I really hate how everyone sterotypes young teens
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I am 18 and i bought my S at 17 had it for year one wreck somoe plowed into my backend on the highway in the rain. I treat it with so much respect. Ive raced cars since I was 15 I used to race a civic and I just bought an alfa romeo and am now preping that car for the scca, so I know how to drive and what can happen if you dont pay attention or are screwing around. Lots of things are dangerous on the road just watch out guys.
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Yea people stereotype all the time. I'm nineteen bought a new 06 paying for it myself. I always get alot of crap from people about parents buying me everything. The only car my parents got me was back when I was 14 they bought me a rx7 for like 1400. I pay for my own car I'm a responsible driver no tickets no accident no nothing. I just give the thumbs up and smile when people try to talk their talk. I'll live my life you live yours. I have better things to deal with then having that stuff bother me.
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Even if I could have been able to afford a car like the S when I was 16, there was NO WAY in hell my parents would have let me buy a car like that. Besides..working 2 jobs, going to school, participating in sports, and trying to have some sort of social life would seem like way too much to juggle.
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Originally Posted by RED MX5,Oct 23 2006, 08:10 PM
However, I think good drivers who respect the machinery they own are rare, period, regardless of age. These kids aren't just unlike other kids, they are actually a lot like those of us who worked hard to buy our toys and take care of them as if they mattered to us. I don't think age has anything to do with it.Many of CCR's customers are kids (under 30), and most of them have nice cars that they take good care of, and know more about than the average American. LOL, most of them know more about cars than the average mechanic.
They are kids, but they enjoy cars and work hard to earn the money to own and modify them. Most of them drive responsibly on the street and participate in legal forms of motorsports (or in some cases, car shows). They don't have time to drink or do drugs, because they're too busy enjoying life.Guys like that are rare, regardless of age.
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From: From the Desert 2theC
Youth is wasted on the young.
That's an old saying of seniors.
It means they wish they were young again with all that they have learned in a lifetime.
I wish I was younger with all that I know now.
Just know it's great getting older 'cause you learn so much more then you ever thought you knew.
That's an old saying of seniors.
It means they wish they were young again with all that they have learned in a lifetime.
I wish I was younger with all that I know now.
Just know it's great getting older 'cause you learn so much more then you ever thought you knew.
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I stongly agree that teens are stereotyped. I am 20 years old and on my second S2k (2007, i picked it up Sunday) and I pay for it myself. I also paid for my first S2k myself, which was a 2001 that i bought when I was 17. No doubt some kids are idiots, but those who aren't should be treated with the respect that they have earned.
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Originally Posted by mgp 2675,Oct 24 2006, 01:33 PM
I just turned 20, and I am on my fourth car. I went from:
2002 WRX
to 2005 TSX
to 2004 STi
to 2002 S2k
Hard to believe I paid for them right? I worked my butt off since I was 14, because all I really ever cared about was cars. I just believe in having what you want when you can afford it. I wanted an STi since 2003 when I first heard about it, and when I could finally afford it. Once I had it, it just wasn't what I thought it would be and I found myself really wanting an S2000. Everyone thinks my parents have paid for all my cars and all of the things I've put on them, which really pisses me off.
And another thing...only one accident and that's because some idiot in a Jetta nailed me in the rear in the pouring rain. Kids can be responsible too.
2002 WRX
to 2005 TSX
to 2004 STi
to 2002 S2k
Hard to believe I paid for them right? I worked my butt off since I was 14, because all I really ever cared about was cars. I just believe in having what you want when you can afford it. I wanted an STi since 2003 when I first heard about it, and when I could finally afford it. Once I had it, it just wasn't what I thought it would be and I found myself really wanting an S2000. Everyone thinks my parents have paid for all my cars and all of the things I've put on them, which really pisses me off.
And another thing...only one accident and that's because some idiot in a Jetta nailed me in the rear in the pouring rain. Kids can be responsible too.
I'm 21, but here in Aus, an S2K is bit of a deal. Equal to say... an NSX / Viper / C5 Z06 in the US I'm told by my american contacts. I worked my ass off, saved up about $17K in 6 months, sold my old Prelude, and took out a $10K loan since I was tired of saving lol.
I've had the car about 5 months, have 1/2 paid it off [it'd be fully paid off if it wasn't for the fact I keep importing parts from the US off here
] but people look at you as if your a daddy's lil boy. Fact is, kids will be kids. What they don't realise is, they aren't invincible. My best friend realised that the hard way..... Now he's stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.. When something like that happens close to home, to someone you know, it makes you think twice, and even 3 times about doing something idiotic. These kids are too young to realise this, and when they do, its usually too late.......