Bought a 2024 GT Premium as my first car (I’m 15 and just getting started in the car world)

[Zig]

Publix is 1 of them, and at my dads company which is in the healthcare industry. I do school virtually so I can work and do school whenever works best for me. I'm also making payments on the car and insurance, but the way it works is since its under my dads name (until when I'm 18 he will transfer the title) I will send him the money I owe him for my behalf of the payments every month. So technically from a legal perspective, its my dads car and he's letting me drive it, but he bought it for me. So yes, his name is on the loan paperwork.

Slow the data dump, personal deets chill the riz… lol.

enjoy the ride with knowledge gleaned not revealed, unless you’re into that kind of thing.

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[garagely]

Sweet ride - Everyone jealous here is just mad that their parents weren’t rich and/or criminally negligent.

Next mods I’d recommend would be radar detector, fire extinguisher kit, and instagram account decals. I believe Ford performance used to sell all of these items together as a ‘new driver accessory pack’ for the gt500 at a discount but not sure if they offer it on the s650s.

 

[Rambo5.0h]

Just curious...where were you able to land a job at 15....not questioning it....genuinely curious as my oldest daughter is in high school and outside of fast food places, finding an employer willing to hire someone still in high school has been challenging.....so looking for ideas....

Well since I'm in Florida I landed a job at Publix right as I turned 14 years old since that's the youngest you can be to start working there. For my second job, my dad has companies in the healthcare industry so I do some patient reports there as well.

 

[SLVRNITEPONY]

Some warm welcome for a new member….

We all were young once. And plenty of high school kids showed up with MUSCLE…

It took me a while to get a cool car. My first really cool car I got when I was about 21. A 72 Camaro with a 307. It was white, with black stripes and had Cragars/ white letter tires. Damn I loved that car! Had 170,000 miles on it, got it cheap but still passed the 10 foot rule and was so badass to drive. Shame it had a bad short and would stall when it rained…lol. Could never trace the bad ground.

not to derail this thread but, your 72 Camaro probably had moisture in the distributor cap. A quick shot of WD-40 (Water Displacement formula #40) inside the cap probably would have fixed you right up. I had a new 1983 ford escort that did the same thing, Brand new car, stalled every time it rained. Popped the distributor cap and it was loaded with moisture. Did the WD-40 trick and RTV'd that cap back on. Never had a problem in the rain after that. Ford later fixed the moisture prone distributor caps by installing a rubber boot around them.

Rambo5.0h good call on the car bud. Congrats.

 

[AZ_Ryan]

Well since I'm in Florida I landed a job at Publix right as I turned 14 years old since that's the youngest you can be to start working there. For my second job, my dad has companies in the healthcare industry so I do some patient reports there as well.

2 jobs at 15 is very respectable. I'm curious who your regular co-pilot is since you still have your permit. Something tells me dad might be a car guy? Lol

BTW I saw the car pic in your other thread. Black with those 20 inch wheels looks super nice.

 

[Junkyard Dog]

14 year old with a Harley.

Looked it up - it is true, but it comes with all sorts of restrictions. For instance, they have to stay under 35 mph. Also, 300cc maximum, which I am guessing that bike violates.

 

[Junkyard Dog]

Publix is 1 of them, and at my dads company which is in the healthcare industry. I do school virtually so I can work and do school whenever works best for me. I'm also making payments on the car and insurance, but the way it works is since its under my dads name (until when I'm 18 he will transfer the title) I will send him the money I owe him for my behalf of the payments every month. So technically from a legal perspective, its my dads car and he's letting me drive it, but he bought it for me. So yes, his name is on the loan paperwork.

Good for you. I worked from the time I was 14, both in jobs like that (grocery store, fast food) after school and in my local lawn cutting business (made a deal with my parents to use the mower if I would pay for all mower gas and maintenance and of course keep our own lawn mowed). I made more per hour mowing neighbors' lawns for myself than working for others at minimum wage, but I continued to do both because I had only so many customers in my neighborhood (and had to drag a push mower to them, which limited how far I could go expanding my customer list, lol).

I had to buy all of my own cars, though, so be very, very thankful to your parents, Rambo5.0h. It did, however, teach me where money comes from and how to save up!

And be careful!

Back in my high school days the fastest street heroes were running high 13s. I still remember the time I broke into the 12s, and I thought I had the fastest car, ever. And it was otherwise horrible to drive, very rough idle, overheating, pinging and dieseling in hot weather, plus the headers would always heat up the starter solenoid, so it would not want to start after it got hot. I would always look for a slight incline on which to park, let it start moving, and pop out the clutch to start the car when it was hot. And then the transmission was not long for the world because once you had the power to run 12s in the quarter mile the transmissions back then were simply not built to take it (Muncies were 320 to 390 lb ft rating, lol at the "Rockcrusher" urban legend, The T-10 later replacement was 375 lb ft, so it was only a matter of time before the clutch popping and power shifting fun would come to an expensive end).

The Dark Horse with handling package I own now would have beaten all my old cars with all of their modifications (even the short lived one with nitrous, lol) but idles smoothy and never overheats and has, gasp, working air conditioning (yeah, none of my cars back in the day had that useless luxury, LOL).

So enjoy, but please exercise prudent judgment. I hate to think of what would have happened to me if I had the car I have now as an old man when I was a teenager.

 

[Rambo5.0h]

2 jobs at 15 is very respectable. I'm curious who your regular co-pilot is since you still have your permit. Something tells me dad might be a car guy? Lol

BTW I saw the car pic in your other thread. Black with those 20 inch wheels looks super nice.

Appreciate it! My dad is usually the copilot and actually.. No! He's not a car guy at all unfortunately.

 

[Starship Enterprise]

not to derail this thread but, your 72 Camaro probably had moisture in the distributor cap. A quick shot of WD-40 (Water Displacement formula #40) inside the cap probably would have fixed you right up. I had a new 1983 ford escort that did the same thing, Brand new car, stalled every time it rained. Popped the distributor cap and it was loaded with moisture. Did the WD-40 trick and RTV'd that cap back on. Never had a problem in the rain after that. Ford later fixed the moisture prone distributor caps by installing a rubber boot around them.

Rambo5.0h good call on the car bud. Congrats.

I think I remember checking the dist. Cap and other things. I should also mention I saw my car directly hit by lightning watching from inside the store I was working at. It had some issues after that….lol. Funny, I had a 86 Escort.. What a hunk of poop. Bought it new too…

 

[LouG]

My parents do help with the monthly payment and insurance on the car, its about 50/50. However, gas, maintenance, aftermarket parts, literally ANYTHING except for the monthly payment and insurance I'm all by myself. I work 2 jobs to be able to afford my end.

Also thanks for the suggestion!

Good for you. But your personal finances are nobody else's business.
You seem to be a nice polite kid, but there is a time to tell some people to make love elsewhere.

 

[Rambo5.0h]

Thank you! Only reason I posted it is because I didn't want to look like a spoiled asshole who didn't do anything to help with the car

 

[LouG]

You better load up that M60 Rambo5.0, you're needed here.
I was a Driver Testing Officer for a while, you learn to tell by some kids attitudes eactly how they'll do before the driving test. Now I haven't met Mr Rambo, but I suspect he'll do pretty well on his learning curve.
BTW My first vehicle at 16 years old was a 1957 Triumph T Bird 650, it was a POS, wobbled like a pig at 100 mph on the clock, my parents said I was mad, it disassembled itself while riding along, and I survived crashing it.
It probably saved my life by sh**ting itself. And it taught me a lot about commonsense and having better taste in vehicles.

 

[Paul's stable]

I like how all grown up men try to advise the young kid, but we all know that we have to bump our heads first to understand how life is. The best way is to buy a beater for a couple of years for experience.

But since a 15 year kid can afford to drive a brand new Mustang, I guess for him/her it will be the same pain as if it wad for me when crashing a 1000 USD car as a kid.

I don't say everybody has to crash before becoming a good driver, but the chance it will happen is always there. Especially when you are young and new to the driving world.

As someone who when I was 16 had rich parents. So I bought then built a very fast car back in the day 1978. Guess what I crashed I just was not ready for a car that fast. However with age came experience and I learned how to drive fast cars. My current fast car is a 2024 Mustang Dark Horse 6spd with a Whipple.

 

[SmoothButter]

My parents also bought me a fast car (an old used one, but still fast nonetheless, and if they had the money they would have gotten me a newer one), hit a railroad track and got some airtime, drifted in the parking lot with my friends in the car, had so much fun, got a crazy ticket a few years later that cost me all the money I made one summer.

Fortunately didn’t get in any accidents. Have fun, don’t be toooo stupid lol, especially when it’s show off in front of the friends time.

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