I was a bit of an unruly and defiant kid. I started working at 13 because I wanted a mk4 supra lmao. My parents split and I needed a car for school, at 15 we started shopping and my dad was going 50/50. Well he was given a 66 Impala SS from his dad and traded that in for a 68 Torino GT that he put side pipes on and bought a turbo kit for. Surely he'll let me go wild right?
After looking at my savings and playing NFS Hot Pursuit I decided on a 91 S13 240sx that I was going to swap an SR20DET into (RB25DET was too expensive then) with a 5spd swap. It was perfect, I planned every single part, step, and cost down to the tax on individual bolts. I would've covered the entire car + swap with just my share and my dad was willing to give me his 3k for mods. Awesome!
Day before I was going to buy it, my dad came with to see it and did a complete 180. No more sports car, I was
only gonna have a 4dr automatic family car or I wouldn't live under his roof. He loved Acura so I ended up with a MINT 03 TL with 27k original miles (in 2012) with an extended warranty. I loathed that car haha. The nose dived every time you touched the brakes, had an indecisive automatic trans, the body rolled like a boat and it felt like the most uncool car ever at 16. I drove that thing so hard every single day and would neutral drop the trans like an idiot, but the car never complained. Wrecked it few months later, amazingly not when I was sending it (99% of the time) and just wrote it off. I didn't realize how great that thing was until after I got into college, wish I had some pics of the plasti-dip emblems and wheels
