Tyler's 1971 Chevelle Restoration

[Nova Research Project]

Well ever wonder where things went wrong? I do not know if you have experienced this? Both my boys started college only to change tracks 180 degrees in their 2nd year. This time my son decided he did not want to continue with a computer information security career. Instead he wants to restore cars for a living!

To that end he is attending the local community college and taking automobile mechanics classes. But because he has heard me say many times that just any old body shop is not cut out to properly restore muscle cars, he decided he needs to restore a car to get first hand knowledge how to do it.

His instructor had this 1971 Chevelle that he would sell him. He at least asked me to go look at it with him. The way he talked the car would practically restore itself.

If it was me I would have passed on the car. If this was going to be his dream car, I would have advised him to pass.

Being the mean and cruel parent that I have always told him I was, I would let him decide. The car was a project car and I told him it would be his decision. (read, he needs to make his own mistakes in order to learn them.)

If he wants to learn how to do this, how else to learn. Besides the more he needed to fix the more he would learn, right?

To be honest, having the younger crowd getting into these cars it a good thing. So maybe things are really going right after all.

As Tyler is not into posting on forums, I though we would share his journey.

Greg

Just brought home