Cool people ready to cruise

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Cole

You, sir, are a bit creepy, in the creepy uncle way. If I was 7 years younger, I'd worry about being diddled

Nah, you would be way to young and have all the wrong parts.

[Token11b]

When I was 16 I was rockin escalegs.

[stevesnj]

Originally Posted by KendallH

Mom and dad didn't buy you that car to go and meet up with strange men off the internet.

Isn't everyone on a forum a stranger?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by stevesnj

Isn't everyone on a forum a stranger?

We may start out that way but there are guys here I know better than some members of my family. Never met but far from strangers.

[MuseChaser]

My Dad felt that the legal driving age should be 18, although he allowed me to get my license immediately before leaving for college ( I was 17 at the time). I couldn't afford a car. Learned how to drive on our family's manual transmission 1971 VW bus and 1973 Datsun B210. After two successful years of college and just prior to beginning a required off-campus student-teaching internship, the B210 became my first car.

As a 16-year-old, I sure didn't agree with my Dad's take on the whole thing. As a 56-year-old, I couldn't agree more. I was slightly more lenient with the process for my own kids, but we sure didn't treat driving as a "right" our kids had.

Our country's kind of weird. At 16, even though science says your brain isn't fully developed until the early-to-mid 20's, especially the part that processes cause/effect relationships, you can get behind the wheel of a machine that often weighs over 2 tons and is more than capable of causing fatal injury to many more than one person at a time. At 18, you can enlist in the armed forces, get married and be responsible for a family without your parents' consent, and determine the future of our country by voting. At 21, you're finally mature enough to drink a beer. Up until the age of 26, you can stay on Mommy and Daddy's health insurance. Sure seems that at least some of that makes no sense at all. Opinions probably differ as to what makes sense and what doesn't, but there's no way it ALL makes sense. I'm also betting that the parts that make sense will sure change as one's age and experience change; they sure did for me.

To the O.P. .. welcome to the forum. You are blessed to have a nice vehicle, regardless of whether you bought it with your own sweat equity or it was a gift from a loving family member. Enjoy it safely, always mindful of your own safety and, even more importantly, the safety of everyone else around you. I'm a retired teacher, and more than one of the many students I've taught over the years never got a chance to see his or her 20s or graduate from HS because they were killed in car accidents. Those senseless deaths can tear huge irreparable holes in families, schools, and communities. I've got close friends who've lost children in vehicular accidents. Letting my own kids drive was one of the most difficult things I've ever done, and I let them drive when there was a need for them to do so, not a want. They never "cruised" in HS. They're all out in the world now in their late 20s and early 30s, doing great. One of them is still driving the Volvo 240 we renovated together for him years ago; it meant that much to him. That means a lot to ME.

Take good care of yourself. Enjoy life. It's a jungle out there; prepare yourself the best you can. Do well in school. Work hard. Play hard, but safely. Live long enough to give all of your dreams your absolute best shots. Hug your family. The internet ain't the best place to meet folks, but it's not impossible to meet good people here who turn out to be REAL, in-person friends eventually, either. Use common sense, even though that part of your brain won't be fully developed for another 8-10 years. No offense by that.. it's just theway it is.

All my best to you.

Mr. Me

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

My Dad felt that the legal driving age should be 18, although he allowed me to get my license immediately before leaving for college ( I was 17 at the time). I couldn't afford a car. Learned how to drive on our family's manual transmission 1971 VW bus and 1973 Datsun B210. After two successful years of college and just prior to beginning a required off-campus student-teaching internship, the B210 became my first car.

On the opposite end of the spectrum but of about the same vintage I received my first car at 13 and was driving on a regular basis by 14. It was not legal of course but I looked way older than I was and there were no computers for the cops to look you up from their car so I got away with it.
By the time I was half way through 17 I was operating equipment and driving vehicles that would scare the crap out of some older people.


An almost 18 year old Tcoat in Germany with one of the more basic vehicles I worked with:

[Th3rdSun]

Originally Posted by imaguitar

99 Corolla

World Industries Mike Vallely,H-Street Matt Hensley,and Huffy Sigma.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by JFunk

... I'm currently dealing with the problem that none of my friends are really car people and it's kinda hard to enjoy a nice drive alone everyday. Looking for people to cruise in Miami, FL.

You want to enjoy a nice drive alone.... with other people?

[RichardsFRS]

76 TransAm

[RichardsFRS]

You're age is the killer. Not many folks your age gona have a car like that and no one not your age wants to hang around a kid. No offense seriously but I wouldn't cruise with you because I'46 and theres a creepy factor there. This is also why I don't frequent import shows. Mainly just kids and its not my scene

[Tectoniic]

Originally Posted by mav1178

You want to enjoy a nice drive alone.... with other people?

I think he is saying "It is hard to enjoy the drive when you are alone and would prefer other people to drive with"

and for 16, 2002 V6 Ford Escape. That was just about 200-210 hp at the crank too. I guess it's a way of life.

[NyC Zn6]

Originally Posted by Norville Rogers

Oh I don't know. I'd do anything to get my teenager out of his bedroom.

blame it on social media

[Romanov]

I drove a 96 Camry with two engine swaps because it was flooded... twice.. (not my fault)

[YXEBears]

1951 GM pickup when I was 14, first road legal was a 78 Subaru GL hardtop, fun little cobbled together heap Those were many years and many vehicles ago...

OP, hope you do find some like minded folk down your way, over the years my "car guy" buddies have become my most trusted and valued friends and mentors.