Not enough younger people in this hobby...

I LOVE those parts sitting i n Blue Dreams bedroom floor!! LOL

I congratulate the young person that has the drive to work on an old car, to make it his means of transportation, and not wait for someone to provide it for him!

yes, everything is expensive! and not going to hardly get cheaper? new vehicles? they never have been anything but an expense. payments, high insurance, taxes, ... people that have the income to go out and pay as much for a new car or truck as what it used to cost for a home!? nuts! then find out it is just a throw away vehicle. designed to use up and throw away.

lets face it. our old cars are vehicles anyone with a little mechanical instinct can learn to work on. in general, parts for these old cars are way cheaper than parts for newer stuff. if under a budget, common sense goes a long way. get the car driving, s afe, and dependable. no need to spend $$ on making it faster until its affordable. fancy wheels. ??? maybe learn to fix the rust first?

when I drag home a project I have a system. first, make a list of any missing parts to be on the lookout for. ( parts are cheaper when your not in a hurry!)..always best to buy a complete project. if not running, get it running and see what I have for a drivetrain. always best to buy a running car so you know what you are buying.. if I paid $400 for it, I don't expect it to run. if I paid $800-1000 for it.
yes I do.

then make it a driver. brakes, u joints, radiator, decent tires, exhaust. is the front suspension safe??? a certain expense here, but lets say exhaust. it goes to local country garage where they bend their pipes. no ordering the pre bent stuff from ??. budget? muffler? does it have to have an $80 muffler????NO

engine? I as talking to older guy like myself out in okla other day. he has pretty decent collection of cars ( keepers). he never has in his 40 years in the salvage business had an engine rebuilt. he always found a decent engine. . nice to have a fresh engine with all new stuff, maybe upgraded to have some more power, necessary? NO

interior? a decent front seat. the rest is fluff! door panels, a luxury. headliner? clean the metal and spray a layer of body schultz on it. later when affordable, interior??
paint? learn to fabricate and use patch panels. get the body solid, get it to bare metal and self etch, epoxy primer. seal it. you learn how and do it.

like the other guy said, ..... young people, don't just learn to trade your time for $$, learn to do things, learn what could become a trade if you want, learn to do these things yourself, and not just figure one day, you will get take the car to the pro and pay him big bucks to do it>

drive it!!!

this was rant from old mopar fart.