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Jan 22, 2007 20:49:03 GMT
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I don't think I'm the youngest person on here anymore, so I thought I'd ask a few questions. Those of you who are under 17: How do you fund your car? Given an allowance by parents? Weekend job? Also, do you get to drive your car at all? Field or tarmac? Myself, I get given £35 a month, and make a few bob buying and selling odds and ends on the internet. The Polo is all funded by me, using that money. The Locost is funded by my parents, but I have to budget it all etc. I don't get to drive my cars at all  I sit in the Polo sometimes and rev it though ;D There we go. Adam |
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Jan 22, 2007 20:54:35 GMT
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I'm 17, but still can't drive and have been fiddling around with cars for too long.
the old Rapid was largely funded by my dad (insurance/tax/mot) but major parts tended to be birthday presents.
I paid for half of the white car which I'd saved up mainly through a paper-round.
I also saved up with my paper round and washing up job to pay for all the servicing parts in the summer.
since I was on a "decent" wage (£30 a week) I've paid for everything myself - but there hasnt been a lot bought. Saying that, I'm paying for my driving lessons myself, and they add up!
christmas and birthdays are the best for big bits and pieces.
co-operating parents also helps a whole lot.
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Jan 22, 2007 20:59:50 GMT
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co-operating parents also helps a whole lot. Definately. Having a dad whos an engineer and went through everything I'm doing now about 20 years ago is great! My mum also worked at rolls-royce for a year, and is an engineer aswell, so she's pretty enthusiastic ;D |
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J.P
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Jan 22, 2007 21:03:38 GMT
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The Mini is funded by parents, ive paid small amounts but nothing worth counting.
I have a Metro GTa 16v project which I'm funding myself (bar a rollcage and yoko's instead of birthday and christmas presents - I got good deals on them though )
I'm not given pocket money, I really don't spend money on much else than Cars.
I do however get given (for example) £20 if I'm away for the weekend at a Mini event or a friends house, thse people are usually from the Mini club too . Trust has been built up with my parents that I'm the well behaved son and have good, decent and responsible friends. Parents like to make sure I have £20 or so to keep me 'safe' when I'm away.
I cant drive the mini - The metro may or may not have been a couple of blasts on the road ( I live miles from anywhere)
My brother and I used to buy loads of field cars (some now I regard as retros and wish I still had them - most were free ) as we live beside my granda's farm and have plenty of fields. There havent been any field cars in ages, mostly because we have plenty other things to keep us occupied!
I do have a weekend job and work the holidays though. £20 a day for me (which translates as spent on the cars)
Big respect to those who paid for them, or most of them themselves!
And yes co-operating parents are a bonus, ex-mechanic dad and mechanic brother are very useful tools.
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Last Edit: Jan 22, 2007 21:05:09 GMT by J.P
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Jan 22, 2007 21:08:08 GMT
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Unfortunately a weekend job is out of the question for me as I'm at school on saturdays, and only allowed to work 2 hours on a Sunday I'm hoping to get a small job for the summer holidays though. Metro GTa 16v = Powaaa. 100bhp+ isn't it? Adam |
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Jan 22, 2007 21:08:40 GMT
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urgh makes me feel ill that you school kids are still making more money than me.. dammmit. i suck.
respect
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idea stolen from rattely eddie.
this weeks car count "5"
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J.P
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Jan 22, 2007 21:15:23 GMT
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Unfortunately a weekend job is out of the question for me as I'm at school on saturdays, and only allowed to work 2 hours on a Sunday I'm hoping to get a small job for the summer holidays though. Metro GTa 16v = Powaaa. 100bhp+ isn't it? Adam School on saturday? Mind if i ask why? don't worry about a job IMO. People should be enjoying youth while they can! Your 16 yea Adam? as in GCSE's this year? Mines are next year. Metro is SPI so 93 BHP but has a Pipercross and de-cat. MPI's are 103BHP and injection system is a straight swap. May happen eventually.. Its a really revvy engine. Limiter at 7K but the brakes a terrible...With modification the Hydrogas suspension can be half decent but in stndard form is very 'Boat like'. |
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Jan 22, 2007 21:22:04 GMT
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Unfortunately a weekend job is out of the question for me as I'm at school on saturdays, and only allowed to work 2 hours on a Sunday I'm hoping to get a small job for the summer holidays though. Metro GTa 16v = Powaaa. 100bhp+ isn't it? Adam School on saturday? Mind if I ask why? don't worry about a job IMO. People should be enjoying youth while they can! Your 16 yea Adam? as in GCSE's this year? Mines are next year. Metro is SPI so 93 BHP but has a Pipercross and de-cat. MPI's are 103BHP and injection system is a straight swap. May happen eventually.. Its a really revvy engine. Limiter at 7K but the brakes a terrible...With modification the Hydrogas suspension can be half decent but in stndard form is very 'Boat like'. I'm at boarding school, so i'm at school for 6 days a week, home on saturday afternoon. I'm 16 next month, so yeh, GCSE year. My uncle has a caterham with a 1.4 k-series in it (110bhp) and that is revvy as anything (loud too)! |
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Jan 22, 2007 21:27:50 GMT
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J.P
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Jan 22, 2007 21:27:56 GMT
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I'm at boarding school, so i'm at school for 6 days a week, home on saturday afternoon. I'm 16 next month, so yeh, GCSE year. My uncle has a caterham with a 1.4 k-series in it (110bhp) and that is revvy as anything (loud too)! Didnt know there were still boarding schools in the UK!  Our school used to be a big boarding school but went regular a while ago (before my time) And to keep the Retro theme - Cateringham K series engine (funny name -Cant remeber ) have a few extra horsies. Different cams and something else but not mush different that the GTa engine |
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Jan 22, 2007 21:54:01 GMT
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Yeh, caterham did the 'supersprint' with 135bhp, but my uncles has the 110bhp one (same as the MPi in the GTa bar the exhaust).
Adam
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slater
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Young members.... questions.slater
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Jan 22, 2007 22:29:58 GMT
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My dad payed for alot of suff on my mini and escort but thats only cous he could see that i was prepared to spend hours making bits that cost a pittance to buy simply because i didnt have any money to buy them with in the first place! he just filled in the gaps buying me bits that were impossible to make myself. I never had a regular part time job when i was at school. i just used to do a few days work here an there for differant places earning a couple of £100 a time to buy odds and ends and also save up for my 1st insurance payment!!. What i can never work out is when i was 16/17 i used to live on a £60 a month allowance with out ever running out yet now I'm 20 i earn £800ish a month I'm flat broke all the time! madness!  You guys make me feel old!  |
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Jan 22, 2007 22:42:33 GMT
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Good thread urgh makes me feel ill that you school kids are still making more money than me.. dammmit. I suck. respect I suck too! LOL ;D not too old to remember either! Couldnt afford a car at 17, sold my poshish mountan bike (orange prestige) funded by paper round. worked in distant chip shop weekends bought: mucho cheap cider and spirits, '85 100cc Honda, and entry level Dyno BMX!  Sold £200 Honda when I was 18 to pay for '81 Fiesta 1.3 Bought   off my dad @ £350!  Paid for rest and fixed it while on dole till I got my Christmas job-full time. learnt to drive!  Ever since then I have had progressively less money and old bangers!  LOLz. told ya I suck! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Jan 22, 2007 22:58:30 GMT
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I'm 17 and been driving for about 8 months now, but I've had a Mini for the past 3 years or so, and had a '79 Celica a couple years back too. I funded it by stacking tables at a local rugby club, cleaning at the local butcher (yes it was a bad as it sounds), washing cars and cleaning at a factory. I left school at 16 and did some machining at a race componant place until I got my apprenticeship at Rolls. Then passed my test.
Never really drove my own cars before I got my licance, just other people's tbh. All my cars were in bits.
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I'm just glad I'm the age I am now, because car prices are all still relative but insurance just seems to have gone batshit... So fair play to you younger guys for making it happen for yourselves. I was very lucky that my parents bought my first car for me, on the proviso that I didn't buy a motorbike (ahem, moped) when I was 16. It meant cycling everywhere for a year more than a lot of my friends, plus we lived seven miles from anywhere on the hills... But it was worth it when they rolled up in a 2CV. I didn't fully appreciate just how cool it was at the time, I was looking at Chevettes, but my Dad figured I couldn't race anything or get branded a hooligan for driving one. Bit like calling your son Sue, what didn't kill me would make me stronger... Plus chicks really dug it. The only thing I miss from those days is the excitement of experiencing something new. I've done some amazing things over the years, but almost none of them compare with the first time I drove on my own... Unforgetable. Oh and Slater, when I was a student I lived on a £100 a month, ran a car and lived away from home in paid for digs. Now I earn a whole world more than that and I'm constantly in debt... Great isn't it? |
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Last Edit: Jan 23, 2007 1:11:27 GMT by bryn
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when I was 17 I got given my micra, and my parents helped by paying 1/2 the insurance. The 2nd year of driving the insurance had dropped buy half so I payed it my self (bout 600) I payed with money earnt at the weekend lifeguarding at the local pool and summer jobs. Now I'm at uni I manage to run 2 cars just from money earnt of the summer (all my student loan goes straight on accomodation), its lucky I get about 5 months Holiday really ;D
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I'd had a part time (holiday job) since I was 14, so by the time 15 rolled round I had enough to buy my Datsun ute... however the real savings piled up until a year later, I purchased the Sud when I was 16, completely funded from my own money, since mum and dad didn't want to have ANY part whatsoever in me buying what they perceived as an unreliable, costly money pit. I do owe a huge amount of kudos to my dad though, for helping me machine various parts when I couldn't buy them, for teaching me the ropes, and for always yelling at me for keeping an untidy workplace... so that was his contribution to the car. As for money, I sold my motocross bike, worked my ass off in the school hols, and also gained a part time after school job just to afford the panelwork on the car, and to keep me in petrol so I could go driving on weekends to wherever. Everything I paid for independently, insurance, WOF's, registration, the lot. When it broke (and it did break at the hands of a 10ft tall and bulletproof 17 year old when I finally got it legal) I just worked harder to fix it. Somehow I managed to juggle modifying it with having it as my only car, I'd save up what I could whilst earning a meagre wage as a student, then come the holidays, splurge what I'd earnt on replacement parts, then install them all over a weekend.... fun times! And I don't regret driving myself into poverty for my car, one bit |
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adam in da house:
How do you fund your car? Given an allowance by parents? Weekend job?
Not beeing that oldish (turning 50 this summer) I remember how it was back in the teens with rides & stuff. First wheels & motor was a Monark moped that was given to me at 14 by a dude who had a garage in our house who built and raced Norton, the moped was fixed up with money from my allowance, turned out real good after a year of working on it, sold it and bought a brand new Suzuki K50 with the money I got for it, got bored with a stock, new & shiny moped so I sold it and bought a Husqvarna Compact moped that I tore down and chromed most of it (dads friend owned a plating company so it was almost gratis), the frame was painted flake and all the parts was bought for my allowance, the bike was shown at Hot Rod Show the year I turned 15 (and could legally drive it), I won a buch of prices and sold it off. That summer I started to work on all the days off from school and could in the fall when school started buy a used 1969 Triumph Bonneville that was torn down and during the winter turned into another show winner at Hot Rod Show. I spent all my days of from school working or hanging at Roffes, a shop who dealt in custom & chopper parts. After Hot Rod Show the Triumph was sold off and a Harley Sportster was bought for the monney, againg working and building in all my sparetime since I was not old enough to drive the bike, another Hot Rod Show winner was turned out and finally I turned 18 and bought another Harley and was given my mom's old Volvo Amazon to drive during the winter. During this time I was living athome and had no living expences but turning 19 I moved out and had to finance living and my car & bike abuse on my own and have ever since......
DP says: Those were the days....
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Last Edit: Jan 23, 2007 9:46:00 GMT by dp
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I am a little older then the questioned age(18, coming onto 19) but I have owned cars for a long time and worked on them.
Everything I have owned car wise I have bought myself, I borrowed a couple of hundred dollars from my parents once when I was desperate, but apart from that, I never let myself get into debt.
I started working for my cars when I was 11/12 working doing the papers on the sunday mornings, riding around on a real heavy bikes real early in the morning for a few hours. Considering all thing it was top money. I did that until I turned 14 when I got a job working nights at Kmart, legal age is 14 and 9 monthes to work here but somehow I got around that with some form, worked hard before I knew it I worked my way up. At the same time with my passion for car I started panel beating properly and starting also working at a few different panel shops around town.
I completed my schooling and took up full time panel beating, had 3 job offers without even looking, asking or anything. Took the one I thought was best and love it still. At the same time I still remain at Kmart, and I manage the warehouse part time and stuff which is pretty decent money.
I Also do alot of work in my own time on other people cars, building show cars and smash repairs etc. I made an attempt to start my own business small, mainly just by name to build up a rep for when I open my business, got way too many people after work cause I did top level work for a very good price cause I loved doing the work and its basically helping get my name out for the future. This part got way to hectic with demand, I only do it for friends at the moment and special job, with no private smash repairs just bigger show style jobs for extra cash towards my 3 project cars.
Thats how I make my money, its done me fine and I am happy. I like to keep busy obviously but I have learnt to balance work with pleasure, although a part of my panel beating to me is still a pleasure anyway but you get what I mean. Although I do get very depressed when I don't do anything for long periods so its even a bonus in those regards aswell.
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Corollin' along
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I sit in the Polo sometimes and rev it though ;D
Our school used to be a big boarding school but went regular a while ago (before my time)
off my dad @ £350! 
LOLz. told ya I suck! 
