and how did it turn out! Im looking at a project to work on with my son hes 15 want to get something like a early Escort or Cortina ( had a mk1 cortina years back ). just wanting feed back on how other people projects have turned out esp. father/son combos.
jmma,
May 24, 7:19pm
Its great, but at 15 he may loss interest quickly
toxicgreen.,
May 24, 7:49pm
Escort would be my pick,Japa 4 cylinder complete and a runner for $6-800 including loom/comp will keep his interest cause that will be progress(interacting in auto trade will result in a no go car,lost $ and lost interest)
grangies,
May 24, 7:56pm
Good luck in finding an early Cortina or Escort.
Escorts and Cortina's are either mint and expensive, or totally buggered all round ( rust, engine, rubbers, interior, gearbox, brakes etc etc etc )
You'd be better off buying an old Mercedes.
grangies,
May 24, 8:11pm
Crikey dick! LOL.
YIKES!
gunhand,
May 24, 8:11pm
The problem with alot of the young fellas these days is all they think "doin up" a car is throughing some gauges on the dash or A piller, putting blue hoses in the engine bay, gluing scoops on the bonnet, bolting a wing on, putting checker plate everywhere and of course the huge stero system that never really seems to work properly and the 6x9s are just sitting on the parcel tray waitng to kill or maim there girlfriend/boyfriend or themselves if they crash. Oops almost forgot stickers on the gaurds. Now we cant balme them and if thats the trend (blame F&F 1,2,3,4) so be it and good on them. But getting a 15 yo into the garage to lift a motor out or sand a car will be a push unless you lock up all froms of media and comunication. Some young fellas have grown up with rodders/street machineers and may take to to it well My 6 year old used to love helping do anything on the bike I was doing but then he found bloody playstation and would rather do that. I kick his/there arses outside on good days tho and dont let them play it all day. My 10 yo just found hammer and nails lol, now ive got odd dangerous structures lying about the lawn. Hes also done some sanding on the old XE panelvan im attempting to tidy up for not a lot for the nephew. He showed interest in that untill he decided t was abit hard lol.
lugee,
May 24, 8:16pm
damn, my granddad has an absolute mint 70's Cortina sitting in the garage, 1 owner, still runs like it was fresh from the factory.
for_an_angel,
May 24, 8:28pm
Project car he said not a minta lol
r15,
May 24, 9:27pm
KE35 corolla SR
every young fulla loves a good old rwd corolla - the SR is a whole lot less common, though a lot of parts are still available new
but only if he's keen as.
ginga4lyfe,
May 25, 4:51am
Maybe a BMW 2002 to work on, just as easy to fix up as the esky, but worth more at the end of the day , ( and its easyer to put later running gear into it to make it nice and reliable )
otherwise, Iv always bought cars with the idea that it would be a nice project and maybe dad will help me on it. but nah. he doesnt even like offering advice, his heart just isnt in it anymore, kinda sad. coz it forced me to learn about stuff like mechanical and electrics by myself before i learned it in school and Tech
pollymay,
May 25, 6:52am
My dad helped me build an old dirt track/rally car back when I was 15 cause he said NZ road testing for your licence was hopeless. Bought a $300 mr2 and he caged it for me. That was in 2003 and I still race it to this day and it made me realise how hopeless NZ driver training really was. Helped improve my driving lots, my friends thought knowing how to do skids in a FWD was skills where I was doing Scandinavian flicks on gravel roads.
I'd of crashed many a car if it wasn't for the skills dirt track and rally sprints taught me. Most certainly would of crashed the old VN SS by now to given the rwd sideways it gets in the wet
ginga4lyfe,
May 25, 7:12am
so ur about 22 yo then! I didn't realise you were as young as me! Haha but yes the licencing system is useless
minimad78,
May 25, 7:35am
I had a father son project when I was 12. It was a 1978 Austin mini clubman. It was great for a few years until my father lost interest in it. By that time I had enough know-how to finish it off. Theyre a great idea. but it requires ALOT of dedication.
sw20,
May 25, 2:18pm
What about bikes! Something a bit smaller. My father and I are restoring my late grandfathers '67 Vespa SS180. It is a runner that just needs tidying cosmetically (panel, paint, new chrome, retrimmed seat etc). Cheap rego for when she is back on the road too! About $100 a year.
brokebloke1,
May 25, 5:09pm
thanks for all the comments, my son is keen we have looked at a mk2 cortina, its had 3 owners but a auto " ill change it to a manual". only problem is its in 100,s of pieces but all there.
minimad78,
May 26, 8:55am
Thats actually a real good deal! If it was in wellington i'd buy it.
pollymay,
May 26, 1:57pm
Lol I dunno what age I was meant to be. Maybe I'm just too life experienced and all. lol
But really yeah lots of teens shytetalk cars and think they are invincible and stuff, it wasn't till I got into what isn't even a really fast car and tried to go fast on the track that I realized I didn't know jack about control and FWD burnouts are not cool
mopar63,
May 26, 4:35pm
yea we did a mk4 cortina ghia, bought it for $300 , did a respray and lowered itetcand sold it for 1800, wasagood wee learning curve , now he got a tidy mk3 goty that needs a decent g/box and some idiot welded up the spider gears, got given a complete MK4 with all the bits so more garage time coming up and yep making my son do most of it himselfwhere I think he can, you got to be patient tho esp when I've got two more projects on the go myself
roys351,
May 26, 5:41pm
i had a son father project dad chose the car morrie minor he paid for materials and i did a bare metal respray on it i did 90% of the labour without him there .it is a great little car now and dad is allways proud to tell anyone that i did all the hard work. it was worth doing but i wouldent do it again
richardmayes,
May 26, 6:20pm
Would it be the sort of project where your son provides free labour to help you build a toy car for you, funded by you, with his payoff being he gets to give it a squirt when it's finished!
Or the sort of project where you're building a toy car by him, and the project is financially driven by him with the benefit of all your expertise, and the payoff for you is a bit of quality time with your son!
Or the sort of project where you share things pretty evenly, and at the end of it you'll be a 2-man team for the Targa Tour our something!
tractor9,
Apr 5, 3:48am
My 9yo helped pull out her first engine at the weekend. Loved it, pretty big news operating the chain block.
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