ya i hopen my insurance wont be to much. right nowmy camaro is not insured because im onley 14 and it dosent drive to much but i need to get it insured when i get my perment (in a month or so hopfully) and my parents wont pay cause my grades r.. well right now im in math class but im on the website so im sure u can figure what my grades r like lol so im hopen it wont b to much caue i dont have eny way to make money

 

2800?? Holy crap dude lol. For my fourth gen (350) its roughly 1700 a year. Theres gotta be something wrong somewhere. I also have my winter beater (sunfire gt) and thats somewhere around 1400 a year. I think you need a new insurance company

 

That does seem a bit high..

 

Yea wow $2,800 for a single year is outrageous! That's over $200 per month. Even BEFORE I got the classic policy on my Camaro and it was just a regular full coverage policy with $100 deduction for collision and $250 deduction for comprehensive, insured against uninsured drivers, road side assistance, medical coverage, and all the other good stuff, it was only like $100 a month, give or take a few dollars. State Farm Insurance for the win. Now my monthly bill is $16 for the Z28, fully insured with all that stuff.

 

LOL when i first got my Trans-Am i was quoted $6,800 per year!!!!!
but that is because i was 18 only had my licence for 1 year and had a fully imported V8.

 

i started driving my dads 87 iroc when i was 16 then later that year i got my 87 gta. cool thing is both my third gens are the same year and almost same color. im 19 now, and waiting for winter to be over!

 

hell yea!!! im so glad to see all these young guys buying their own kick *** cars! my friends are all spoiled and got nice cars from their parents, so i decided i'd work my *** off for 2 years and got myself an 83 firebird with a 400 small block chevy...they were pissed! Mwahaha! Conrats guys!

 

damn right... bought my baby for $1800 and put some money into her and swapped the L03 for the L05

 

Agreed, I cant stand people who have things just handed to them, they usually have a lot less respect for them.

 

well since every1 else is doing it i will too lol

i started buying cars when i was 15, i bought my first TA january of 06

i drove this car about 1 month and blew the transmission, i sat and thought about what i should do for around 2 months and decided to sell it , i found the car today and am in the process of trying to get it back. my next car was a mustang


it was a 98, pi intake manifold, o/r xpipe, flows, and a powerdyne running 6lbs of boost, i sold the car for 7k and the blower for 1k a week later, this was purchased may 21st of 06(just before my 16th bday) and sold january 2nd of 08
my next car was back on the fbody side of things


this car was purchased modded, and i blew the motor up the 2 days after i bought it (so january 4th of this year as i bought it the day i sold the mustang). i then sold the car to a family member at a very reasonable price and went ahead and got a more family oriented car


this car was purchased last friday at an auction for 800 dollars, runs good, but i bought it with the intentions of DD it while i get either another 3rd gen or 4th gen to tear into(which is why im back on this site after a 2 year vacation)...

and the reason for the peon


and guys, im 17, ive been working and paying for these cars all alone for the past couple years, and i intend to do it for quite some time, insurance has always been with my parents being primary so i can afford to mod my cars or else i get angry and sell them .

 

holy ****...when i was 17 I was still pimping out my trycicle...errrr BMX....and doing a bunch of drugs **** I didnt even know how to drive or give much of a damn about cars, they were like something my parents drove me around in....whoa...u guys are hardcore...uhhh engine swapping at 15 years old???? 15 YEARS OLD??? what the hell lol...I barely had the mental capacity to use a wrench at that age. (Not dissin 15 year olds, but i was a different 15 year old lol)

did i like miss my teen years or something

This thread is depressing...very

Im 20 years old and I bought my Firebird SE 305 V8 for $500 Cnd just a few months ago...yet i can't afford to do ANYTHING at all to it cause im going back to school.

I drive the **** out of it tho and abuse it...i feel like a terribly aggressive driver but this cars a blast.

Life sucks yo

Why...are ....alll....third gen owners soooooo young...these seem like cars middle aged people would be ALLL OVER (my dad?)...since u knw...they probly had them as kids....but no? this is trippy guys

and 17 years old with a baby buying sellin moddin cars left and right? whooaaaa...props man...u eithier got a good head on your shoulders or rich parents or something

nuts

**** i live on my own and can't even afford to feed myself sometimes let alone car parts..

Please tell me...what are you young kids doing these days to get so far ahead at such a young age?

 

lol, ya alot of people think what i do with my cars is pretty dumb but i tend to end up breaking pretty close to even, i got a couple people trying to buy the neon for 1400, which is a good profit for a car i only have for a couple days... my parents are far from rich, they split up when i was young, mom is unemployed and my dad is retired military... i just work for civilian services on my local Airforce base, pays the bills nicely

 

Wicked man, I'm a network technician but i make BS money...but i always will untill i go back to school...which probly another 5 or 6 years then longer untill i have any sort of money for cars.

Even tho your selling your cars cause they blow up...I still never understood why some people buy cars and try to sell them higher prices...i mean while your waiting to sell it your out that money u bought it for anyways??? and yet even if you do sell it for more...the cost of fixing it up will add up over any kind of profit???

I just cant understand that...seems like to much hassle for to little gain

But props mang...

 

I've been saving up for college since I was very young (all my birthday money, ect), then when I was 14 my parents decided that 3 grand won't go very far for college so they let me spend some of it

 

so i guess i started the official "1st car thread"

 

i just do it for fun man, usually i can turn a few hundred bucks outta them, but sometimes i dont care how much i get for them. i buy and sell cars so i can always try somthing different and dont get really bored of them.

 

When I turned 16 my mom said I need to stop playing video games and get a job. So I got one job and she said I still played video games too much and I need to either study more or get a second job. Since I hate studying, I opted for the second job. So here I am... two jobs, 16 years old, and making 150-200 a week.

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It also helps that my dad is a gear head and is willing to help me out with many things. For example, he is willing to split the cost of some R-compound tires with me since I plan on letting him race it every now and again.

 

nice cars man

 

i went to ur car page and your car sounds nice

i was 15 when i first got my 86 iroc z28, i'm 16 now and drive it on a daily basis, with an amazing system! two 12's and a mean huge amp. I absolutely love my car. Though it does need a lot of adjustments, the interior is in a decent condition, needs a new paint job, and im looking for the original rims for it also(PM ME if you know who is selling) also need a couple body parts. I love my car and don't intend to sell it. ever. Also where can i look to check if i have a 305 or a 350?? too be to technical im not a greasemonkey lol im wanting to learn a lot of things about cars tho.

 

So have you traded your "video game addiction" for becoming a gear head yet ??

I dont know where you work, but you should really look into doing something part-time at an oil change or tire shop. I loved working in a shop!

 

Well you can add me to this list as well. Bought my first car when i was 17. Originally the guy wanted 4700 because he said he put a new true dual exhaust on it, but i knew the body wasn't mint, so i eventually talked him down to 3200.

So far i've already put in a 355 in place of the 305.



out with the old



being replaced by this sucker.

 

obviously i also have an 86 iroc. you have a 305...assuming thats the original motor. 350's didnt come out until 87

 

I'm still into video games but I have stopped playing most shooters and such and buy mostly racing games (Gran Turismo 3&4, need for speed, midnight club...).

I'm a UC (utility clerk... a.k.a. "Bag boy") and I work at a place called Fun Services. I set up the giant bounce houses and inflatable stuff like that. I was thinking about getting into the automotive field but I figured I would just make it a hobby and focus on what I want to do after college (Architect). Since I already have two jobs, I'm pretty busy trying not to tick off my employers saying "oh sh**" I am already scheduled to work at my other job on that day.

 

I got my 1988 firebird with it's wimpy *** 2.8 from a boneyard shortly after I turned 16. It's currently my DD with horrible mileage and all.

I bought my Z28 from a cop . Just got it goin, and I finally have some V8 power under the hood, and I gotta tell ya - it feels good.

Oh yeah -

My god. I pay a little over 300/yr. for the insurance on my Z28.

It's listed as my "secondary driver" and only has liability. It's a sweet deal.

The 88 'bird is the primary and it runs me a little over 600 a year.

*sorry guys - I responded to a post on the last page

 

This car here has been a work in progress since january 06' when i was only 16 years old.

The picture here was taken less than a week after it was finished.

 

I am 18 and i just bought this 1984 Z28

 

congratulations and welcome to the site

 

Thank you Sir

 

well yall im 17 i got a 92 camaro [pretty nice] a 1986 monte carlo SS[pretty bad shape] an 87 supra turbo[bad valve seals] and a 2000 z71 all paid for but my parents did help me out with all of it but i still take care of my stuff

 

I am 16 and I also got my first camaro(1989) except its a 2.8 but I aint complaining I love that car. Its good to know other young guys are into camaros as well. I also have a 86 300zx but it aint running. I guess I like the idea of T-tops.

I would really like to see some pics of that 87 supra turbo. those cars are sweet.

 

Rather than make a new thread, I decided to bump my old one with some recent updates I've been doing. The car looks bad now but I finally got it running good by swapping sensors/prom/injectors over to 350 spec since I found out a 350 was swapped in. Previous owners just bolted in a 350(looks like a truck motor) and hooked up all the original 305 equipment.

I put Pioneer DEH-6400BT Bluetooth head units in both of my cars, this is the pic from the blazer but it's exactly the same, minus the color scheme which I made blue in the camaro.



Recently found a borg warner 3.27 posi and aluminum driveshaft off of a GTA (non pbr brakes) from the junkyard, got the proportion valve too of course.



The brakes, control arms, and shocks had to be cut or broken off. Fluid was a little dark but no shavings at all.



Decided to hit it with a wire real quick and give it a couple quick coats of paint so it will look better when it's underneath the car and no one can see it.



Also decided to go with LT1 rear brakes since everything including lines needed to be replaced. More pics when that stuff comes in, or I do more work to the car.

Most recent pic with my back-up vehicle

 

Car looks great! For some reason I really like the look of the flat black front ground effects.

 

Keep it up!!

 

ya the original one got torn up, this is just an unpainted replacement piece. I keep saying I will get it painted but it may never happen.
Thanks guys! Thought the car was running well but now some issues have popped up, so rich it's blowing smoke out the tailpipes at idle, fuel pressure good have some more troubleshooting. So frustrating, I just want to get back to driving it everyday.