Remember your first car?

s1120 · Mar 26, 2002

<font color=red>I could play banjo music real loud. That should annoy them!</font color=red>

I hate banjo music, but thats a darn good idea./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif How about some Barry Manalow? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

PitbullMidwest · Mar 26, 2002

<font color=blue>Why, 'cause his son's an idiot? </font color=blue>

No, because I confirmed it. Believes I knew about the oil pump when I sold him the car and he expected me to pay for the replacement engine.

CVHoss · Mar 26, 2002

I remember it and I wish I had it back so I could look at it every now and then and have a good laugh. Got it in '69 when I was 15. 1955 Mercury. 312 V-8, 3 speed. Paid $50.00 for it and it ran like a top. Looked like heck. It was about 10 different colors when I got it so I got me some green enamel paint (must have been a J.D. fan even then) and a paint brush. One day going home from school, I ran into a H.P. safety check. Had a line of cars pulled over for the check. I could just see the smile on the Officer's face when he looked at that car. He already had his ticket book out when he walked up to me. Ya know what? Everything on that junker worked. Brake lights, tail lights, turn signals, right down to the vacuum windshield wipers. He walked away with a "I can't believe it" look on his face. I still smile when I think about it.

Hoss

PaulT · Mar 26, 2002

1970 Impala, repainted Royal Blue Metallic with white pinstripes. Paid $750 the summer before my senior year in high school. Yup, the chevy 350 lifters already ticked/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. Got it stuck in the mud at the US Gran Prix in Watkins Glen, before they killed that race. Later that fall I sold it for $700, and bought a 69 Firebird 400 for $800 (every High School Sr needs a babe magnet, not reliable transportation/w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif) Still have the Firebird today, but thats another story/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

therrien · Mar 26, 2002

73 Dodge Dart Sport ( like a Duster)
318
I sold it with 185,000 miles to my friend who pulled a trailer.
2 years later I saw the car with 265,000 miles, but not sure if the engine was replaced.
I would buy another one today with A/C in a second.
That was the best car in the snow also.

cowboydoc · Mar 26, 2002

No offense guys but why should we belittle parents who like to do something nice for their kids? I really don't think having to pay for your car or not is going to make you into a better or a worse person. Yes it does build some character but at the same time it's not alot in the grand scheme of things. I know kids whose parents did everything for them and they are very well off. I know kids whose parents didn't help them at all and are drug addicts and vice versa.

Redfisher · Mar 26, 2002

79 Camaro Rally Sport, 350 auto 4bbl
could spin the tires about 5 car lengths./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Wingnut · Mar 26, 2002

makes ya wonder, doesn't it?
I remember a co-worker once talked me into about $1500 less than blue book for a Tercel I was selling (low mileage ... just too many cars) ... and then came to see me later about splitting the cost of a new set of tires ['cause he thought they were pretty worn for the age of the car (1-1/2 yrs old).
Nerve, gall or stiupidity?

Wingnut · Mar 26, 2002

No offence either, Richard .... but I still think that kids who get it too easy have a lot less respect for "stuff" (witness all the talk about trespassing, etc) than those that had to earn it.
While I'm sure you're right about some kids with well-off parents ... my experience is exactly the opposite. My cousins - with a millionaire for a father - turned out REAL well ... one drug addict, one hooker and one thief (white collar) ... while my cousins on the poorer side all turned out to become lower/middle class parents with fine families. My family grew up dirt poor and all four kids have turned out well ... well, except for me - the conservative wacko.
I know one can't judge everything by one's limited experience (meaning me) ... but I've sure seen the results of kids being spoiled in the kids I meet ... enough so that I finally gave up being a Scout leader - in disgust.

peter

njrqs · Mar 26, 2002

Yep I think if as a child you have to work (not slave) for your money and then are able to spend it on your own car/possesions, you tend to respect those posessions much more.

If you are handed everything on a plate, you never know what it is like to have to earn anything, much less look after anything.

Oh well - That's all folks.