Am I being mean?Follow

It's a damn sight faster and more powerful than 99% of people first cars.

hell most of my friends had a VW polo (1 - 1.3ltr engine) or similiar, look them up if you like.

hell most of my friends had a VW polo (1 - 1.3ltr engine) or similiar, look them up if you like.

Ok.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1979-1980-1981-ford-mustang-specifications.htm


Engine Types for the 1979, 1980, 1981 Ford Mustang:
ohc I-4: 140 cubic inches; 88 horsepower

My car.

Polo's weigh less and most of the engines make more horsepower. The Volkswagen engines make significantly more torque making them, yes, faster and more powerful even assuming the best case scenario for your argument, the 65 HP engine.

Sorry, mate, not sure why you wouldn't take twenty seconds to look it up.

Paging Darqflame!

Her Mustang senses are tingling as we speak

Puhleeze. You have Mustangs of varying type. You can have 4, 6 or 8 cylinder.

1980 4 banger... think a grandma's car. However, had he said GT that would change matters A LOT.

Thumb's kid needs a reality check. Buy the car, set it in the driveway and tell him when he can afford the additional payment to your insurance, and his own gas money.... THEN HE CAN DRIVE IT! Sorry Thumb, I love ya and all, but he's being an ungrateful ******* (and I am a magnet for those so I know!) I just griped at Thumb for this post because I am having a similar issue, to which I do not have enough time to go into atm.

BTW, my first car was a Porsche...

There was some silly sequel to that car movie, Too Fast Too Furious: Tokyo Drift I think? It's got Vin Diesel affiliation, drifting, and Japanese in it. Rent now, Nexa!

I didn't specify year, you did. I didn't respond to you at all actually.

My parents threatened to buy me a Gremlin. I have never been so happy to see a beat up old Toyota Corolla in the driveway.

I got my license at 16 and stupidly thought my parents would pony up for a car. Man did I misjudge that. My dad actually smiled. It was scary. I grew up poor, Rice a Ronni and Hamburger helper poor, so I wasn't hoping for something new or nice. A beater would have been fine. Instead, I worked for a year, saved up 2 grand and got myself a '65 Mustang. I spent another 2 or 3k over the next two years making that thing cherry. While driving down the PCH towards Malibu one day, some over privileged 16 year old **** with a brand new F-150 with every accessory known to God and Ford stalled out trying to do a U-turn across the highway. I t-boned him. Doing 65mph. I cried, right then and there I cried. Hot tears of rage poured down my face while I screamed and cussed and swore I was going to kill that son of a ***** when I found him. Unbeknownced to me the kid was the first one to run up and make sure I was ok. The poor guy must of **** his pants.

I loved that car.

That god damned kid coulda cared less about his.

Your son's face fell when he heard about the gift you were giving him. He's obviously disapointed, whilst you are being generous within reason, giving him something very practical, that will hugely increase his mobility and indepenance, while not giving him the Earth for free.

You've already decided to stick to your guns. My advce: just relax and take no notice of any sulks, whinings and foul non-violent temper . You've given him a gift, but he doesnt' have to like it, and he doesnt' have to be grateful.

Don't expect him to be sunny and happy right now in the present over something that ripped up all his teenage wishes and fantasies, and stabbed him through his heart. His feelings are real, even if he doesn't have the mature perspective to appreciate how unrealistic his expectations were... and just HOW many person-hours his dream car represents.

The huge upwelling of gratitude in his chest for the car you are giving him is going to come about a year after he both is working his own job (or staying within his own fixed income) and is paying all his own bills. He knows now what a year's rent is, what a year's electricity is, if you multiply out a weeks food, how much that is over a year... how much is left over from that...(ouch!).... and so just how generous a gift that first car that he loathed is, that he got from you guys.

It might not occur to him to actually say thankyou to you guys (now he really means it from the bottom of his heart) when that realisation hits him. He might not remember to do that the next time he sees you.... but just maybe, out of the blue, you are going to get a thankyou for that car, and you'll know he really means it, and you know he finally knows how generous and caring you guys were.

Just let him work through his broken heart in the present. Keep drawing reasonable boundaries, but cut him a bit of slack and elasticity for around this time that he's found out the news, and for the two or three weeks after he starts driving the car.

Edited, Jun 7th 2007 10:41pm by Aripyanfar

I didn't specify year, you did. I didn't respond to you at all actually.

My mistake. I didn't realize your pretending to know anything at all about Mustangs other than how to step on an accelerator wasn't aimed at me. Sorry about that.

If you makes you feel better to keep telling yourself that, go for it. ***************

Oh he doesn't think he's an expert in anything...he just knows more about it than *you*.

also: everyone else.

Nexa