Need Help!!!

[Taylor Parrish]

Just looking for some opinions from anyone who'd like to offer. Long story short I love cars (more than I love my girlfriend) and I would love to work on them, problem is I don't know much about them. I'm not looking to work as a mechanic or anything of the short, this would be more of a personal hobby. To give you an idea a dream of mine would be to buy an old mustang and turn it into Eleanor. I just graduated from college and have plenty of free time and money to make it happen but I'm at square one as far as knowledge goes. I've considered going to UTI and have been looking into it. I'm open to all ideas, please help me out with some feed back.

[silvermonte]

My advice would be to buy a running mustang that is decent shape and then change one part out at a time. You will learn alot from first hand experience and anything you need to know you can look up on the internet. Just start on small projects and work your way up.

[ma73z]

I totally agree, buy a decent running car and don't take on more than you can do in like a weekend. If the car is disabled to long LIFE happens and you'll be in the long term jackstand class.

[raustinss]

I started reading car mags basically before the internet become so popular...1990 maybe lol...body I'm old...i learnt more since buying my chevelle which I might add I was really looking for a 69 Camaro. Then I did in any magazine. My first hand experience is way beyond anything taught in school. School teaches you facts not lessons,
Thinking and problem solving on the spot aren't. Things you can be taught ,ask questions and lots of them. This community (cars) always seems like a great group to learn from and help teach the next generation. Hell even try to volunteer at a shop or something even if it's sweeping the floor. You can learn processes,time management and how things go together by just watching others work
Good luck and keep us updated
Ryan Austin

[Vince@Meanstreets]

Where do you live?

[clill]

Buy a used car you like and have fun learning on it but don't tear it apart yet. Also you could look into adult ed classes.