Fifteen Of My Mechanics Spent Four Days On That Engine. A Sixteen-Year-Old Asked One Question About The Weather And Found It In Five Minutes. Then I Looked Inside His Toolbox

I put five thousand dollars in cash on the steel bench in front of fifteen of my own mechanics and told them whoever got her running could keep it. It had been four days. It was over ninety degrees in that shed. And the person who stepped forward out of the back of the crowd was a sixteen-year-old boy in a dirty shirt whose name not one man in my shop could have told me.