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Teen Car Repair

Charlie Mayer reports on the 1996 Student Auto Skills National Quality Care Challenge. The Quality Care Challenge was held this past Monday on The Mall in Washington. D.C. Josh Garrison and Josh Lamb of Paris, Texas won the competition, beating forty-nine other teams from the United States and one exhibition team from Canada. The Quality Care Challenge is an annual event in which the best high school automotive technicians in the country race against the clock to repair identically "bugged" automobiles. (3:30) ((ST

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