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Someday, Your Classic Car Will Need a Technician.

We Need More Skilled Technicians

There is no substitute for the experience of driving a classic car. But keeping them maintained, let alone restoring one, requires a community of skilled craftspeople. But that community is shrinking. This is where the Piston Foundation comes in.

Piston Provides Education and Job Opportunities

Piston is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that helps kids learn to become collector car technicians. Since 2022, we’ve awarded 53 tech-school scholarships to future technicians and 10 of our Piston Scholars are now working at classic car shops across the industry. We’re just getting started.

Your Support Makes It Possible

Young people are interested in skilled trades, they just need access to the education, training, job opportunities that teach these in-demand skills.

So, if you want your classic to speed into the future, please make a donation to our scholarship program today.

No one gets to the finish line alone.

Make a Big Impact

Over the past two years, we’ve awarded scholarships to a diverse group of talented and deserving students who are pursuing careers as classic car technicians.

The high cost of education and limited access to hands-on training makes it difficult for young car enthusiasts to enter into the auto restoration trades. Together, we can help aspiring technicians overcome these barriers and put them on a career path into the collector car industry.

You can ensure the future of collector cars. 

A lot of the technicians right now are retiring and there’s a lot of knowledge that’s not being passed down. […] The younger generation is the gap that needs to be filled to keep the industry alive and keep these cars on the road.”— Zoe Carmichael, 2022 Piston Scholar

Financial Transparency

We are proud to have received a Platinum Transparency seal from Candid in our third year of operations. We embrace our responsibility to steward the gifts of our donors for the greatest possible impact.

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