Im 32 and i have had my shop for five years letting who i want use it so its not denial its confidence that i can handle the problems. As nice as i am im also 6'6" and have beat the hell out of or had locked up everybody that has tsole from me . Macon is not as big as atlanta so besides a few batterys (which i did catch the guys and have locked up) i have gotten back everything stole from my shop . Its called knowing alot of people and having alot of respect . Does sockets get lost and a wrench here and there of course thats why i spent about 2,000 on shit the other day just to organize stuff were when a job is finished it can be put back were it goes so you can tell what your missing .

If you guys thing im trying to have a bunch of young guys in a car club to be cool and give them the ring of all my tools and my shop when im not there then you got the wqrong idea. If anybody on here pmed me and asked right now for me to teach them how to paint there car id tell them be glad to show them and this would be no different . I have a few friends that are as talented as i am and know how to paint a car and build motors that have espressed the intrest in helping people also .

I think you are imagining a bunch of kids up there all night drinking using my shit , changing transmissions ,asking for trouble . I am not that nieve or stupid by any means . When mainstream has a dyno day and everybody gets together ,cooks out has a great time why cant somebody do that say once a month call it a car club while offering to let your members learn something at the same time ?

I would think having twenty people always standing around a dyno all the time would be alot more liability then what im suggesting. Im sure you think its not because scottie is there or james is there well same thing will happen at my shop me or one of the few close friends that i have will have to be there . My tools stay locked up like i said they can use my speacilty tools . Its not hard to miss a welder or a porta power shit like that . Im not lending my sockets and shit that cost 20 a piece for everybody to use . Trust me the guys that work for me lose enough of them alone i dont need any more gone .

When i was 17-18 there was around ten or fifteen of use that was really close and we did our car shit weither it was hydrolics or building a honda we helped each other. I dont see that any more maybe see two friends that help other not hardly any groups . I beleive if you give them something to be apart of which could actually have nothing to do with the shop just a properly run car club that actually did shit that people would cling to it .