Maybe you can ask your instructor if you can bring in your personal vehicle.
Our school had a very complete autoshop. Body shop, machine shop, 4 hoists, 2 tune-up bays. A bay just for welding & fabrication. The auto shop could do anything from tune-ups, to engine, tranny, & rear-end rebuilds. We even had a course for 'industrial plastics', where we learned how to make anything, from making fiberglass molds so we could make body parts, all the way up to having a mold for a Vega Funny Car.
So complete was the shop, that the school had it's own 1/4 mile race car. Built in the school from scratch. We had to have B+ or better grades to be a member. Tow-pig, trailer & car. Test & tune every Wednesday @ the track. Raced every 2 weeks,
I had a '69 Chevelle that was a high mileage beater. I bought it in early grade 11. By the end of grade 12, it was running high 12's/low 13's @ about 110mph. All built in the school's shop. Many days of the week, we never left until 10 pm. Like I said before, one of the few classes that I really applied myself to. But then my Dad was a mechanic, so I've had a wrench in my hand since I can remember, (My Sis still has a scar from where I wacked her with a 1" spanner, @ the age of 5.) so I wasn't totally green. I knew a hell of a lot more by the end of school.
Don't know what your school's shop is like, but if it's 1/2 of what our's was like, there should be no reason why you can't transform your truck into a personal statement that is like no other. If your teacher's are anything like the ones I had, they will encourage you every step of the way & help you realize the truck of your dreams.
