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**RS Wood[_2_]**

wrote:

> Done just about all of it.

You may be the only lucky one here!

> My painting left a bit to be desired, and
> I don't really like rust repair bodywork.

Nobody expects a home job to be as good as the pros, but it still would be
nice to do.

> I've installed AC, installed
> oversized brakes, totally rebuilt a few cars - engine, suspension,
> electrics - the works. I've done some automatic trans work - but never
> a FULL rebuild.

I was thinking manual. An automatic might be too much for a home job due to
the potential equipment requirement. For a manual, all you need is a good
jack, some tools for tight places, clutch alignment tool, snapring pliers,
and everything else you probably already have.

> What I'd really LIKE to do is build a complete car from scratch - but
> after taking 16 years on the plane, and it's not done yet - at 65 that
> likely won't happen

I'm older than you, so I know what you mean that it probably will never
happen. We lost our chance.

I too would love to have built my "own" car, which, by that, I mean I would
have taken my very first car or maybe one of the cars from the 60s, or 70s,
or maybe as late as the 80s, and then rebuilt it "my way", whatever that
would mean, such that it would be unique.

My advice to a kid in his twenties or thirties would be to save the car he
likes best, probably it's a simple one, manual, inline six perhaps, and
then just learn it, work it, and repair it, and make it what you want it to
be.