Feature 5
Valton: luster restored one automobile at a time
laçkamas Print
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
In
the
classroom,
though, Walton walks from
student to student, help
Walton’s love of auto-
ing each of them restore a
ibiles, however, devel-
ed many years prior to bit of the luster that their
aged cars have lost over
; time at the college. In
the years. He moves from
:t, it arose before he was
assisting an owner with
t of high school, when he
w a hot rod with which a Volkswagen Beetle that
has a little more rust than
. became enamored.
they first thought, to an
“My first car was a 35
>dge pickup my dad gave old Ford coat of a vehicle
that has seen better days
me when I was 16 yedrs
1, and the first thing I and has the worn paint to
1 was chop the top off prove it.
His personable attitude
fore I was old enough
and love for
drive it,”'
his job has
said. “It
made him
sn't the
“My first car was
a favorite
st beau-
among stu
il metal
a 35 Dodge pickup
dents.
rk.”
my dad gave to
“Harold’s
From
a
real
me when I was
e re ,.
knowledge
self- ,
16 years old, and
able guy,”
scribed
the first thing I
said student
; m i -.
Jerry Foster.
tired
did was chop the
“You
can
a 1 t o n
top °ff before I
ask him any
proved
thing, and
istically
was old enough to
he’s pretty
the field
drive.”
much done
netal and
everything
t o m o -
Harold Walton
as far as
e work-,
Automotive Instructor
automotive
rec
hot
goes.”
is
that
Today,
created
teaching
/e graced
seems to be a natural fit
covers of automotives’
for Walton, and just anoth
st elite magazines, and
er skill at which he has
re have been highlight
in them. Others that
excelled, but up until a
ture his labor have sold couple of years ago, he
was simply another per-
large sums of cash.
ntinued from WALTON, Page 1
son going to
school.
“Dave
Bradley (auto
motive depart
ment
chair)
asked
me,
‘Would you be
interested in
a basic metal-,
forming class?’
he recalled. “I
said, ‘Yeah, I
would like to
take it.’ He
said, ‘No, we
would like you
to teach it.’
So I’ve been
teaching ever
since.”
But
in
Walton’s view,
’
Clackamas
isn’t merely
about its teach
ing opportunities. He still
enjoys some of the class
es that initially brought
him to the college, such
as blacksmithing, which
he describes as a metal
working process unlike the
method with tvhich he is
familiar.
Numerous instructors
at the college contribute
countless real-world expe
riences to their courses. For .
Walton’s class, it has given
students extra motivation
to work on their carsj and
in a manner that they may
have been frightened to try
on their vehicles before.
John Shufelt Clackamas Print
CONTRIBUTED
ABOVE: Harold Walton (left) hammers student Dennis
Proctor’s Volkswagon Beetle hood.
BELOW: Walton’s work helped restore this 1937 540K
Mercedes. Much of his work goes uncredited.
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