kid gets 2010 Camaro SS for his 16th birthday

[BlackCherry06]

If it HAD to be a Camaro, a V6 woulda made more sense. But at 304hp, that doesn't even make much sense.

If he manages not to wreck it, he'll still be growing up without any sense of the value of making your own money and earning your belongings through hard work and discipline.

He just may be a 'great kid', but the value lesson is totally absent from this scenario. And 'great kid' or not, 426 hp is just rediculous.

 

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

If you can afford it, I have no issues with getting your kid a nice car, but "nice car" doesn't necessarily mean "sports car". Especially as a first car.

 

[sephiroth]

(werd) Seems like the kid is pretty well adjusted and not some spoiled brat. I'm sure he'll know what he can and cant do with that car.

That's in no way a show of what kind of person this kid actually is. Just because a couple of people say it's a big deal doesn't mean he will treat it like one. Give a person(or in this case a 16 year old) the opportunity to behave badly and they will.

 

[BlackCherry06]

I remember what I was like. Thankfully (now) my first car was a '78 Chevy Monza with a 2.5. It was useless to try racing anyone, but imagine what happened when my parents left me at home on vacation, and there hung the keys to my dad's '88 Chevy flareside 4X4 with a 350 in it. He knew I had driven it...he just didn't know HOW I had driven it.

 

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

I remember what I was like. Thankfully (now) my first car was a '78 Chevy Monza with a 2.5. It was useless to try racing anyone, but imagine what happened when my parents left me at home on vacation, and there hung the keys to my dad's '88 Chevy flareside 4X4 with a 350 in it. He knew I had driven it...he just didn't know HOW I had driven it.

I guess the difference is a healthy fear of what your parents would do to you. My folks were gone by the time I started driving, but I have no doubt in my mind that had he still been around and I had done something like that, my old man would have killed me. Possibly literally.

 

[mikeyb]

I drove an 82 Olds Delta 88 with a carbed 307 that was slow as hell.

 

[BlackCherry06]

I drove an 82 Olds Delta 88 with a carbed 307 that was slow as hell.

OMG....I'm sorry man. I guess I didn't have it so bad afterall. Even my Monza coulda kicked your ass.

 

[mikeyb]

OMG....I'm sorry man. I guess I didn't have it so bad afterall. Even my Monza coulda kicked your ass.

I was the coolest kid in high school. It was a two door with the landeau(sp) half roof. I had 16" crager mags and a flowmaster/custom dual exhaust on it.

 

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

I was the coolest kid in a seriously lame high school. It was a two door with the landeau(sp) half roof. I had 16" crager mags and a flowmaster/custom dual exhaust on it.

Fixed.

 

[BlackCherry06]

LOL. Classic! Oldsmobile's Sport Coupe for the 80's. Flowmasters on a emissions-choked 307. This just gets better and better!

 

[10CopperRed]

More money than sense...wow

 

[Guest20182]

My neighbor just bought her 15 year old a 1972 Nova with a 454 swapped into it, bored 30 over, aftermarket ignition, advanced timing, full exhaust, cammed, it's manumatic (does NOT have a "D" setting, you have to manually shift all the time)


It is a full out drag car for a DD when (if, considering he doesn't practice) he gets his license. I don't know the exact specs of the car, because he can't tell me because he doesn't know anything about cars and got no list of what's done to it, and of course no one who know about cars can touch it lol. I told him that they "don't make them like this anymore."

 

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

My neighbor just bought her 15 year old a 1972 Nova with a 454 swapped into it, bored 30 over, aftermarket ignition, advanced timing, full exhaust, cammed, it's manumatic (does NOT have a "D" setting, you have to manually shift all the time)

I told him that they "don't make them like this anymore."

Technically speaking they never made them like that. Manumatic for a car that old is a built transmission with an aftermarket valve body, or one that was modded by someone who knows his way around those old automatics.
At least it doesn't have delusions of being able to handle, so any racing he does should be in a straight line. Maybe he'll survive long enough to appreciate the car.

 

[BlackCherry06]

My brother's first car was some kind of souped up Olds 442. He wrapped it around a telephone pole around 1975 during a race. This, and many other of his antics was why my parents were so nervous about me getting a car at all, and they'd have no part of me getting anything remotely fast. I had my eye on an all-original '71 Chevelle SS that a neighbor was selling when I turned 16. Gave my dad a good chuckle.

 

[Guest20182]

Technically speaking they never made them like that. Manumatic for a car that old is a built transmission with an aftermarket valve body, or one that was modded by someone who knows his way around those old automatics.
At least it doesn't have delusions of being able to handle, so any racing he does should be in a straight line. Maybe he'll survive long enough to appreciate the car.

Their is no "D" though. I'm just as confused as you probably are. It won't last long enough to see the drag strip guaranteed.

 

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

The kicker here is that the title says 16 year old, but I'm pretty sure they said 15 in the video.
This kid probably has a learners permit and is going to do most of his first driving in this car with an adult beside him.

 

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

There is no "D" though. I'm just as confused as you probably are. It won't last long enough to see the drag strip guaranteed.

Are you sure it's the factory shifter?

 

[Guest20182]

Are you sure it's the factory shifter?

I never said it was factory lol. Plainly put, it is a full out drag car that he's gonna DD.

 

[R-X-R]

look like we have a discussion on parenting now.,.,.

 

[LOL WUT]

I find it funny how people will say it's a stupid thing to do, the kid is gonna get hurt and crash, he's gonna be irresponsible, ect ect. If you had that kind of money to throw around I bet your kids would not be driving some hunk of crap so they are "safe". I am not saying you would buy them a sports car but when you can drop 40+k on your kids first car and your wife is driving a new BMW M5 things are a bit different. When I have children if I have the funding to buy them a nice first car you bet your ass I will. Just because something is given to a kid at that age doesn't mean he is not going to respect it or be responsible with it. s*** I bet half of the guys on this forum drive more irresponsible on the street than that kid will in his camaro because he knows if he messes up it's gone. One of my good friends got a 240sx with a fully built RB26DETT motor pushing out over 600hp at the wheels at age 17 and you couldn't pay that kid to get on it because he knew it was gone the second he messed up. Cut the kid some slack, he seems like he's thankful for what he's got. I can see how some may be jealous of a 15 year old driving a nicer car than you but someone always has something nicer, doesn't matter if they are 15 or 115.