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[SteedaGT9150]

You hit the nail on the head man no bills, no rent, no nothing but all this money to blow on what ever they want usually totaling there car with in the first year. just sucks to see that. parents now days give ther kids way to much.
lil johnny wants new this an that mom dad get's it for them?
then with in a month or so he's tired of that wants something newer. where do the kids learn to work for the stuff that you want? an not doin your chores is a job
People like that I laugh in there face an call them a spoiled brat

you sir are a douche bag. most of us worked for our cars, payed for our cars, and put blood sweat and tears into our cars. not all kids wreck their car, and not all kids parents buy them ****.

 

[SteedaGT9150]

These are great and all but for the people who haven't mentioned where they work how do you do it? Do your parents pay for it?

I paid my 02 Gt off with my parents. They could have bought it out right but they wanted to instill responsibility. Im a Psy major, which is a 35hr week job in its self. Plus other responsibilities.

In all honesty 10k is a lot of money. Maybe not to some, but for me that is a lot of cash to put down, esp since mods are not necessary and for a decent build (Rebuilt short block, heads, clutch, supercharger, tune, breaks, suspension) adds up VERY fast regardless if you do it yourself.

IDK maybe I need a new job. For me in North NJ $11hr is decent, im also fortunate I have no debts to credit cards or such. Im responsible with $ but Gas, Food, ect... adds up. Doesn't matter how well your $ habits are you still have to [ay your expenses, and attend to your responsibilities.

For me Priority 1 is school, 2 family, 3 work. So where can i get a job with you guys that make all this $$

Meanwhile I will be waiting opcorn: ~ Rob

started working when i was 15, threw all my money in savings before that for a car. i work 5 days a week and take 16 credits for college. im an assistant gm at two indoor baseball and softball facilities. its all about money management. over half of my paycheck goes straight to savings, the other half goes to gas, food, beer, etc.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I bought my '88 5.0 when i was 16 and 1/2. I paid for it with money I made working as an electrical apprentice. $4500 is what I paid back in 1997 with 53K miles on it. All my money. Insurance and gas was on me too. Sure i lived at home, but hate to break it to you, but most teenagers and even college students live at home. Nothing new really and not going to change anytime soon.

I'm 28 now, and guess what? I still have my '88 5.0. I never crashed it and took excellent care of it. It has sentimental value which is why i spend $356/month just to store and insure it to only put less than 1000 miles a year on it.

 

[sneaky98gt]

I bought my 98 GT when I was 15 (almost 19 now). I had been working on my granddad's farm before then, and continued to work with him after, still do on the weekends. Every thing else that has gone on/in my car has been paid for by me: tires and rims, head unit, sub-woofer and amp, CAI, cat back, UDPs, PI cams and intake, and every lick of gas that's been put in the car since I owned it. And I would have paid for the insurance, but I got into a public (free) residential high school here in NC (NCSSM, highly prestigious school) for my junior and senior year in high school, and my car insurance was my parents' gift to me for getting in (as that school would save them a crap ton of money anyway).

Not every teen/college student has it made in the shade. My parents aren't paying my way through college either; they didn't pay for any of my older brothers, and that wasn't going to change for me either. So I busted my ass through high school in order to get scholarships and such to minimize my cost of college (which at the moment is $0 b/c of scholarships I got, not because mommy and daddy are paying every penny). And as I already said, I still work on the weekends in order to have a little spending money, whether it be on the Mustang or otherwise.

And while I agree that a big portion of teen/college students haven't worked for a thing in their life, and mommy and daddy foot their bill, don't automatically assume that every young person that has a nice/fast car had the bill footed by their parents. Because some of us have worked for what we have, and take very much pride in knowing that.

So how do I pay for mine? Part time job + busting my rear in school for scholarships.

-Will

 

[stprorolla49]

I bought my old '95 GT when I was 16 with all my own money I had saved up from all of my birthday presents and the $5 an hour I made interning at an architecture firm for 2 years. I bought the car in cash for $4500 and as a present to me, my parents bought me a new set of rear tires because the original ones were shot. I owned that car for 5 years until this past April when I sold it to buy the Bullitt. I pay for half of my insurance, all my gas, all my repairs (lots), and all my mods. I sold the car for $6700 in April, and put that money towards the Bullitt. My parents loaned me the $3k required to get the Bullitt, and I am making payments with them to pay it off. Sure my parents could easily pay for the car with only a day's work for them, but they have taught me serious responsibility, and to be honest I am grateful for that. I'm glad I have to pay for all my own things because I am very good with my money. To me, if your parents can buy you a car outright, wonderful. If you treat it well and take care of it, that's all anyone can ask, but if you are handed a brand new $40k G35 sedan (girl I graduated HS with) and crash it 3 times, and just look towards the next car, then you don't deserve it.

I worked 2 jobs this summer to make payments for both the car and my insurance, and the few small mods I did over the summer. When I'm at school I am a rep for Monster Energy and get paid $200 a month to promote, and I also have a 4.0 gpa. I don't regret one hour I spent working, and I can't wait to have this car totally paid off like the last one.

 

[joshjwc9]

I'm 21, just graduated from college, and have had my Mustang for about 3 years now. I bought it from my brother in law, and borrowed 2k from my parents to pay for it. I have since paid back my parents and returned still pay for each repair, gallon of gas and insurance.

All of my mods have been bought as a used mod (except for a couple things, clutch gears CC plates balljoints), and have even been able to afford vacations and other things by putting money in saving and reducing the amount of times I go out to eat. I don't pay rent, but I make sure that I can afford a nice night out for my GF and I. Plus I hope to enter a career in the next year or two and start saving to get a place of my own.

 

[1fun281]

you sir are a douche bag. most of us worked for our cars, payed for our cars, and put blood sweat and tears into our cars. not all kids wreck their car, and not all kids parents buy them ****.

i agree im 18 and have been working all summer full time (had two jobs in the beginning of the summer), and i still dont have a stang. im saving for one though and it is getting real close. the first car my parents gave it to me because i needed it for school and work, because i was given a car i wouldnt consider myself spoiled it was a stupid little suzuki grand vitara (could smoke one tire like it was nothing ) but it was stupid and cheap less then 2k and i have never been pulled over never wrecked a car or totaled like your claiming that all teens do, i hate it when select teens give all of them a bad name.

 

[98COBRA281]

im only 18, got my stang went i was 15, payed my parents back, bust my @ss and pay for everthing my self, i built the motor, put it in, do all my own work, have NEVER gotten a ticket, i know theres a place to race and it called the track, i dont think it has to do age, but maturity.........

 

[mazen189]

it all just comes down to priorities, and how u allocate ur funds. Some people have more bills than others, and yes, living at home comes to an advantage.....and some also get financial aid money back to them (lol, dont tell the state, especially CA, AHHHHNALD might come after me)

 

[Winters98GT]

Car's are an addiction. You just have to balance it with your financial situation, which I doubt any of us really do!!!!

 

[95.0Stang]

I'm kind of scared what my 5 year old will be driving in 11-13 years. We have an agreement I stole from Dave Ramsey, called "401J"...I match every dollar she saves for a car up to $15k in her savings account. I hope she buys a nice car that is safe. But a Mustang to match dad would be pretty cool! LOL

 

[johnnyt03gt]

im 32 and my have to resort to male prostitution too pay for a vortech LOL

 

[fshawn50]

you sir are a douche bag. most of us worked for our cars, payed for our cars, and put blood sweat and tears into our cars. not all kids wreck their car, and not all kids parents buy them ****.

well if you worked hard to get what you have why you bitchin. I was talking to the brats man? Seems someones get ther thong n a wad. That goes for all tha other whiners too??

 

[95.0Stang]

im 32 and my have to resort to male prostitution too pay for a vortech LOL

I thought about doing that for a supercharger, but I am fat enough nobody would buy! LOL!

 

[302GTS]

im only 18, got my stang went i was 15, payed my parents back, bust my @ss and pay for everthing my self, i built the motor, put it in, do all my own work, have NEVER gotten a ticket, i know theres a place to race and it called the track, i dont think it has to do age, but maturity.........

Amen to that, brother. I've got friends who own/have owned Mustangs, and they're morons with them. My thing is, is if you truly love the car that you own, you treat it like you would a woman - with respect. Yes, my car sees that good ole chunk of a mile decently often, because it's a blast no matter how fast/slow your car runs. On the street, I love seeing cops that follow me. I've got an offroad midpipe with dumped Flowmasters, and it sounds pretty damn loud from the outside, but you won't ever see me flying down a road going 20 over, or even 5 over most of the time, or peeling out from every stoplight, or playing Toyko Drift on every damn turn. Maturity plays a HUGE role in owning a car that was built to go fast.

 

[SteedaGT9150]

well if you worked hard to get what you have why you bitchin. I was talking to the brats man? Seems someones get ther thong n a wad. That goes for all tha other whiners too??

seems like you were the one bitching there bud

 

[TOOLOW91]

im 18 ive been working since im 14 first i was a bus boy.. fixing cars on the side and now in the body shop doing suspension work and other stuff but i have paid for every car ive had and for parts to fix them...

i started with my truck that i bought for my mom for 3gs to help her out.. then i sold that and got my buick that i had for 1500 and then proceided to trade for my 90 5.0, that i sold and went and got my 00 gt from florida..
its all about how bad do you want it.. i work 42 hours a week to pay ins. for gas money etc .. and maturity has a big role as everyone said

oh and im going to school for diesel mechanics this way i can do something with my life and go places..

 

[ninjastang125]

Im 19 work 2 jobs pay rent, car payment, insurance, cell phone bill and have paid for all 3 cars i have ever owned. i have done all my mods myself, bought them with my own money besides when i borrowed to get the new t-45 put it which my dad called a christmas present, but i still paid him back because it was not his fault the pressure plate blew apart into the bellhousing and trans. but thats another story in its own. i went to high school with a kid though were his parents bought him a brand new 350z and he wrecked it drifting in the school parking lot. the went and bought him a new altima and in 2 months he wanted something new and got a infinity g37. now thats what give us younger kids the spoiled name tag.

 

[02nightmaregt]

Well after reading most of the bitching going on in this thread, I notice that EVERYONE here "works" hard for their money and pays everything in cash. The thing is, parents these days DO buy their kids whatever they want and don't teach responsibility, but there are a LOT of mature younger dudes on here (98cobra281 comes to mind) that skrimp and save, do their own work, and still go to (high)school. I knew a lot of guys in high school that had stangs bought for them and "said" they worked for it and repayed parents yada yada yada. I wanted a mustang since, well its all I remember wanting. My parents wouldn't help me or let me get one when I was younger, so I had to wait until I was out of the house to get one. IMHO that was best because that way I wasn't in the habit of blowing all my $ on mods, and not bills.

 

[Stangdriver13]

I'm 22 now and I was on my 3rd mustang. First one I got when I was 16, my grandma helped me pay for it. It was v6 5sp. Had it for two years and sold it too get a GT. Had that for 3 years and sold it to get my Mach 1 which was totaled by some dumb ***** that can't drive. Had the car for 3 weeks and only had 9k miles. I would just save my money when I worked over the summer doing construction work which paid well. I just took out loans on the gt and Mach 1 and made my monthly payments. As others said its all about priorities. Instead of going out and spending a 200-300 dollars a month on clothes and other random stuff it went towards my car. My parents made a deal with me that they would pay for insurance on the car until I graduated from college.