I bought my first car when I was 15 (living on Clybourn near Fullerton in Chicago)....it was a 55 Chevy 210 2 dr sedan......Beige in color......I paid $15 for it....it was missing the Engine and transmission......The guy I bought it from lived about 6 blocks away........I got all my friends together and we pushed it to my house.....took a couple of hours...LOL......I had a Lincoln-Belmont Booster Paper route and I had saved up a "Wad" ......my dad signed for it as he probably figured I would never have a chance in the world of getting the parts and figuring out how to put it together to make it run again.....But........
One of the older guy's (he was probably 19) in the neighborhood had a 57 Chevy with a 265 and a three speed and he found a used 301 with a 30-30 cam and heavy duty 3 Speed and I helped him swap the engines out right in the alley.....learned a lot that day......He taught me not to be afraid of trying to work on my own stuff, just pay attention to how you take it apart and use common sense in putting it back together as everything we touched has a purpose and someone else had already engineered it out to that point....So.........He gave me his old engine and trans for helping and by my 16th birthday the car was up and running and was my High School car.......Took off the front bumper and primered the front end (remember when primered front ends were the rage)......drove the wheels off that thing for a couple of years .....when I graduated I sold it and bought a New 65 Impala........"BORING"......traded the Impala in on a Marina Blue SS L79 Nova in 66........But......that's another Story.........
Ken
