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that's an 'Oh Hell No' you can'tWhat in the hell is wrong with people/kids these days! In the last 2 years I've been asked 3 times to either lend or rent out my car to a kid for his high school prom! The first 2 I simply looked at and said it's a standard, end of discussion but this last one kind of pissed me off. I get a text message from a kid telling me how his mother (I barely know) said I had some cool cars that he may be able to borrow, WTF! I can see kids being this naive but a grown adult?
Do these people seriously think that a completely rust free and well running Charger is a $3,000 beater, do they not understand the time, labor and money involved? If that's not bad enough do they forget what Prom is... parking, drinking, partying... being surrounded by juveniles!!
I don't get it!
not any collector car or car with as much $$$
& work we have put into these piles of cash, with 4 wheels
even if it wasn't a high dollar value car
to even presume that is ludicrous
for an adult to have any kid ask that,
even closely related family, they better have something invested in it
that's just rude & wrong
very few people I'd even let drive my 02 F350 4x4 diesel dually
or my 99 Dakota 4x4,
let alone a teenage kid drive 'my RR' to his prom
"FAT FREAKEN' CHANCE"
Now if the kid was over helping build it every day
& has something invested it, that may be a different story...
I've had a couple of the neighbor's kids show interest in my cars/trucks
they know it's (the RR) not just a run-of-the-mill "Camary" etc.
I've been known to help out local kids, good kids...
I've taught a few how to drive a stick in the dually...
(Shea the teenage HS kid across the street did too, he ended up buying
a 05 Mustang V6 5 speed manual, where did I go wrong? Just Kidding
he's done some work to it already, out polishing & cleaning all the time
he's now done a cat-back exhaust & tuner, tried to fix the stereo
he's blacked out the wheels, good job too (not my choice, cars black too)
But, he's going to be a gearhead, his grampa who use to live in that house
was a gearhead car guy, had a couple of cool cars too, it's in the blood...
Also, his friends have some decent newer cars too,
stuff they can afford, they actually work on, good to see the hobby isn't dying)
But;
My "pride & joy" something I have years & hrs invested in
& pretty decent amounts of $$$, NO, NOT going to happen
I'll gladly take them for a ride, maybe even a hell-ride, beat run
they ain't driving it, not out of my sight even if they did...
Gladly help them on their cars & teach them stuff too...
I was a teenager once too, I wasn't born yesterday...
Borrowing a man's 'collector car', is like trying to use/fondle his wife/girlfriend
or it's like kicking his dog, stealing his booze/$$$, you just don't do it...
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