[potato3732842]

Buy POS 30yo car and just start getting it in shape to be daily drivable. You can typically screw things up three times over before it'd be cheaper to pay someone.

All you really need is the internet. China tools via Amazon are "fine".

[system33-]

Not disagreeing, just elaborating, about “fine” Chinese Amazon tools.

I needed safety wire pliers to assemble some brake rotors. The metal in the ones I got on Amazon was softer than the metal wire they came with such that the cutting edges got little wire-sized dents in them and increasingly useless the farther I got along in the job.

Returned those afterward. Junk.

But there’s other stuff I’ve gotten from RANDOMLETTERS Amazon that’s actually holding up “ok.”

Also, Harbor Freight is a better source of ok/fine tools where you don’t need quotes around those words.

[Loudergood]

The saying goes Harbor Freight is probably good enough for any tool you can afford to have fail. If your physical safety depends on it or if you use it so much that failure would cause a lot of downtime, you should probably spend a little more.