This curriculum resource guide on automotive maintenance is one of a series of seventeen specialized curriculum guides for occupational education of the marginal, handicapped, or special needs occupational education student. The guide begins with six behavior clusters that contain a series of forty-two instructional topics designed to teach job-required behavior skills in areas common to all employment: accuracy and productivity, initiative and perseverance on the job, positive response to direction and supervision, regularity and punctuality, self-reliance and reliability, and work tolerance. Learning activities and performance objectives are included for each topic. The remainder of the guide is comprised of job modules for the following: batteryman, brakedrum-lathe operator, brakeman, exhaust system parts changer, lubrication man, new car get-ready man, service station attendant, and shock absorber installer. Each job module begins with a job description followed by instructional activities and a performance objective for each of eighty-five instructional topics. Also included are appropriate personal appearance topics. (LRA)