Originally Posted by GodsOther
Ask ANY adult if giving their child 2 cars is spoiled, and more than likely they will say yes! ESPECIALLY the fact that ONE of them is vintage! Personally I think your father is kind of a fool for giving you the car but then again I don't know how much you respect your car, I think you are probably too immature to handle the responsibility of a car like the nova
Maybe I'm spoiled, but I feel that it's a parents responsibility, if the kid isn't a little delinquent, to buy the kid his first car. My first car got handed down to me, a BMW 325i, which my folks bought brand new - my dad blew the motor while driving it, and he bought me another car to replace it.
It's my goal and responsibility, and my entire POINT of existance, to be able to have a family I can provide 100% for. I wont go buy my kid a 'vette the first day he's got a license, but I'll buy him something.
If you can't afford to provide necessary things, and YES I 100% feel that a car is a NECESSITY, then you shouldn't have children.
I'd love to be able to get a full free ride on everything, but I haven't. My firebird is in my name, the loan is in my name, my $30k college loan is in my name, and plenty of other cars I've owned have been mine.
If you think that's a spoiled pespective, then think what you will, I'll be honest, I think kids that get $35-40k cars handed to them at 16 fucking suck. Jealous? Shit yes. Even if I had $40k to blow on a car, my 16yo wouldn't get it until he had proven he could drive without being a typical idiot.
Hell, my mother makes an easy $75k/yr as a Project Consultant/HR Director, and my father's a cardiologist, and when I was 16 I had a 1989 BMW 325i handed down to me.
Ritz didn't get a $50k car, he got something that nowadays would be worth about $20k, and something worth maybe 5-6k. Big deal. His father wanted to provide for him.