First Car Ideas
Grab a Duster, a cheap rustier one that runs and drives, it will be fun enough as first car. Do not get hung up on building a dream ride Duster out if it... build it safe. Get a second Duster to build the dream. I recall my first three vehicles well, and the tree, the guardrail, and the ditch that each one ended up in. They were all fairly disposable 90s vehicles, so didnt hurt like it would wiping out an old Mopar.
You can have fun, you can build on it, but 9 out of 10 people wreck their first car, and if it’s your dream car you are sad.