with us old guys, the general consensus is that shop was the best part of high school. My kids only had a limited exposure to shop classes ans we lived in a rural area, the shop classes were under the umbrella of Ag classes. The other parts of the state were not so lucky. I think we ought to reverse this stupidity.

[@brandonbibber8231]

Love the vids keep it up rob

[@ABArsenal]

i went to vocational school. I took computer information tech and digital media arts. wound up working in construction lol. they were still going strong in 2012

[@bradrussell8523]

I graduated in 02 and they didn't have body shop class only mechanic class I restore cars for a living now

[@judgegixxer]

We jacked our woodworking teacher's squarebody's rear axle up just enough to lift the tires 1mm off the pavement after we saw it in some movie. We watch him (from 2nd story window) have a meltdown in the cab and then storm back into the school to use the phone to call a tow truck. While he was doing that we went out and lowered it again. Teach goes back out and meets tow truck guy who backs up to it, hooks it up by the rear and pulls it away rolling on it's front wheels to the local GM dealer. That was a friday. On monday one of the boys asks him why he drove his car instead of the truck to school and he sez "the transmission shit the bed....it's at the dealer getting a new transmission".

[@azmax623]

in the rental car world, when the cars were being cleaned, we'd take the lug wrench and hit the inertia switch on the Crown Vics and Town cars to shut them down. most of the time the guy cleaning the car couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start.

[@aliassmithandjones9453]

I graduated in `81- back when Rabbit was just a twinkle in his daddy's eye :)

[@questionable8158]

I’m taking an automotive shop class. It’s kinda boring at times but I’ll get ASE certified by the time I graduate.

[@chevylandt.v]

I had a votech my freshman year and they took it away to turn it into a economical school which sucks because its half ass. I was going to take it all four years like automatics and welding but only one year of welding.

[@roberthill3207]

I was convinced and brought home in a 1969 firebird i blame that for my car obsession. Have a great day everyone

[@Hillbilly_Bob.J]

Hahaha rabbit heat& air is how i make my living.. not a great one but not a horrible one!!

[@slimwilly573]

I'm not sure where u were going with the whole "red like..." but hanging around with my older friends and my grandpa then that phrase would have ended with "red as a dog's ...." well I'm not gonna finish it on here but you get the idea lol red rocket

[@robfox4316]

Nice vid, good stories. Glad to hear what people did for fun before social media sissified the kids.

[@tnmoe-]

Frig, the only shop class we had was woodworking, I wish we had car stuff.

[@evilbeaver267]

Thanks for the content 🐇

[@ricardomendez4106]

Foothills Career Center in Mr. Romano's class. Hooking up systems in all of our buddies cars. Getting yelled at for not doing brakes or whatever the assignment was. BTW is it T Diddy Hawkins?

[@1BrianSawyer]

10:19 My Thunderbirds had inertia switches. If you could hit a pot hole hard enough, you could make one pop hahaha

[@christysonaroll1570]

The line that always annoyed my teachers Those who can't do, teach 🤣🤣

[@mikeyadrick5154]

My thing was woodshop--Great! You and I do not want to see the Vocational Schools go away! This would be like society Shootin themselves in Both Feet. You must have influence in your county, Push on those schools. We need those trades. Have a Great Day Rob---Mikey in Sequim

[@ewanebbs4796]

That c1 In the back looking good

[@josephfarler4802]

“Couldn’t have happened to a better person” 😂😂

[@artysmotorsports]

Ford guys hang together cause nobody wants to talk to them... That's a line I gotta tell my kids 😂

[@mrbobsshow]

Yea a new Rabbit video Now how many times will he say PANDEMIC??

[@rabbits_used_cars]

Pandemic!!!!

[@oldscoolcooldiecast1879]

Had wood shop for a year but it was a joke to be honest we made tic taco toe boards and other type wood games and here I was thinking we would be building a boat or furniture or even a small portable cabin or something

[@jeremyeubanks2387]

Man I love that car

[@stackenali7059]

High school. Hot chick thumbnail. Rob Pitt's. Equals instant click.

[@donnywilcox3963]

Tiger stripe aka as modeling ....mitalic silver horrible for it ...one my favorite colors on a car is "Cortez Silver" friend if mine dad had a 87 SS Monte Carlo that came factory "Cortez Silver" with black stripes ....loved that car ....

[@Blue_Flame_Raptor]

Looks like rabbit has the Fordowner virus

[@randomdude01988]

In in high school and I do an auto body class but the difference is my teacher actually teaches

[@seangabel5824]

They cancelled my school districts vocational training. They replaced it with gender studies and sociology. Very helpful for learning how to fix a Pontiac

[@chloehennessey6813]

I’ll be in high school next year. Gonna need to post a Rabbits Advice for Freshwwomen.

[@Galahad_Actual]

last time I was this early, Rob was stilling doing comedy and on vinwiki.

[@mromatic17]

Rabbit you’re damn near my doppelgänger! I seriously look like your younger brother!

[@nathanielheidemann3112]

Vocational school is going away? It's getting bigger up here in NY

[@johnfredo8202]

Hey Rob how would you recommend registering a vehicle during these times? DMV's closed, asking for a friend.. 😁

[@bvcxz47]

I went to a body shop class with a teacher that couldn't teach but he was a damn good bodyman.

[@GS-sm3jo]

RIP Rabbit 🙏

[@toddclarke7889]

I went to school for the same. I have written estimates for the last 25 years. Blah for the insurance co.

[@fordblue2257]

Of course i know about the inertia switch all too well

[@Tcrim354]

The backbone of American Education is Career and Technology.