No offense to you but you sound kind of young and ASE's really mean squat without the hands on expierence to back it up. Modding, what have you ever modded or built? There are many aspects to the automotive scene and your best bet is to work for a dealership for a while and get some expierence and then try to progress. Working fo Panoz will not happen right off the bat unless you know someone. They are going to be looking for expierence in a certain field and most of them are engineering type fields of some sort, but not all. Just take your time and you can work into it but you can't rush it.