My 5-yr-old son running a 3" Griots DA

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I'm a proud papa!

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cleanmycorolla said:
How much are you going to pay him for his help? :) haha. Very cool!
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His attention span is about 15 minutes for this stuff right now, but when he's a little older and understands money I'll start paying him like $3-5/hr. When he shows the skill and maturity, I'll turn the business over to him if he wants.

My goal with my detailing business is to give him, and any other of my kids (the other two are girls and may not care), the opportunity to learn work ethic, pride of workmanship, dealing with clients, business operation, etc. so they have the skills in their own endeavors. I have other businesses and have always been business-minded and figure my kids may be the same way, so I want them to have a head start.
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
That is so awesome!


Thanks for sharing and enjoy these days....



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My dad passed away when I was just over 4, and he always talked about having a car that he could work on with me. My step-dad was awesome with me and liked cars, but wasn't one to get into fixing things up or rebuilding and modifying like my dad was. My dad built a dune buggy from scratch. His brother can tear apart a whole car and put it back together again, even though his occupation was pharmacist for the first half of his life and network administrator until he retired.

Getting this car back was a dream come true, as I wanted to have a fun car we could work on together. I've been flying high all week. For those who didn't catch my post about finding this car, it's also in the "off topic" page. In a nutshell, I had the car for over 3 years, during which I met, dated, married my wife and even took our favorite wedding picture in it. I sold it for money reasons, always wanted it back, and just found it for sale on Monday morning and bought it Tuesday night. The seller, who bought it from me, had approached me a few years ago to see if I wanted to buy it back, so I thought it was already gone to a new home.
 
Very nice!! How do you like the GG 3"?

I've got my five year old doing oil changes.

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And preparing to race dragsters.

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Already signing autographs LOL
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604_Snooze said:
Is he using the meg MF DA system?
I got to get the 3"GG DA sometime.
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Yep. D300 Correction Compound with the Megs MF cutting pad. The 3" buffer doesn't have nearly as much torque as the full size, and I have it on about speed 3, so he's really not cutting much. Just building his confidence, and he loves helping Daddy!

He came out while I was working on it just about an hour ago and asked to help so I let him compound the lower door panel where all the rock chips are and he can't really make it any worse. He does really well, except he gets impatient and starts moving it around too fast and tilting it.

I hope to finish compounding shortly and get at least some M205/rotary done before bedtime. I'm following that with 85RD and we'll see about the LSP...
 
D.Acker said:
Very nice!! How do you like the GG 3"?

I've got my five year old doing oil changes.

And preparing to race dragsters.
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Ha- that's awesome. I think when kids get the chance to try things when they're really young, they don't have as much fear trying new things later. It gives them so much confidence that they can do things that big people can.

The 3" GG works fine, though it doesn't have enough torque for some defects so I put the 3" plate on the regular GG. I pretty much use the 3" GG for real tight spaces that the regular GG can't reach like parts of door jambs, license plate wells, bumper light wells, etc.
 
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