dont listen to all these blowhards. get a car now and beat the piss out of it.
then…
get a good job so you dont have to scrape up nickels just to try and afford a 20k car
then be happy when that rex is in your hands 
and you have experience fooling with a car from the POS you originally tinkered with.
getting a 5k loan for a car to fuck around with is NOT a waste of money. lol.