Newbie here starting my first A body

My son and I bonded over cars. The one we worked on together when he was in high school was a graduation gift to him when he got out of college a couple years ago. He's now doing a complete restore on it. He was home this past week and we worked together on my Dart for hours. It was so much fun- like the old days.

Enjoy the time with her. Have patience and let her do a lot of the work as you teach and guide her. It's faster if you do it all yourself but you won't have the same memories and neither will she. Take your time.

I let my son drive the car he has now to football practice once in high school. Horsing around on the way out of the parking lot he ran over a curb and pretzelled the right lower C.A. and bent the K member. Guess who did ALL the work repairing it? At the time, seniors were required to do a "Senior Project" in order to graduate. It had to involve learning something new to you as long as it was self-improvement. Then you had to present it in front of a panel of teachers and parents who rated you on it. So many points and you could graduate. Many kids volunteered as assistant coaches for middle schools or learned guitar or worked in retirement homes or learned plumbing and worked with a contractor on a project - things like that. If you blew it off, you had ample time and tries to complete it. His was learning how to replace the entire front suspension (and K member) on a 1974 Plymouth Satellite. I supervised but he already knew enough (because he had helped me put in a Just Suspension kit six months earlier!) to do all the work. He did all the research if he had questions. After too much pressure from whining parents who felt it was too much work for their "overworked" seniors many of whom only had class until noon, they did away with the senior project two years later after it had been successful for years and years.

I hope your daughter has the same learning experience although not the driving lesson...Have fun!