[Lomac]

So apparently my wonderful experiences with cars wasn't enough to deter my eldest kid away from the automotive world and she's decided to make a career out of it. She plans on applying for one of BCIT's automotive courses over the next few months but doesn't own any of her own tools. While I have no qualms with sharing my own, I'd prefer she gets accustomed to having her own.

With that said, and the fact that I've been slowly accumulating and upgrading tools for the past 20-odd years (good god, has it been that long?) I don't even know where a good jumping off point would be. Her birthday is coming up shortly and I'd like to buy her a good solid foundational set of tools but what does that even look like these days? Her passion cars fall within the late-80's to mid/late 90's (S13 180sx is her dream car... remember when we could pick those up for $500?) but will likely be needing to learn how to work on more modern cars, and that may require more specialized tools than I'm actually familiar with at this point.

Any suggestions? Any decent all-in-one hand tool kits from Canadian Tire or Princess Auto? Maybe a line somewhere on a decent jack and stands? Any must have tools any of you would say are must haves for a beginner and which ones can be added later on?