how did you learn to work on cars?

Monook and me had play dates as kids...kidding, but Lego's shaped my life. Loved building and taking stuff apart was even funner. I grew up slightly poor so when I got a car, I could not afford a $35/hr mechanic to turn a wrench when I could just as well. So I learned the hard way, midnights on my back sunday nights so I could drive to school the next day. Wrecking yards were an easy way for me to spend 6 hours on a saturday trolling and pulling stuff off motors. Dad was a slight gearhead so when something went wrong, he wold always take a crack at it and I would help. It's a life skill everyone should have, but few do.