hehe. i got my second taste of it yesterday. this time in a gti 1.8t.
mmmmm....boost. not alot of it. but just enough.

 

um. you parents take away your food?
you have a weird reason to want to buy your 944. scared your parents will steal it. i hope i never get scared of my dad stealing anything...

 

I'm not getting what you're saying. Let me clarify: My grandmother, the woman I live with, along with my mother aim to over-protect. I'm not sure if you remember the thread here about me being so hell-bent on acquiring a 944 that I was about to get my own place and live on my own, but it was brought on be threats of taking away the car I'm being FORCED to pay for myself, along with the insurance. It's not like I would accept money towards my car in large amounts anyway, but I was never even offered a choice...so I couldn't even turn an offer down.

Now, because I live in g-ma's apartment, she has ultimate control over my car, which BTW, was a comprimise and lie until about four months ago...let's just say a FWD, automatic, and Japenese car was my last resort. This happened after I'd been waiting for three years to get behind the wheel of a 944, told I could look for one after months of arguing, finding one that was whole, but not running for $100, told I could get it even if it didn't run, and then having my heart broken by being DENIED my beloved Porsche....after my hopes were raised so high. Let's just say this big tease of a 944 and then the slap in the face called over-protection through rules...has left me more than bitter towards my parents.

Haha, my g-ma bought my Galant because I said it "wasn't bad" and then hid it from me for two and a half months. I didn't even know she had bought it, she kept nagging at me whenever I said I had nothing to work for...and to find out I "had" a car, albeit one I wasn't 100% on, for more than two months??? Makes me chuckle... ...not.

Oh, to [finally] answer your question, I don't want a 944 so my parents can take it away, I want one so I can take myself away. I wanted it to be my first car, and my only car. I'm still in friggin high school, I don't need reliable transportation yet. I don't even want it. I wanted to learn through my 944, like so many others here have. My mother and grandmother didn't get that. Despite the fact I took two years of Automotive Technology at a Vocational school, and that I could more than pay for repairs. And I was held back. The story of my life ...it was $100

They wouldn't take away my food, they would take away my car man. The car I'm paying for on my own and maintaining on my own, and it isn't even the car I wanted to begin with.

Sorry if this is incoherant...you've brought back a sour taste. Makes me furious.

 

Seems like i am not the only young owner here. My father gave me a 924S, automatic 3-speed at age 17 when i got my license. I sold that car (well i gave it back to my father who then sold it) after about a year and a half and bought my '87 944 at age 19 in Nov of '04. Both my 924S and 944 were basically trouble free, no major problems except a leaking coolant hose on both cars. You shouldnt expect much from probably 15+ year old rubber.

Other than doing the timing belt on both cars plus regular oil changes i havent spent much on keeping either car running, the 944 on the other hand ive spent a ton of money into modifying (suspension) and pre-empt. maitenence.

At 18 before i bought the 944, i was originally looking for a 944 Turbo and came very close to buying one. I didnt have enough cash at the time, only $4k of the 7k asking price and my father was going to loan me the money. I checked insurance on it and could have pulled it off, but it would have been a real stretch with me in debt $3k to my father and needing to pay $2k a year in insurance. I decided on the 944 because i could easily pay it off and have plenty of money left over for insurance and any repair work. I still love the 944 Turbo, but honestly think as my next car..if i decide to do another 944 will either be a S2 or a 968. Having worked on a 944 Turbo..i can tell you alot of the simple jobs on a 944 are a bit more complex due to the Turbo differences, IE heatshielding around the brake booster.. and the turbo water pipe which connects across the frame rails...etc. I am not saying its alot more, but its enough that i am happy i have a n/a car.

Cost of ownership is not bad considering i do all of my own work. If i had to take this thing to a shop everytime i needed something changed or fixed i dont know how i could possibly afford this car.

What i really hope to do is keep my current 944 and turn it into all out DE/Auto-x car. I hope to buy a S2 or a 968 as a daily driver within the next year or two. I know the S2 and 968 do not have as much power potential as a 951, but i consider that a good thing as it will keep me in line..i wont be spending
ridiculous amounts of money into making the car even faster. Besides, the S2 and 968 should feel like a rocket ship compared to my 944...with 60-100 more horsepower!

Either that buy something nice and newer as a daily driver like a WRX and keep the 944 for the same reasons. Anything with a warranty would be nice...

 

Ian G, don't know what the issue is if you have the car in your name, registered in your name. how are they gonna take it away??? Hell, when I got my first bike she said she'd take it but what could she do? nothing.

 

Well he's living under their roof so if he gets kicked out where's he going to go? Parents don't listen to whats legal or not, when it comes to their kids they belive themselves to be always right.

If this was true, we wouldn't need Social Services.

 

I have a good relationship w/ my mom..been kicked out but never for car related things...she's threatened to, but I can't think of a mother that would.

 

Mike, I'm told from the few lawyers in OT that even if I do sign the title in my name, it's not a binding legal contract because I'm a minor. I'm willing to bet my parents don't know that...but my mother is one smart SOB. She'd call up friends, start whining how I finally got my "Damn Porsche" and some idiot would tell her she can do something like cross out my name, put hers on the title, and sell it from under me.

Tis the horror of being a minor.

 

first car was an '87 n/a that I got while I was 15, learned to drive stick with it, and drove it for a couple years; I'm 19 now and just bought my second car, an 86 951

 

Shame shame..hope it works out

maybe when you turn 18 ill feel like selling my silver n/a..

 

Too funny. I don't think I've ever even looked in this area until the header caught my attention while going to the usual for me...964/993 boards. But back to the point: great to see you young guys get it. At 44, I'm closing out my 26th year of Porsche ownership. Started with a '68 911 that got turned into an RSR wannabe. Had the engine apart and case split 3 months after I bought the thing. Some great guys gave me some great pointers about working on Porsches and I never looked back. Jerry Woods and Bruce Anderson, among others.

Learn and enjoy the cars, work through the rough financial spots (college/grad school/business startups), be patient with the non-believer family members/girlfriends/spouses.

To this day the newest Porsche I've ever owned relative to its production is a 924S with a bum clutch I traded for when I was in law school!

 

Move out and do whatever you want.

 

I wonder what that's like...

 

I am 17 and i got my 944 when i was 16

 

You know, I've thought about that very hard. I decided that it wasn't worth the hurt to move out, for me, and even more for the others in my family.

I'd much rather have my parents blessings when it comes to a car. I'm confident they would just get über pissed and then after a while the storm would pass, but I think I'd be sleeping somewhere that is not home for a couple nights!

On the other hand, if I can find a 944/924/924S, I know of a place where I can keep it without them finding it.