You've never disassembled an engine in your front yard, have you? Or replaced a CV joint in the snow? Or aligned your front end using nothing more than a transept, a level, and a yardstick after having replaced the tie rod ends? Or raplaced a transmission with some 2x4s and a floor jack?

None of those things were fun, but all of them were educational. Every kid should start out driving an old VW. As cars go, they're easy to work on, cheap, and will teach you all kinds of things about how cars work.

You just don't know what you're missing out on. All that stuff up there means things. Good things.