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.

 

I don't even drive my Nova...seriously.

I drive my Camaro, are you happy now?

 

So he's proud of a car his family built, big deal. If you had that m3 with the amazing suspension you always refer to, would you not be proud of it, and gloat a little bit?

You're just searching for each and every reason to argue - if you like doing it so much, go get married.

 

You hit the nail on the head. I take pride in the car and I'm glad its been in my family all these years.

 

and the 2 points I made and have ALREADY proven was that for what you would pay them for a car you get what you pay for. Secondly that 4500 30 years ago is a LARGE sum of money contrary to your statement proven by just about ANY inflation calculator. And ANY idiot would know that in that era bondo was not part of the factory body however current cars DO use it. And if that car had a stock 307 you wouldn't have mentioned it cause the 307's were garbage, and certainly NOT bragging rights, the engine in that car for your claimed purposes was completely irrelevent.

 

This is where I completely disagree, and it's simple why. The value you place in any posession is generally higher if you on your own have had to work to earn it, period. For you or any other kid on this board to think that in some way your parents are obligated to provide you any more than a house to live in food to eat your dead wrong IMO. This is the problem with kids today and I NEVER thought I would ever say that but I mean it!

How about you help your kid learn the value of ownership through the good old ok you want a car? No problem, GET A JOB.

Maybe in this area but try having a car in a real city, it's nothing more than a burden, thats why I got rid of my old Jetta when I was living in boston.

It's funny you should say that you are jealous of kids getting 35-40k cars handed to them in 1989 a 325i went for approximately 26,000 which today would be 37,966.86 so effectively you just yourself!

See above...

You have no idea how many kids would kill for that car, at one point I was one of those kids, so I got a JOB and bought MY 72 Nova, and I BUILT it, I didn't take DADDY's built nova.... etc etc

 

damn i get my wisdom teeth pulled and i missed a f-body thread. nutz

 

Off topic, but does any one know they guy with the white TA, with "400HP TA" on his plates? He lives in my complex in Newport News. Its a sweet looking car.

 

man, you seriously need a life.

 

Got my 72 for 1000 with a tiny amount of bondo in 1 door.