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Worst First Car for a 16yo boy

JesasaurusRex said:
He has no job to get to nore any other real obligations which is exactly my point. Get it out of your system early, I feel bad for kids that drive 3 year old Honda civics to school. They'll never have any cool stories to look back on.
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Agree. My first car wasn't a 400hp M5, but it sure as hell wasnt some practical Civic or Camry. I autocrossed it. I streetraced it. I did all kinds of stupid shit with it. Yeah it was foolish and dangerous but I since I've done it already, I just am sorta over it today. Lots of people depend on me. I've got responsibilities and bills and all that. Getting hurt real bad and/or arrested would be much more of an impact today than it would've been 20+ years ago.
 
mean dad said:
19 y/o arrested after hitting 208mph during police chase
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is kinda awesome on the speed and the modifications I guess. Good that they got him..(?)

Speaking of posting "first cars".. technically yeah, but I touched a bunch of other "not mine" cars before that:
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This 1981 was kinda falling apart when I got it but hey.
 
My first car was a hand me down Toyota Pickup. It was the family truck. I lowered it, put a shell on it and over the top stereo system. I had it for a year, somehow blew the head gasket, and my parents bought me a brand new 1994 Honda Prelude. Thank God that thing isn't fast!
 
How does this not demonstrate yet again that you basically own your children and can make horrible decisions for them with no consequences?
 
No one asked but, my first car:

1963 VW Bug on a 1959 pan, with a 1957 6 volt engine. Top speed 55mph. Cost me $250 and I paid for it myself. Ran for 2 months.
 
We had a kid in high school who bent the frame of his parents Land Rover by trying to jump it over 30 feet!

I was in it when he first tried taking it cross country and ended up jumping it about 10 feet. Kind of a rough landing, but hell, it wasn't my or my parents car! :laughing

It was a novelty for me the first time, didn't have an interest to be a passenger for further rides.

He was a popular kid for about a week and a half, then when he lost his driving privileges he went back to being the class nerd.
 
Started out with the ranch truck, Ford Courier. Great for learning how to handle a drift on all the gravel roads out in the country.
Saved up a few bucks and bought a 1970 Vega. No not the one with a cosworth, and no, did not have the funds to swap in a V8, but with a header, intake and carb mod. it would take down the shitty Camaro's of the early 80's (at least in the twisties and up to 85mph).
 
A 16 year old kid can destroy Any car made.

Adult's do it as well. The public streets/roads/highways/freeways, are a War Zone.
 
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Sharky said:
I call BS on a Mustang doing 208 mph. If he really did, color me impressed!
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The article said its heavily modified but yeah, kinda unlikely the kid could get that out of it with pep boys mods. Who knows maybe he had help or hes the next Carroll Shelby.
 
Mine was a '76 Camaro with a little tail and nice tires that made it look like a Z28.

After the first year and 6 speeding tickets in my first year of college I got my license suspended for 15 days and then got a ticket going back to school (speeding) while on a suspended license.

Somehow they never tracked it down and I just got my license back in the 3 weeks.
Never crashed it... spent hours spinning / drifting practicing in those good old all asphalt parking lots of the 70's. No schrrrrrubbery! Loved to do it in the rain.

Teaching my own kids included spending time sliding their cars in the rain and a bit in the dry (now that I was paying for tires we limited how much we did when it was dry), but they learned the limits. Trying to get your "daughters so go faster just turn it and let it get out of control" took some work, but they did it. One did it with a smile. She is the best driver of the 3 girls.

Good luck 16yo.
 
Came to US at 18 years old in 99'. Dad had a 81' stick shift Rabbit for me.
Great first car unless you are obsessed with motorcycles. Sold the car after one week for $500 and bought a 82' Yamaha XS400.
Got my car licence and first 4 wheels 11 years later.
 
Sharky said:
Is it me just being old?
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No, you're just being never had a kid before.

Sometimes parents buy things they had wanted for themselves (at some other time) for their kids. Living thru your kids kind of thing. Or maybe the deal was so good that it's too expensive not to buy.
 
My kids first car was a 73 nova SS with a nice 355 with all the goodies, at the time I was setting up a powder coating shop so I learned on all his parts, my friend in Reno did all the machine work Steel crank and rods 10-1 comp and mild head work, everything was ceramic coated for the engine made aprox 450 horse, never a ticket or accident.
But he did learn to drive in my shop truck which was about 400 HP.
 
injun said:
My kids first car was a 73 nova SS with a nice 355 with all the goodies, at the time I was setting up a powder coating shop so I learned on all his parts, my friend in Reno did all the machine work Steel crank and rods 10-1 comp and mild head work, everything was ceramic coated for the engine made aprox 450 horse, never a ticket or accident.
But he did learn to drive in my shop truck which was about 400 HP.
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Dad?
 
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