" because many of us learned the hard way! "
Dang Steve, thats my motto, but it is true, as you get into it, weld in hidden places(like floor pans -after a lot of scrap practice) & the more you do the better you get at it, as stated in other posts, it's a ton of work, nothing ever gets done in the time you think it should take, working part time it's not gonna be a quick thing, I'm into mine 4 years & have more free time to work on it than most, of course I've done a lot of things 2 & 3 times before I got it somewhere near right, so maybe 2or 3 years for someone who has some experiance, but i've got about 2 to go, I started thinking about 3 years, well it's gonna be 6, but for me it's the building, doing it myself, when you shoot paint on that 1st quarter you ever did, well it's a cool feeling!
Jump in, ask a ton of questions & have a ball! Rich.