Possibly the youngest owner?
05-07-2005, 01:21 AM
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My step son has a penache for Cars... and his dad is a pretty well known ferrarri restorer who has had a time or two at the mille milla... (did I spell that correctly) So my wallet is in trouble...
05-07-2005, 01:36 AM
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When my son turned 16, I bought him a new 300hp Mustang and a 18 speed bike. When he asked what the bike was for, I replied "if you ever get a ticket in the Mustang that is what you will drive". He never got a ticket and the bike is still in my garage.
05-07-2005, 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by bcdavis
My first car was also german. But a little less powerful.
A '62 VW bug.
I sure hope you know what you are doing.
Because I was also a great student, and an intelligent and reasonable teenager...
I was not all wildly into drugs or peer pressure.
But I still got the need for speed.
Once you get behind the wheel, it all changes.
On my own, I was crazy with that car.
Doughnuts in dirt fields, etc, etc...
And then once I got a fast car, my 280Z, I started street racing, going for top speeds in excess of 130mph, etc...
And still I was the perfect son, perfect grades, etc, etc...
Over all those years of speeding, racing, tickets, eluding police, etc, I learned a lot about cars and driving.
But looking back, it was really dangerous...
So on one hand, a sturdy 928 may keep him safer, as opposed to being in a tin can.
But there is something about being in a sports car.
It just begs to be pushed. It's FUN. That's the curse, and the lure.
It's totally fun to mash that gas pedal and go fast.
But you don't really understand the risks until you are much older.
If I were you, I'd stick him in a big ol' Mercedes or Volvo or something, if you want it to be safe.
But if you can accept the fact that he *will* do those things, the 928 is much more forgiving of mistakes.
But don't fool yourself into thinking that the bug will not bite. It will. Especially in that car...
A '62 VW bug.
I sure hope you know what you are doing.
Because I was also a great student, and an intelligent and reasonable teenager...
I was not all wildly into drugs or peer pressure.
But I still got the need for speed.
Once you get behind the wheel, it all changes.
On my own, I was crazy with that car.
Doughnuts in dirt fields, etc, etc...
And then once I got a fast car, my 280Z, I started street racing, going for top speeds in excess of 130mph, etc...
And still I was the perfect son, perfect grades, etc, etc...
Over all those years of speeding, racing, tickets, eluding police, etc, I learned a lot about cars and driving.
But looking back, it was really dangerous...
So on one hand, a sturdy 928 may keep him safer, as opposed to being in a tin can.
But there is something about being in a sports car.
It just begs to be pushed. It's FUN. That's the curse, and the lure.
It's totally fun to mash that gas pedal and go fast.
But you don't really understand the risks until you are much older.
If I were you, I'd stick him in a big ol' Mercedes or Volvo or something, if you want it to be safe.
But if you can accept the fact that he *will* do those things, the 928 is much more forgiving of mistakes.
But don't fool yourself into thinking that the bug will not bite. It will. Especially in that car...
05-07-2005, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by mark anderson
My wife says that her gas mileage goes up when he drives her car but whenever I do it goes down.
Thats a good thing! As hard as I try my 928 always gets bad mileage, anything short of a long freeway trip...too much BWAAAHH and the mileage tanks
05-07-2005, 01:28 PM
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Nice!
Again, pretty cool
What rims are those? I know they are twists but they look a bit different...the dish specifically..
are they off a TT?
The more i see them the more i like them...
Again, pretty cool
What rims are those? I know they are twists but they look a bit different...the dish specifically..
are they off a TT?
The more i see them the more i like them...
05-07-2005, 01:32 PM
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Hey
Congrats to your son! That is definitly the right first car, so you won't get detested with driving(like if you drive Civic for example).
last summer, when I was 15, I bought myself a 928. I think I will start it closer to me being 18
Klim
Congrats to your son! That is definitly the right first car, so you won't get detested with driving(like if you drive Civic for example).
last summer, when I was 15, I bought myself a 928. I think I will start it closer to me being 18
Klim
05-07-2005, 01:34 PM
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Mark
Very nice, red on tan + original 18" porsche turbo twists...not the copies (at least looks like it).
Pcarfan
I also was a "good kid" with good grades...but when the parents weren't looking I was hell on wheels....I throughly thrashed every car the family owned or I ever got to drive...I knew the top speed of every car (most were slow), exactly how much air I could catch on a certain highway bump (with pictures)....drag racing every weeked on the "avenue"....would take any dare a friend posed...like "you can't take this corner at XX mph" My answer always was "get in & we'll find out" I thought I was invicincible...I enjoyed scaring the hell out of my passengers....there was nothing I couldn't (or wouldn't) do in that car...I am truely lucky to be alive.....many close calls, which are great stories now....
Now that I work in Law Enforcement and see first hand many horrible wrecks caused by speeding youths & have to tell (notifiy) the parents of their childs status...it is the worst part of the job (thats why I transferred from being a coroner to another cop job)...but as a teenager no matter how many "red ashpalt" movies I saw or how many people told me to slow down (most were cops)....I thought they were all stupid & firmly belived "it won't happen to me"
The statistics also show that having other youths in the car increases the rate of accidents, which why the new CA law doesn't allow it (unless its siblings).... Kinda sucks how the youth of today pay for OUR mistakes as teenagers!!!
Brian
Very nice, red on tan + original 18" porsche turbo twists...not the copies (at least looks like it).
Pcarfan
I also was a "good kid" with good grades...but when the parents weren't looking I was hell on wheels....I throughly thrashed every car the family owned or I ever got to drive...I knew the top speed of every car (most were slow), exactly how much air I could catch on a certain highway bump (with pictures)....drag racing every weeked on the "avenue"....would take any dare a friend posed...like "you can't take this corner at XX mph" My answer always was "get in & we'll find out" I thought I was invicincible...I enjoyed scaring the hell out of my passengers....there was nothing I couldn't (or wouldn't) do in that car...I am truely lucky to be alive.....many close calls, which are great stories now....
Now that I work in Law Enforcement and see first hand many horrible wrecks caused by speeding youths & have to tell (notifiy) the parents of their childs status...it is the worst part of the job (thats why I transferred from being a coroner to another cop job)...but as a teenager no matter how many "red ashpalt" movies I saw or how many people told me to slow down (most were cops)....I thought they were all stupid & firmly belived "it won't happen to me"
The statistics also show that having other youths in the car increases the rate of accidents, which why the new CA law doesn't allow it (unless its siblings).... Kinda sucks how the youth of today pay for OUR mistakes as teenagers!!!
Brian
