Our children are TOTALLY into cars, we have 3 cars with only 2 seats, and it is waay tricky as to who goes. Our now 11 year old was with me driving out of the dealership in the GT... 1st car seats, then booster, now nothing, but the booster sometimes gets dusted off, for the 8 year old if he wants to see over the wiper!
My 3 year old gets so excited about my car........
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Vince H
GT Owner
My Seventeen year old daughter is into phones, friends, clothes, boys and pretty much everything that turns normal parents into insane lunatics. (Probably not in that order) She wants nothing to do with the GT and refuses to show it to her friends. My better half believes it's because if the boys saw the GT they would A) Come over and talk to me which gives me a chance to interview and form opinion on the young lads and B) Lets them know that whatever they drive will in no way impress my daughter. Consequently, I look for any and all reasons to drop her off in it. (Naturally)
2112
Blue/white 06'
You bring up some interesting points.
Recently in Autoweek, they discusses how teens no longer chomp at the bit to get their license. Whereas we saw a license as the ultimate freedom, they find their freedom on the phone (as you mentioned) the computer etc.
Recently in Autoweek, they discusses how teens no longer chomp at the bit to get their license. Whereas we saw a license as the ultimate freedom, they find their freedom on the phone (as you mentioned) the computer etc.
f4udriver
GT Owner
Boy I see a lot of similarities in this thread to my family.
My 16 year old got his license a month ago and tonight is only the second time he is driving without his parents. I remember when I was 16 I probably drove all day every day.
My kids are used to 100 mph speeds I remember once my daughter was in the Countach and I asked her if she knew how fast we were going. When I told her she just shrugged her shoulders as if it was normal, I think she was 6. Her favorite car is the GT.
I took my son out at the airport in the Corvette, the tires where getting replaced the next day so I wanted to show him how to do donuts. At first he wouldn't until I threatened him about his manhood. Anyway after his first good donut he just looked at me and said "I liked that", worried me a little but he is the son of a motorhead.
I have a rule anyone falls asleep in my vehicle I take a picture of them and show their friends. I have a lot of them. Lot's of times when we are flying some where I ask a question on the intercom and no one answers so I look around and I am the only one awake. Much preferred to have at least one person stay awake to keep dad alert.
But the biggest thing that is weird about kids and the times we are in. My kids steal my CD's. And the new cars they can afford suck so they are all looking for 60's and 70's cars and trying to figure out how to put new motors in to get reasonable mileage.
A couple weeks ago my son was with his buddies playing pool at my house listening to the same music I used to listen to (Boston, The cars etc). Some of the kids fathers were my friends 30 years ago. When I took 2 of them home in my high school car (72 Trans Am) they were playing the same music I used to listen to and they loved the same car I had and we were driving. Their fathers and I were doing the same thing in the same car a long time ago.
My 16 year old got his license a month ago and tonight is only the second time he is driving without his parents. I remember when I was 16 I probably drove all day every day.
My kids are used to 100 mph speeds I remember once my daughter was in the Countach and I asked her if she knew how fast we were going. When I told her she just shrugged her shoulders as if it was normal, I think she was 6. Her favorite car is the GT.
I took my son out at the airport in the Corvette, the tires where getting replaced the next day so I wanted to show him how to do donuts. At first he wouldn't until I threatened him about his manhood. Anyway after his first good donut he just looked at me and said "I liked that", worried me a little but he is the son of a motorhead.
I have a rule anyone falls asleep in my vehicle I take a picture of them and show their friends. I have a lot of them. Lot's of times when we are flying some where I ask a question on the intercom and no one answers so I look around and I am the only one awake. Much preferred to have at least one person stay awake to keep dad alert.
But the biggest thing that is weird about kids and the times we are in. My kids steal my CD's. And the new cars they can afford suck so they are all looking for 60's and 70's cars and trying to figure out how to put new motors in to get reasonable mileage.
A couple weeks ago my son was with his buddies playing pool at my house listening to the same music I used to listen to (Boston, The cars etc). Some of the kids fathers were my friends 30 years ago. When I took 2 of them home in my high school car (72 Trans Am) they were playing the same music I used to listen to and they loved the same car I had and we were driving. Their fathers and I were doing the same thing in the same car a long time ago.
Guess I'm lucky - my daughter loves her Maserati, my son loves 4-wheel offroading & son-in-law has a Z06 'vette. Of course, they are probably your ages. I'll have to see how the grandkids grow up.
Chris A.
GT #32
Vince H
GT Owner
She's going through the permit process to get her license now. She keeps hinting to me that all the kids in school want/drive Jeeps. Not the soft tops mind you, the Cherokee, Patriot Jeeps. JEEPS! I need an aspirin.