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what course do i need to study to be able to restore cars ???
i would love to buy an old classic car say from the 70s or so and be able to make it as if it was just built today, i think its called car restoration or costumization ,, not sure ..
so how would i be able to do that ?? what is the name of the coarse i need to study or can any mechanic do it ???
There isn’t just one class. You need to know everything about cars, even if you don’t do all the work yourself. Start with the basics. Take a beginning auto shop class at your local community college. Work your way up to specific systems, like electrical, fuel, suspension, body work, interior, everything. Read as much as you can. If you have a specific car in mind, get yourself a repair manual for that car. Look for books on car care and restoration. There’s billions of them. Well, not billions, but you get my drift. You need to know your limitations when you try to restore, or even work on a car. There are some things you can do in the garage, some you can’t. A lot of the tasks involved in restoration are just grunt work, and basic auto mechanics. But there are a lot of tasks that involve years of training and practice and/or very specialized equipment, like paint and body, welding, fabricating, and machine work. I can tell you from experience that there is no substitute for absorbing as much knowledge as you can from books, magazines, web sites, and actual hands-on experience. This is how I did it, starting in high school, although the internet as we know it did not exist in the 1970s, so I had to actually read books. I rarely take my cars in to the shop for work. I do most of it myself. There’s too many jerks fixing cars out there. Even if you never work on pr restore a car, just having a lot of knowledge can save you a lot of money when you take it to some mechanic who claims to own his own shop and professes to have 36 years of experience. Those are the people you need to be wary of, because what they have is 36 years of experience extracting money from unsuspecting motorists.
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