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Members of the British Auto Touring Society visited Central Carolina Community College's Automotive Restoration Technology program at the Emergency Services Training Center, in Sanford, March 3. They learned about the training being done there, including work on a 1958 Ford Thunderbird (center, back). Central Carolina has the only Automotive Restoration Technology program in the North Carolina Community College System. Society members, most of whom are Moore County residents, are enthusiastic about British-made vintage and classic automobiles and enjoy restoring and showing them. The visitors found people after their own hearts in auto restoration instructors Billy Eubanks (from right, front) and Chuck Mann, who both love restoring vintage vehicles, including British-made ones. Society member who visited were (clockwise from front, left) Nancy Sadler, Mike Carroll, Jack Zimmerman, Jack Sadler, and Pat Zimmerman, all of Pinehurst; Jay Farfalla, of Whispering Pines; Jack Norton, of Seven Lakes West; David Zolov, of Pinehurst; Ruthann Norton, of Seven Lakes West; and Noreen Casavant, of Pinehurst. Not pictured are Eleanor Zolov and Roger Casavant, of Pinehurst; and Owen Gallagher, of Aberdeen. For more information about the British Auto Touring Society, contact the Sadlers at jacksadler@earthlink.net. For more information about CCCC's Auto Restoration program, visit www.cccc.edu and click on "Programs of Study."