lets see, i got my first z when i was prob 16 or 17. My uncle that used to do body work said he would fix it all up for me. well he had it for a good 6 to 8 months and didn't even touch it. i was pretty upset, but the only good thing that came out of it was me not spending a cent of my money and by the end of senior year i had enough money to buy my second z, get it restored by a shop and now about to l28et swap it. my second z was 2500, the restore and paint was 1600, and the motor set up and gonna be 3000. I did all this working minimum wadge. I just turned 18 BTW. I say go for it. As long as you can save money it's definatlly THE car to build on. Awesome, fun cars with a great resale value =D ha ha. oh and my car went from rusted multicolored poo brown to what you see in my sig.