My 16 year old's first car!

[CoogarXR]

Could you just pay somebody to put in a used transmission? I bet a local mom-n-pop type shop wouldn't charge much for a relatively easy job like that. At least then your son could drive it then, and fall in love with it, and in turn rekindle his desire to fix it up.

Plus, if you decide to sell it, a car that can be driven home obviously sells WAY better than one that needs towed.

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by CoogarXR

Could you just pay somebody to put in a used transmission? I bet a local mom-n-pop type shop wouldn't charge much for a relatively easy job like that. At least then your son could drive it then, and fall in love with it, and in turn rekindle his desire to fix it up.

Plus, if you decide to sell it, a car that can be driven home obviously sells WAY better than one that needs towed.

Thought of that too. But if I'm going that far, he will learn the lesson of "once it's gone it's gone"

I'll probably hang on to it and work on it. I just bought and sold a Philco chairside radio bar for almost enough to give him all of his invested cash out of it