Student Run Newspaper for McPherson College
By Tara Feeney Some project cars are true labors of love, like Henry McDonough’s 1978 Volvo 242. For nearly four years, he’s been restoring, fabricating, and modifying almost every aspect of the car. McDonough, who began the project before starting college, has always admired Volvo’s utilitarian design and styling. To start, he bought the car…
By Mason Duffey While there are a lot of car enthusiasts in the industry who prefer to do a pristine restoration and trailer their car from one car show to the next, there are also enthusiasts who have a passion for simply driving their classics. Student Noah Huls is in the latter group; he’s not concerned with…
By Mason Duffey Many of the students in the automotive restoration program have gained their love for classic cars over the years from all kinds of places, such as toys they played with when they were kids or from a tv show they watched that inspired them. Some of the students seemed to have been…
By Andrew Tanner It is a well-known fact around campus that there are lots of unique old cars owned by the automotive restoration students. It is a lesser-known fact that there are perhaps even more unique old cars stuffed away in storage units near campus, awaiting repairs to be presented at the annual car show….