Sigh, some spoiled kids today. rant

[RDuck]

I owned a 67 Falcon Sport Coupe in High School, 1984/85.
289ci, console auto, 4:11 gears.
Went to school, worked at a tire shop after that till 6pm, worked at a Livestock auction till midnight or later after that.

Drove that car hard and fast. Literally beat that thing to death on country roads.
Sold it in 88 after i blew the 2nd engine, a 302, and it sat parked for a couple years.
Got $500 for it which is what i paid for it.

 

[RDuck]

Lol, im older now and i still wreck my vehicles.

 

[gutterboy]

Lol, im older now and i still wreck my vehicles.

Just dont wreck the old ones!:grin:

 

[63RedFury]

I went to school from 1985-1988 and I dove a 68 Dodge Coronet that I bought when I was 15.Today they drive Daddys or Mommys car.And Mommy and Daddy buy their cars for them,and they don't like to buy beaters anymore.

 

[RDuck]

Just dont wreck the old ones!:grin:

Wish i could agree but i still jump them, still do 80mph on a dirt road and still kick em sideways.

Ive been running trucks for 20 years. Cars just cant take it.

My last 4x4 is a 79 Ramcharger. In the 15 years ive had it ive broken 4 front Dana 44's, 4 rear Dana 60's, 2 transfer cases (one 203, one 208), 2 727 trans, 3 360 engines and bent the frame 3 times and bust it twice.
:rolling:

 

[RDuck]

Oh, the new truck I'm building for play is a 42 Dodge.
I'm building a 2wd tire burnin road runner that's not getting paint.
Ive got a 58 Chev truck frame, 360 Dodge engine that was built for a Class A Super Stock circle tracker, 727 out of a ambulance, Ford 8.8 rear diff out of a 94 Explorer with 3:73 and L/S, and putting a suicide front axle in it and i found my donor in a 36 Ford 2 ton.
My truck cab will go on the frame just ahead of the rear wheels, which are 33x16.5x15, the engine is slid back in the frame to be just ahead of the cab and 2ft behind the front axle.
Cutting the box down to fit the shortened length, running small home built fenders to keep the rocks down. Need to find a grille. Don't like the bulbous 42 Dodge grille.

 

[roadrunnerman]

my first car was 63 chevy belair. then i got a 67 belair that had a problem develop every 2 weeks(payday).i quickly traded that car for a 74 RR from a used car lot in '79.found out later the RR used to be a cop car in southern iowa.have been mopar true ever since.

 

[69 Runner]

Problem is, when I was young a beater (something like maybe 10 years old) was cheap to buy and easy to fix.

NOW a beater (still like 10 years old) aren't that cheap to buy (but cheaper than new) and costly to maintain. Those cars are still computer controlled.

Also, the parents are to blame for a bunch of this. While I was at the first Dodge store I worked at a guy and his son came in to get his first vehicle. What was it? How bout a $47,000 Ram 2500.

That father had pretty skewed values in my opinion. Kid should have gotten a decent car/truck for a first, and showed the old man he could be responsible and take care of it.

HOWEVER...they aren't all like that. Family comes in to buy their son a NEON SXT for high school graduation. But HE thought he DESERVED a SRT-4. Didn't want to accept this new, and FREE car because it wasn't what he wanted. His parents were scratching their heads and looked to me for help. So I said.....

Son....let me ask you this. If it were a choice between an SXT and your NIKEs........which would it be?

So he shuffles his feet.....head (with skewed baseball cap) swaying back and forth a bit finally says........well......I guess it would be my NIKEs.

So I said "well if you were MY kid and were turning down a free NEW car, that's exactly what you'd get. You'd be workin those NIKEs till you could afford to BUY YOURSELF what you THINK you deserve.

I got a big thumbs up from his folks, and he didn't get a car.

I bet his dates love WALKING to a movie/pizza joint etc

 

[roadrunnerman]

all my kids and my wife's kids had to buy their own cars.i would help work on them if possible but that was the extent of my love in that dept.