Sigh, some spoiled kids today. rant

[Cooter]

It's been this way since the beginning of cars..Back in 1988 when I was in HS, there was two main groups of people...The "Rednecks" READ: Country boys/gals, and the "preps" READ: Stuck on themsleves and if it started to rain, they would drown...

The "preppies" always had the newer cars, and if they DID even own an older car, it was bought with daddy's money and it was something common to "Preppies" like the '64 1/2-'66 Mustang...

Most of the Hardcore Country folks loved to just make it a point to be as "Country" as we could just to "One up" the Preppies...
I remember Driving my '67 Belvy, and later my '65 Satellite and parking in the "country" section..You didn't dare cross the line into Prep land either...
One guy who started out as a "country" kinda turned into a Preppie and thought he was too good to hang out with us "Country" folks anymore...

His pop bought him a 1965 Mustang and it had "1-fast-65" on the plates...Of course, being a Mopar guy I couldn't resist this in my Satellite, so I simply put on my tags "1FASTR65"...It was soon proven later on in the year out in 'ol Rt 29....I had the fastest car two years in a row, and the ONLY ONE with Nitrous...All bought and paid for with part time wages as well....I worked at a store and I remember how it used to suck to see my friends riding around after school while I worked....I think they came in the store just to rub it in a little too...But, Looking back, given the chance, I wouldn't change a thing...

[TK73]

Seattle area here

Bellevue, Redmond, Issaquah?

[Mike DC]

                                      


I notice more and more modern kids are developing views on new/old cars that are similar to their views on music - they don't have a genre as much as a desire for the "good stuff" from any era.  


Look at a kid with a 2006 Lexus.  The typical assumption would be that he must be a rice lover.  But I'll bet you could sell that kid a 69 Roadrunner a lot more easily than an 89 Corolla.  


                       

[Tilar]

I graduated in 1977 and I don't remember hardly any cars close to over 10G's let alone 20    

I ordered a new F150 in 1976 and paid $5125 for it. There weren't many cars worth over 10K. If I remember right my payments on that truck were $134 a month for 3 years. I had just started a new job at $5.00 an hour. Man I was raking in the bucks. 

[Lizey]

i want to know where you all live because the most expensive car in my high school parking lot is a 6 cylinder Camaro RS

[resq302]

1. Most people don't consider older cars safe.

I would much rather be t-boned in a 60s or 70s car than anything new.  I imagine they are not telling the insurance co that their 18 yr old is driving the brand new Mercedes, wonder what that would actually cost.

Much the same around here in Audi, BMW, Lexus...ect

A few of us have muscle cars, Fox mustangs, Camaros, Firebirds...the rest of em are into the import stuff.

One thing though, trust me you DONT want to get T-Boned in anything old. Look at any of our cars, the ONLY thing protecting us is the very very long doors that are basically sheet metal with little to no support. You get T-Boned in one of our chargers at a good pace and your lucky to come out of it.

Frank,

I would rather get T boned in my charger than my brother in laws new Kia.  My reasoning is that the older sheet metal was a hell of a lot stronger than the recycled crap they are putting out today.  I have seen this also being on the fire department in Boonton growing up.  The newer cars sheet metal tears a lot easier than the older metal does.  When trying to extricate someone from a car, the older cars we were able to pop the doors off no problem.  The newer cars we have a hell of a time and end up just tearing the metal around the hinges off to get the doors off the cars now.

[Tilar]

1. Most people don't consider older cars safe.

I would much rather be t-boned in a 60s or 70s car than anything new.  I imagine they are not telling the insurance co that their 18 yr old is driving the brand new Mercedes, wonder what that would actually cost.

Much the same around here in Audi, BMW, Lexus...ect

A few of us have muscle cars, Fox mustangs, Camaros, Firebirds...the rest of em are into the import stuff.

One thing though, trust me you DONT want to get T-Boned in anything old. Look at any of our cars, the ONLY thing protecting us is the very very long doors that are basically sheet metal with little to no support. You get T-Boned in one of our chargers at a good pace and your lucky to come out of it.

Frank,

I would rather get T boned in my charger than my brother in laws new Kia.  My reasoning is that the older sheet metal was a hell of a lot stronger than the recycled crap they are putting out today.  I have seen this also being on the fire department in Boonton growing up.  The newer cars sheet metal tears a lot easier than the older metal does.  When trying to extricate someone from a car, the older cars we were able to pop the doors off no problem.  The newer cars we have a hell of a time and end up just tearing the metal around the hinges off to get the doors off the cars now.

I can vouch for that. The jaws of life act more like a pair of scissors cutting paper on new cars. They go through the door instead of removing them.

[resq302]

Yup.  I think the "golden hour" now takes a little bit longer than the old pop and go.  Now its more like, cut, tear, snip, peel, and ok your out!

On a side note, I remember when pass. side air bags first came out.  First accident I was on with one, we spent damn near 20 mins looking for a second victim who was a pass in the front seat before we realized that the broken windshield on the pass side was broken from the air bag hitting it and not someones head.  Driver was unconscious so they were no help.

[jaak]

When I was a junior in high school (1994) I got my first ride, it was a '87 Dodge Daytona. My Dad bought the car, but I had to get a job and make him "payments" and pay half of the purchase price back to him. (I think it was $3800 and I had to pay back $1900, IIRC).

Back then I thought that was crazy, but I understand now the lesson and responsibility he was teaching me. Also taught me to "live within my means". Im 33 years old now, I have NO credit cards, still driving a '01 S-10 I bought new in '01. Other than regular monthly bills, I have a mortgage, a small car payment ($106/mo. almost payed off) and a small bank note. It blows my mind the people I know, work with, etc. that are in debt up to their ears just to "keep up with the Jones'". They have mounds of credit card debt and finance everything they got. Blows my mind.
Don't get me wrong, I don't thing there is nothing wrong with have all the fancy things, if you got the money/means to pay for it.

Jason

[redrider]

being in high school myself alot of kids around here make the payments on there stuff while there parents pay for insurance, gas, and all the auto body work