Young Person Rant

[06RangerSTX]

So many fantastic ideas! I know quite a bit of information on cars like statistics but where I fall short is technical knowledge... I have taken apart many cars but have not a good track record on getting things back together. I am a person who likes a project, but I also love to drive! so taking decades to build a car is not something I feel like I would enjoy. I had my last project for almost 3 years only to have my wife ask me when I was going to get rid of the piece of junk car. So I may have to start with something a little newer like a camaro/firebird or fox body mustang. I do kick myself because I could have bought a 1994 Pontiac firebird V-6 for $250 dollars... it even ran but I could have down the road drop in a LT1 or even LS1. Unfortunately at the time I did not have access to a garage to store or work on the car. I did find a 1979 Chevy Camaro Z-28 for $1200 that looked almost complete and in good condition.
I have always been a person who loves hotrods as I wanted my first car to be a 1948 Dodge truck, but I ended up with a 1981 Canary Yellow Chevy LUV truck with the 1.8L 4-speed.
I live in Columbus Ohio so the Goodguys Nationals are always something that I love to do. I have never had the finances to even attend the event until about 2 years ago. I love browsing through the vendors area to see what hot new parts and cars there are. It is actually one of my dreams to be able to attend and participate at the Goodguys Nationals someday. The only issue is that they are still under the older format of 1972 and older cars. Which of course does not help any budget that I could have to build a car. I may try to make it out to Indy Goodguys some year since they are allowing newer cars compete in the event.
I hear you on the Corvette idea! I at one point thought about buying an 02 or 03 model Z06 as they are factory track setup, but all of a sudden the prices have gone through the roof for the C5 vettes... I used to be able to find the early years for almost $10k but now they have doubled in price.


I find projects like this that could be a decent start of a project especially for this price!
http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/5083733877.html

Or something like this?
http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/5046175534.html