Engine teardown labs at most trade schools run on whatever turned up: old blocks, salvage-yard castoffs, and engines whose tech was out of date before the students were born. South Plains College’s Lubbock automotive program just got newer material. Scoggin-Dickey Chevrolet-Buick donated four GM 5.3L V8s to the program on Sept. 14 at SPC’s Career and Technical Center.
A relationship that goes back decades
This isn’t a one-time photo op. John Zwiacher, Scoggin-Dickey’s dealer principal, arranged the donation and has served on the advisory board for SPC’s automotive program for 35 years. His father-in-law, John Scoggin, helped start the program in the 1970s…