Passed by your house and saw you working on it, joto. Are you done with it? Spoiler :grin: I would buy my daughters each their car at 16. Why not? If they deserve it, I will. I just don't know how I am going to tow it from the border to Katy. FML. finals, I actually caught that and thought: "did she mean CHEW people??"
My car(s) in high school always came down the family ladder. Stepdad bought a car, gave his old one to mom, mom gave her old one to brother, brother gave his old one to sister, sister gave her old one to me.
Some of ya'll are cheap. Me and My sister got new cars. They were reasonably priced (20K). Getting crap cars just to teach a lesson seems kind of pointless. The lesson should have been taught a long time ago.
I got my first car at 19. It was a piece of **** 89 Ford Probe bought from an impound lot for 800 bucks. I did find a copy of Devil May Cry 2 under the seat, so that was cool. My stepdad said "heres your car, better learn how to drive it" So I had to google how to drive a stick shift, practiced for a few weeks and that was that.
I didn't get it when I was 16. I got it when I went to college. You really need a car in texas and if you want to you can pay your parents back after college.
I could have paid my parents back if they wanted. Its not like I took it for granted. I think the fact so many people say that getting a beat up car is a way to teach responsibility is kind of short sighted. By 16 if you don't have some sense of gratitude you probably aren't likely to develop it.
I got a '66 Mustang when I was 15 7/8. I ran it into a light pole, a gas station and another car. I got an '87 Mustang GT convertible when I was 18. I ran it into another car and then a friend of mine one-upped me and ran it into a tree and a house and then the house fell on top of the car. I got Moses Malone's 1980 "Risky Business" Porsche 928 when I was 18. I ran it into a curb, and the curb managed to push the battery into the inside of my car. I lost my license pretty shortly afterwards. Of course, I went to Bellaire, so I had to keep up with the jews...
No, that was three separate incidents. Note to parents: Do NOT buy a stick-shift sports car for your kid.
i can't believe so many of ya'll got new cars or even old cars on your 16th birthday. i felt lucky that i was able to borrow my dad's car (i had to drop him off and pick him up from the train station though).
I turned 16 in 1988 and received an '87 Black IROC Z. The shiznet back then. Someone hit me a year later, totaled it. I then received a 1990' Mustang GT. Used the money from the previous wreck/settlement to add a system and MoMo rims to it. Totally helped with picking up the Vagine. Wrecked that one a few years later and received a '94 Mustang Saleen. My parents rocked ballz. I didn't get jewed once.
let people decide how to handle their own kids.. Great, you didn't get a car on your 16th bday...or if you did, you got an old one. It's awesome that it taught you something, and I'm sure you're better off for it if you're mentioning it. That doesn't mean that's the only way to go. People aren't always in the same state at the same age. I'm not gonna sit here and say that someone else's kids shouldn't get a car at 16. Or that they're not going to be financially responsible adults if they get a new car at 16. Shoot, they might already be overly uptight about spending money, and maybe the parents want to show them that it's ok to spend once in a while...who knows? Point is, there's no reason to judge a random situation like this.. we have such a small piece of the overall picture
