Heres the deal, I got a friend, his name is Rubio, I've been friends with him for the past 5 years or so and hes a great guy. Funny, laid back dude. He's my age, graduated this past year and has a good head on his shoulders. He knows what he wants to do and plans on going into the Marines next year.
He has always been that guy who had decent taste in cars but never really got into them to truly know whats up with them. Doesn't know the basics of a car like whats best for power, whats best for handling, what this is or what that is. That type of guy. Well currently he knows how to drive but doesn't have a license, he drives w/o one for some reason and I don't think he's ever driven a stick.
Alright, now to the story, I got a txt from Rubio last week out of now where asking me about a "1995 Nissan Skyline GTST Twin Turbo" He asked me if it was a good deal at 30k
Remember, this guy ain't really a car guy, I mean he likes them n all, but doesn't know hardly anything about them so I was surprised.
I'm not an expert on skylines so I didn't even know what the 95 look like so I went to ebay, one showed up, going for 28k buy it now. I wrote rubio back and asked if it was the one on ebay, he replied and said yes.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1995...cks?hash=item3ef7d8df42&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245
I didn't even know where to start. I wrote him and said
"Where you gonna get 30k? Your enlisting bonus from the Marines? You're gonna spend all that money on your first car? What do you need with a built drifter? Have you ever even been a car that drifted? Where would you drift anyways? Do you know what a turbo is? Do you know how to take care of one? Do you know CA laws are a lot more strict than TX laws? Do you know how to drive stick? Do you know how crazy insurance is gonna be? If it breaks, do you know how to fix it? How much it'll cost? What actually broke? Do you know how much cops will stick to you? Honestly, this car is way too far out of your experience level, don't get it, you'll destroy the car and possibly kill yourself."
I told him to start somewhere more reasonable, like a msp, srt, w/e, just something normal, not a Japanese drifter import car. Geez. He then asked me about a RX-7, Supra & other expensive, quick cars, far out of his league. He is very clueless on HP, he wants 500+ hp but he's never rode in a fast car so he doesn't really understand that's VERY unnecessary for the street, I know he won't track it and probably try and race everything on the streets. I thought I talked him out of it but he keeps posting and talking about "Skyline here I come" and s*** like that.
Basically, what do I do? I don't want him to waste the money, destroy a beautiful car and possibly kill himself or someone else.
He has always been that guy who had decent taste in cars but never really got into them to truly know whats up with them. Doesn't know the basics of a car like whats best for power, whats best for handling, what this is or what that is. That type of guy. Well currently he knows how to drive but doesn't have a license, he drives w/o one for some reason and I don't think he's ever driven a stick.
Alright, now to the story, I got a txt from Rubio last week out of now where asking me about a "1995 Nissan Skyline GTST Twin Turbo" He asked me if it was a good deal at 30k
Remember, this guy ain't really a car guy, I mean he likes them n all, but doesn't know hardly anything about them so I was surprised.
I'm not an expert on skylines so I didn't even know what the 95 look like so I went to ebay, one showed up, going for 28k buy it now. I wrote rubio back and asked if it was the one on ebay, he replied and said yes.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1995...cks?hash=item3ef7d8df42&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245
I didn't even know where to start. I wrote him and said
"Where you gonna get 30k? Your enlisting bonus from the Marines? You're gonna spend all that money on your first car? What do you need with a built drifter? Have you ever even been a car that drifted? Where would you drift anyways? Do you know what a turbo is? Do you know how to take care of one? Do you know CA laws are a lot more strict than TX laws? Do you know how to drive stick? Do you know how crazy insurance is gonna be? If it breaks, do you know how to fix it? How much it'll cost? What actually broke? Do you know how much cops will stick to you? Honestly, this car is way too far out of your experience level, don't get it, you'll destroy the car and possibly kill yourself."
I told him to start somewhere more reasonable, like a msp, srt, w/e, just something normal, not a Japanese drifter import car. Geez. He then asked me about a RX-7, Supra & other expensive, quick cars, far out of his league. He is very clueless on HP, he wants 500+ hp but he's never rode in a fast car so he doesn't really understand that's VERY unnecessary for the street, I know he won't track it and probably try and race everything on the streets. I thought I talked him out of it but he keeps posting and talking about "Skyline here I come" and s*** like that.
Basically, what do I do? I don't want him to waste the money, destroy a beautiful car and possibly kill himself or someone else.
