Originally Posted by ChillPhatCat

The kid's profile says 17 years old, so a seasoned anything he is not. I know a lot of our members are just starting out driving, but the ones that stick around know that there's a long road ahead. This kid needed a HEAVY dose of reality. Good drivers don't brag about how elite their skillZ are, because learning to drive is a never ending process.

Using myself as an example, I'm 26 and I've got over 100k mi of driving experience, 70k of which spans the 4 F-bodies I've owned. I still scare myself at times while driving and I still have to look up some repairs and sometimes I even break crap when doing repairs. Hell I've never even done one engine build, I know my first one will be chock full of mistakes.

Originally Posted by 1986Z28OWNER

i agree, the kid is a post, but you wanna know something, IM 17, i bought this car in sept, with the intention of building a mis 13 second car, thats now evolved into a 355 aluminum head roller cam engine, sure there are ALOT of kids out there with the mentality that they are god and can do anything, but how many have actually built then engine for there car? in the past 2 years ive competed at Skills Canada in Auto service, and won 2 automotive awards, and got a 500$ scholarship, you cant just generalize kids into one group and call them stupid, because i probaly know more about cars than alot of people on this board. in the past 7 months ive dumped just over 6 grand into my Z-28, and 1000 into my SC. ok im done
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BTW im also on the crew of a 1957 chevy nostalgia nitro funny car, in which i look after our clutch and lenco(2spd semi auto trans)