{"id":3666,"date":"2018-10-25T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/?p=3666\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T08:20:43","slug":"my-other-school-stephen-griswold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/my-other-school-stephen-griswold\/","title":{"rendered":"My other School"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I have often been asked how a History and English major came to be a restorer of some of the World\u2019s finest racing cars. I have written briefly about my father who was an extreme influence on me. When I was 10 years old I went to work for the summer at his company the FT Griswold Mfg. Company in Wayne Pennsylvania. To do this I had to apply for my Social Security card. I was paid real wages albeit very little, but it was a start to a working life that was to pay real dividends later on. Dad had a high precision machine shop and we could make almost anything to a very high standard.<\/p>\n

A lot of the work was for the Department of Defense, things like alignment gauges for Patton tank barrels and the propeller heads for twin rotor Paisecki helicopters that were used extensively in the Korean War. I used to go to work every day with dad and his shop manager Phil Yanni would give me some menial cleaning job to keep me busy and out of the way. The men that worked for dad were really kind to me and could see that I had a consuming passion for all the machines and how they worked. Eventually, they started to give me some simple machining projects to get a real feel for machining.<\/p>\n

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