Think you are smart enough to be an automotive repair tech?

[Texas Mac Man]

Watch this auto Dealership Training Video to see if you have the “smarts” to be an automotive repair technician.  

[gunug]

With any kind of luck maybe I'll still have a job and a lot of them might be out of work soon!  I tore down and rebuilt a 1956 Chevy Belair in the early 1970's when I was a kid.  I didn't do it alone but I did a lot of the work.  I worked on cars myself, whatever I could handle with the tools and advice on hand, through about 1979 or so and then stopped because a lot of feed back circuits and vacuum lines made it harder for me than I could deal with at that time.  I'm not a great mechanic but I do alright with some things!

[krissel]

"It's a simple head code, anyone can catch it"

"For the purpose of obscurity..."


I think this guy would be right at home in Congress. Doubletalk and government-speak are hard to tell apart.  

[Xairbusdriver]

Reminded me of the more modern, and much more technical, IMHO, <Rockwell Retro Encabulator>. However, it does have some similar concepts...Frankly, I suspect MS may be looking at purchasing this company as a way of displaying its innovation skills!

Now, speaking of "innovative!" Have any of you ladies or spouses wives seen this amazing product???

[tacit]

BWAH! That's awesome!

The turboencabulator has a long and interesting history. It's a completely bogus device that first popped up in a fake technical document in 1946, and since then it's appeared in all sorts of unlikely places.

Back in the 70s, I played a computer text adventure game called "Dogstar" on the TRS-80; Dogstar was a science fiction game, and part of the adventure revolved around finding a working turboencabulator to fix the broken one on the player's spaceship.

Part of the YouTube video quotes directly from the phony 1946 technical spec for the turboencabulator, which appears here. There's another YouTube video that also quotes the original text here. A PDF of the original tech spec sheet is here, and a parody tech spec for a competing product, the Retroencabulator, is http://www.prc68.com/I/DRTE.shtmlhere</a>. You can also find a phony history of the development of the turboencabulator, and there's even a techno song called "turboencabulator".

[Xairbusdriver]

Yes, that link to the "phony history" is obviously fake. Very quickly one reads the following:

QUOTE

With the project now rudderless, GE sold the rights to the turboencabulator to Rockwell in 1974.

Everyone familiar with this device knows there was never a "rudder" in it! What kind of engineer would try to foist the idea of a "rudder," whatever that would be. Just another example of "elite engineers" discounting the intelligence of the masses!

And thanks for the link to the <http://www.prc68.com/I/DRTE.shtml> site. I've bookmarked that for further study, great list of sources there!