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Originally Posted by chris_flies
The car had 159k miles on it, was a base model, and had nothing interesting done to it. I got it for $7200 out the door, including registration fees and the dealer's processing fee. And, as I've mentioned, I work off all of the mods by doing labor around my house, and earn what I save them in hiring someone in car parts (I've done a scientific crap ton). Also, my car has never been to a mechanic (except that one alignment they did wrong, and I did better) so I save in those areas as well, and I also do the majority of maintenance and car washing on their cars, since dad spends loads of time at work.
Maybe I'm just being too modest, and don't realize my situation; I just hate being in-your-face about stuff.
Oh, yeah, getting a car in your teens is WAY easier and cheaper here in America than in other parts of the world, at least from what I've researched and read about. Also, it's kind of a necessity with our spread-out suburbs and just how far away everything is from everything else compared to (assuming here) European towns.
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The kid is an old soul. Not many teenagers are interested in cars anymore, let alone working on them. Neither of my sons displays even a slightest interest in motoring... they are in their twenties, have great jobs and could afford better cars that I can... and yet....
Anyway, I had a neighbor some years ago who's son bought himself a beat-up GTI and was so persistent at fixing it up and making it look good... while going to school and working shitty jobs in the evening.
I don't know how many times I lent him my tools, some of them I never got back and never asked for. He was always ready to give me a hand when my garage door was open and whatever I was driving at the moment was up on jackstands.
I love my kids to death but I wish sometimes they were more like me and actually knew what the difference between a screw and a bolt is, lol.
Chris_flies, keep up the good work man, we need more people like you or else we will be all extinct before we know it and whoever is left will have not a single drop of petrol left in their blood.