NEWS RELEASE
Rich Evans Visits Pike-Lincoln Tech Center
Rich Evans, an All-Star custom car team leader on Car Warriors,
as seen on the SPEED Channel, visited Pike-Lincoln Technical
Center (PLTC) on Friday, November 11. He has been featured on
multiple television programs including SPEED’s long-running
Chop, Cut, Rebuild. Evans has worked on cars for several celebrities
such as David Letterman, Gary Busey, Ice-T, and John Singleton.
Our Auto Collision Tech instructor, Denny Stewart, worked with
Evans in California years ago and this summer made contact with
him. Rich has already donated $2000 worth of training DVDs to
Stewart’s program and agreed to visit our school to share
his knowledge and story with our Auto Collision students. He
hopes he was able to instill in them that they too can succeed
in the auto body field.
His story is one of growing up doing something he loved. He
was helping manage an auto body shop at age 16 and started his
own business a short time later. Evans has since become world-renowned
for building custom cars with exceptionally unique, airbrushed
designs. As Denny Stewart puts it, “Having Rich visit
Pike-Lincoln’s Auto Collision classes is like Bill Gates
coming to speak with students in our computer classes.”
During his time with the students at PLTC, Evans shared a few
of his beliefs for life and his career. In regard to setting
high goals, he said “Shoot for the stars and hit the moon
and life will be good.” He shared with the students that
they need to be lifelong learners as cars change every year.
Along those lines he said, “If you don’t learn something
new every day, it’s a wasted day.”
He asked the students what they thought he liked the most about
his job. After numerous students guessed, he said “it’s
that I get paid to practice on other people’s cars.”
He shared with the students that he hasn’t worked a day
in his life as he found something he enjoyed doing so much it
doesn’t feel like work.
Evans gave each student a black, Rich Evans Designs t-shirt.
During his visit he spent time with the students in their shop
giving them pointers and assisting on a ’69 Chevy Chevelle
custom (restoration) job and an ’08 Honda Civic collision
repair job. He expressed he was pleased to see the students
were getting exposed to both custom and collision work in our
program.
The morning Auto Collision students with their Rich Evans t-shirts.
Evans is in the middle pointing.
From left to right, Denny Stewart, PLTC’s Auto Collision
instructor, Dylan Akins, a Bowling Green HS student, and Rich
Evans discussing an aspect of a restoration job on a ’69
Chevy Chevelle.
Rich Evans offering tips to second-year afternoon students working
on an ’08 Honda Civic job
Evans demonstrating technique to students working on an ’08
Honda Civic
Auto Collision afternoon students pose with
Rich Evans (pointing) in their new Rich Evans Designs t-shirts
