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Shane Porter knew he was dying of cancer when he one day came home with a rusty 1969 Jeepster Commando that had no seats and a shoddy engine.
He purchased the battered vehicle in 2016 as a family project to work on with his wife and their two sons, Michael and Tim, now 24 and 22. It was intended to be a bonding activity.
The family took on the project and tinkered away on the Jeepster until Shane Porter died in January 2022 at age 57, after a lengthy battle with bladder cancer and lymphoma.
The car sat there — until last May, when Bob Mauger, a longtime friend of the family, took note of it one day when he was visiting. Mauger is an automotive technology teacher at Corona High School in Corona, Calif., and when he saw the timeworn Jeep, he said, a lightbulb went on.
“This would be a good project for my students to complete,” he recalled thinking to himself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/06/jeep-mechanic-coronoa-students-porter/
He purchased the battered vehicle in 2016 as a family project to work on with his wife and their two sons, Michael and Tim, now 24 and 22. It was intended to be a bonding activity.
The family took on the project and tinkered away on the Jeepster until Shane Porter died in January 2022 at age 57, after a lengthy battle with bladder cancer and lymphoma.
The car sat there — until last May, when Bob Mauger, a longtime friend of the family, took note of it one day when he was visiting. Mauger is an automotive technology teacher at Corona High School in Corona, Calif., and when he saw the timeworn Jeep, he said, a lightbulb went on.
“This would be a good project for my students to complete,” he recalled thinking to himself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/06/jeep-mechanic-coronoa-students-porter/
