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re: First Vehicle for you kid?
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:04 am to SavageOrangeJug
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:04 am to SavageOrangeJug
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You just make sure your snowflakes never get in a car older than a 2020 with all the latest safety features.
That will be a 14 year old car by the time mine start driving. They'll be in something much newer. Your concern is noted though.
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Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:05 am to SavageOrangeJug
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You just make sure your snowflakes never get in a car older than a 2020 with all the latest safety features.
just take the L and move on
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:05 am to LNCHBOX
quote:They both helped.
Nah it's the crack down on DUIs, not safety features
So, crackdowns on DUIs didn't reduce deaths? Only safety features?
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 11:06 am
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:06 am to SavageOrangeJug
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They both helped.
Do you want to attribute some of it to climate change while you're at it?
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So, crackdowns on DUIs didn't reduce deaths?
Never once claimed that.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:07 am to LNCHBOX
quote:I hope your kid likes classics and wants a 1972 Camaro for their first car.
That will be a 14 year old car by the time mine start driving. They'll be in something much newer. Your concern is noted though.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:07 am to SavageOrangeJug
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I hope your kid likes classics and wants a 1972 Camaro for their first car.
My kids aren't redneck trash, so they'd want a 69.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:09 am to LNCHBOX
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I'd say anything prior to 1973 was a death trap being that was the year the first "air bags" were produced
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Nah it's the crack down on DUIs, not safety features
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So, crackdowns on DUIs didn't reduce deaths?
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Never once claimed that.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:09 am to LNCHBOX
True story, when I was about 4 or 5, this was late 70's early 80's my mom had a Oldsmobile station wagon like the one in the picture...I was in the back seat an opened to door while she was making a left turn at a 4 way stop and flew out out the door onto the street...
She wasnt going fast enough to cause any injuries, but its still a funny story that we laugh at still to this day..
She wasnt going fast enough to cause any injuries, but its still a funny story that we laugh at still to this day..
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:09 am to SavageOrangeJug
For a semantics stickler that you seem to be in this thread, that's not particularly compelling.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:14 am to LNCHBOX
quote:Those are death traps if you wrap them around a pole.
My kids aren't redneck trash, so they'd want a 69.
....and right....only redneck trash owns 72 model cars.
My God, you are a pathetic excuse. Your pompous little punk arse really thinks you're special, don't you?
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:15 am to tgrbaitn08
You can make him pay for some of it. Teach him responsibility. And kids may take care of it a bit more if they're financislly vested in it.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:18 am to tgrbaitn08
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True story, when I was about 4 or 5, this was late 70's early 80's my mom had a Oldsmobile station wagon like the one in the picture.
I took my driving test in a station wagon that size. 4 days after I turned 16.
One just like this.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:18 am to SavageOrangeJug
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and right....only redneck trash owns 72 model cars.
Were we not talking Camaros?
Yea, one of those is for rednecks.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:19 am to LNCHBOX
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Yea, one of those is for rednecks.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:21 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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I will start investment trust accts for my children the day they're born. Every one of my paychecks will send a bit to those accounts. You don't have to be rich for this. Just $20/wk for 18 yrs with compounding interest goes a long way for starting a kid out. It should have no bearing whatsoever on their ability to function.
Yeah, and I think this is the smart thing to do. But not everyone's parents were able to do this. Either through negligence or poor circumstance, some people are born into this world poor. Sometimes people climb out, but sometimes people lack the knowledge. It's tougher now to use that excuse as the internet holds quite a bit of information that would be otherwise unattainable, but some people need to be taught the best way to use that information as well.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 11:56 am to Darth_Vader
I have 4 boys. We lived in a town of about 4500 people.
My dad is delivering my grandpa's 1960 Ford Falcon down today actually. It ran fine every Saturday night up until about 16 years ago when my dad parked it and just never got it back out. It's been in a garage ever since. It's got a couple dings in it but overall in good shape. No rust.
My plan is to get it back running and that is what the boys will use to get around town until they each go to college. At that point I will pay dependant upon their grades. If they need a vehicle to take to town to go on a date or what not then they will take either my wife's car or my truck.
4.0 $25k
3.75 $15k
3.50 $12k
3.00 $10k
2.50 $2500
2.49 zip
Once they're all gone and hoping the vehicle isn't totalled at that point then then I'll completely restore it and do a motor swap to a 302 Ford.
My dad is delivering my grandpa's 1960 Ford Falcon down today actually. It ran fine every Saturday night up until about 16 years ago when my dad parked it and just never got it back out. It's been in a garage ever since. It's got a couple dings in it but overall in good shape. No rust.
My plan is to get it back running and that is what the boys will use to get around town until they each go to college. At that point I will pay dependant upon their grades. If they need a vehicle to take to town to go on a date or what not then they will take either my wife's car or my truck.
4.0 $25k
3.75 $15k
3.50 $12k
3.00 $10k
2.50 $2500
2.49 zip
Once they're all gone and hoping the vehicle isn't totalled at that point then then I'll completely restore it and do a motor swap to a 302 Ford.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:00 pm to tgrbaitn08
If they don't have time for a job to pay for vehicle, then the vehicle is not important to them.
Your kids are taking advantage of you.
They will prioritize what's important to them just like you do in your everyday life.
Your kids are taking advantage of you.
They will prioritize what's important to them just like you do in your everyday life.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:35 pm to bagboy333
My son (22 now)
-> 2003 Suzuki Samurai (hand me down)
-> M1009 Military Chevy Blazer
-> 1990s Nissan 240sx
-> 2003 Lexus is300
-> 2004 Toyota Highlander
My daughter (18 now)
-> 1987 BMW e30 (wife's weekend car she used in high school)
-> 2004 Honda CRV
Both starter cars I provided; they bought or helped buy the others.
-> 2003 Suzuki Samurai (hand me down)
-> M1009 Military Chevy Blazer
-> 1990s Nissan 240sx
-> 2003 Lexus is300
-> 2004 Toyota Highlander
My daughter (18 now)
-> 1987 BMW e30 (wife's weekend car she used in high school)
-> 2004 Honda CRV
Both starter cars I provided; they bought or helped buy the others.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:39 pm to bagboy333
quote:how’s a kid living in a subdivision in say Gonzalez or the northshore going to get to work? Walk two miles to the grocery store after school on roads with no sidewalks? It’s not that simple
If they don't have time for a job to pay for vehicle, then the vehicle is not important to them.
It’s not feasible for a lot of suburban and rural kids to Get to work without a car or ride
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:42 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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GreatLakesTiger24
the OT loves to generalize and all the 20-somethings who have never had kids like to explain to us who are on our 4th kid how to parent.
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