My 23 YO son and I are in the middle of replacing the heads on his Chev diesel pickup. I am trying to take some comfort in his learning to work on the beast. Kid is slowly learning. I hate to think what I was like when I was starting to reallly work on cars (and trucks!). If I can give him enough experience to keep him out of major trouble on these jobs and teach him to look for the information he needs, maybe I will have done ONE thing right in my life.
Daughter likes to work on her car ('87 300D) from time to time, so there is hope. She does carry a set of tools and has been konwn to try to fix her own car on the road
15YO boy will do anything car related I tell him to do. (and I guess, that is really something!) He knows he gets the '83 300D to drive to school and he is hoping to talk me into fixing up the body a good bit. If I know the youngest, he will be the first to get a 617 up to 200MPH, in reverse.
Since I work in computers, I take real pleasure in working on the diesels in general and the 617 in particular. Cartoonist once made a drawing of a diesel engine powered PC, I've got it around here somewhere....

Mainly, I need a bigger garage with full HVAC and more tools!
Now I understand the farmers who have a little house and a huge barn.