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Old 04-20-2012, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by lippy View Post
I want them to learn how things work, how to plan a project, that things need to be made by someone, and lastly I want to spend the time with them. Otherwise I'd probably save some dough and consider a completed car.
Admirable. BUT, can I ask what age(s) they are? Let me tell you,I speak from experience, and kids will have about a 20 minute attention span, if that, when working on a Cobra. Now, personally, I used to play hooky from high school to stay home and work on my sports car. You couldn't find a bigger sports car nut than me starting around 15 or so, and I would have jumped at the chance to do any work on a Cobra up until, say, 18 or 19. Of course, if I had somehow managed to get my hands on a Cobra at that age I would have 100% wrecked it -- no doubt about that.
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