i say sell the 7 to make ur mom happy, then when u move out buy another 7.
im 19 i live with my parents, the cops took my car the other day bcuz i was a spectator at the ontario races, and she was a lil upset bcuz she knows im just giving money to the cops by paying tickets n paying the towing company 400 to get my car out, but i pay my own bills, so she can care less.
but if your mom has rules and she dont want the car there, sell it then buy another one as soon as u move out (if ur a true fc lover).

 

Interesting advice. So...he should love the car and not street race ever again. What do you insist he do with the car? Commute with it and enjoy the bad gas mileage, ugly old interior, harsh ride and unwanted attention?

OP: If you pay for 100% of your **** like you say it was completely out of line for her to do what she did. If you're doing good in school and doing something with your life what the hell does a few nights of you being in jail mean to her? At least you're not out drinking and driving or drug dealing or doing coke. Call me heartless or whatever but some people just do NOT deserve to be able to reproduce. I'm 20 and I have dealt with my rather large share of mis-haps. I have learned how to deal with myself when something goes wrong, and I'm definitely not intelligent in any way. The lack of maturity shown by older folks is AMAZING sometimes, it almost makes me feel privileged for growing up in a less than ideal environment and being forced to mature at a faster rate.

If she's angry at you for something you did, shouldn't she really be angry with herself for not establishing proper communication with her son and preventing all of this? But excuse me, that would be the *GROWN UP* thing to do

 

Just get the TA and build up a nasty small block for it.

My buddy had a 3rd gen with a stock 305 that he ran a 12.4 in. All he had was a 150 shot and some drag radials.

 

Uh, this from a prematurely 'mature' 20 year old who thinks that you should *blame* your parents for your troubles? Judging 'older folks' maturity with all the historical and life perspective of a...20 year old?

All I can say to this is you deserve children just like yourself, and you will probably get them. Ask me how I know. Wait till you try to 'establish communication' with a 19 to 20 year old to prevent them from being an *idiot*.

 

Oh, im sorry i was unaware that if you had a nice car you had to race, ill keep that in mind, i better go do some street racing tonight With your logic, if i get my 69 mstang running i might as well give it away, the interior is outdated, the gas mileage is horrible and its fast as hell, oh thank god i didnt get wrapped up in likin the car because its rare and not many people have one. Thank god i gave up before i finished it and got all that unwanted attention. You just saved my life man.

 

Sounds like a bunch of pansies. If you own it and want to keep it then move out, other wise your just another ricer kid who lives at home. His parents should have kicked the crap out of him and your telling him to sue his mom?? What in the world is going on here??



"Street racing" is not cool, it's not a secrete underground lifestyle, it's reckless driving on public roads. You should drive a geo.

 

well, i love my t2, but i also respect her decision to do what she did.
i cannot blame her for feeling that way, at least she gave a ****.
yes, i am nearly done college go to school full time, and work full time,
i finance everything for, on and the cars themselves completely, so basically
both the 240 and the 7 were cars i intended to use for purely track purposes.
but dont get me wrong i dont dog my **** out, i take the best care i can of it, which i a couple ways im leaning to sell it or trade it for now, and i will def own another one after i get a degree.
but for now until im finished school.. the car is that car that i went to jail in, and go in trouble in, and is wreckless and loud, to them anything is better than that.

 

Too right you are.

 

So if you Jwalked would your mom hit you with a hammer?

 

Wow, sorry I wasn't aware of you and your rock n roll lifestyle You must enjoy dumping your income into a car so you can enjoy its rarity WOW guys, what do you angels do with your cars? Drive them slowly to the dragstrip/autocross/road course and back?

Where the **** did I say anything about blaming? Funny how all you can do is laugh at my age and make false judgments. You must think your opinion as an grumpy old **** that bitches on RX7club all day must mean something to me. I've seen enough real-life examples to know when a someone has been raised right and when not, but believe what you will. As for raising a kid I am confident that I will have no problem. Don't mistake me for being like you or anyone you have ever met. You have no idea where I am from, nor are you making any accurate assumptions. You should step back and remember to take your medication before you start posting, old man.

 

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!!!

Seriously though that just shows how immature your parents are. Smashing your car with a hammer? That's just plain white trash yo.

 

Well, first i must say your not very bright for street racing... But anyway, I'm sure your family has gotten that point across...


You should stash your title away. I will come steal your car and then when your 18 and out of their house let me know and you can have it back, we will just say oh look I found it hahaha

anyway do what you gotta do. if the transam has a 305 or 350, or on the rare occassion a pontiac 400 you have lots of power options... Or you can go sign up for some V8 forum and **** them all off by dropping a 13b in one of there prize cars.. Thats what i plan on doing... Sorry to those of you who gave up on a rotary and desecrated an rx7 by putting an ls1 in it... (ok im not really sorry but still)

 

first off you are all ridiculous and posting things that are way off topic having your little side arguements.

and those of you saying "telling him to sue is mom is wrong" just shut up yes its his mother his blood his family. but even that doesn't mean they can get away with whatever. suing is a little extreme i agree but i would call the cops and press charges for vandalism. i don't care who the person is family of not mother or father they break my stuff (expensive personal stuff) purposely whether pissed or not whether or not i did something that gave them a good reason to be irate. i would call the cops. any mature responsible adult should be able to keep themselves from destroying property.

now on topic: dude i am going through the same thing i didn't go to jail for street racing. but i did get my license suspended for doing 110 on the highway. my mom hates my car (well she hated it before that) but even more so now. she didn't smash my window or anything (thank god) i would have called the cops on her in a heartbeat. and im sure if it sat any longer she would have called chp to haul it off.(me and my mom don't get along at all yet she is my mom and i still love her) but my suggestion is just let it go and get another one in the end. im tearing mine apart right now im keeping the engine since it has less then 10k on it. but just focus on paying off the courts for now. and move out. your relationship with your mom will actually grow if your out of the house.

 

honestly who cares?

You were dumb and got arrested...

Your mom smashed your windshield...

your thinking about getting a Trans/AM..

Who really cares. Just take care of your life, make your own decisions and don't bother getting this sort of advice and feedback from a bunch of people you don't even know. Get advice from friends and family (from the looks of it, your mom already gave you some advice).

 

DO NOT DO THIS!!! Stick with your KA motor Trust me I have beat the hell out of 2 KA motors both of which I got after they had 150k on them plus. They are incredibly realible and near bulletproof motors and since we arent talking rotary here, there is no replacement for displacement... KA24de or ka24det are far superior to the sr20s or ca18dets. Their stock internals are good for 300-400 hp And the parts are much more availible than the others. anyway... if you have a spun bearing find a block for your 240.. Screw the civic.

 

Just jumping in here, but you need to calm down. You've made more false assumptions and ignorant statements several times in this thread than anyone else.

"shouldn't she really be angry with herself for not establishing proper communication with her son and preventing all of this?"

Shows either arrogance or ignorance, I don't know: "but some people just do NOT deserve to be able to reproduce"

"LOL I didn't wanna say it..." in reference to someone saying that "that is some hardcore white trash ****"

"out of judgment I am going to assume that they pay for all of your cars." false.

"Interesting advice. So...he should love the car and not street race ever again. What do you insist he do with the car? Commute with it and enjoy the bad gas mileage, ugly old interior, harsh ride and unwanted attention?" So what do you do with your rx7?

"it was completely out of line for her to do what she did" there you go placing blame.

I don't know what your problem is with the OP. I've seen much more stupid **** on this forum, like when a kid is asking what to do with his bent a-arm, becuase he hit a curb while drifting on public roads. Most responses are "sorry dude" or "that sucks man". Out of the blue comes white trash comments. Why? Because this guy is from NO? Because his mom got understandably angry and damaged his car? Re-read the first page. Several of ignorant post from several people.

For every one of him, there's probably 200 other kids on this forum driving cars that mommy and daddy bought them. When they wreck it being dumbasses, do you jump on them saying that their parents should sue them and call them immature?

I'm sorry for your unpleasant upbringing. You do not understand the OP, you do not understand his position, and most of all you do not understand what his mother is going through. As a person suposively experienced hard time, then you should come to the conclusion that his mother may be in a situation where she is extremely stressed out. For all I know, they are probably in a bad financial situation from Katrina, having lost almost everything. Maybe she's a single mother. Maybe you're not mature enough to know how financially fucked EVERYBODY is right now. Medical bills, insurance, retirement, employment, etc. Maybe the one thing she was relying on was her son earning a degree and helping her out of bad times. Then her son is in jail (where she can't "communicate" with him) for doing a dangerous activity! Hell yeah, I'd be pissed. It's called a family. The OP is doing the right thing and agreeing with his mom. I'm sorry that you don't understand this. I'd do anything for my mom. She raised my *** for 18 years and helped through my tough times. **** a $200 windshield.

Anyway, I'm just another old guy getting kicks off insulting people. At least I'm not a ignorant **** like several people that have replied to this thread.

 

^^Get back to work you old ****!!!

 

I had to take my afternoon nap..... buy my car.

 

i agree with you 100 percent except his mom still should not have smashed his windshield. she was definitely understandably angry and for good reason. but smashing a windshield adds to your financial hardship. yeah it relieves your stress i would know. but if you are already having a hard time financially (not saying there are)why go add to it by making something else you have to pay for. and if they were devistated by the hurricanes they have enough **** they gotta pay to fix.

but other then that i agree totally with what you are saying.

 

Regarding post #66:

I don't recall being the first one to say that he was white trash, I noticed the beat up Chevys in the pictures and trailer-like house behind them, came to the conclusion and agreed. Everyone's view of "white trash" is subjective, a beat up T/A parked on grass with the headlights flipped up and red seat covers alone do it for me. This isn't an assumption, its an opinion. I also didn't BLAME his mom for his problems as stated by jackchild. What you quoted is my opinion of his mom's actions. Going to jail and having to pay fines is HIS problem, not his mom's. As long as he is going to college and doing what his mom wants she has no say in what he does. A stupid ticket for driving fast and a couple days in jail? Who gives a ****. Pretty dumbass reason to **** up his car, looks like she was relieving some of her own stress.

Everything besides me assuming that his parents buy him his cars is invalid, perhaps you would like to further elaborate as to how they have been proven to be false. Also I only believed his financial situation for the sake of this argument, maybe you can tell me what type of entry level part time job can finance an 08 Civic ($10k), a 240 ($1k) and a turbo II FC ($4k) and years of college tuition, books, living expenses, gas, etc.

I never called the kid an idiot, only offered CONSTRUCTIVE advice, just like in the other thread where the kid crashed his car. If a PARENT posted here saying his/her son crashed an FD they bought him I would tell them to sue him too. I could care less about the kids situation and probably wouldn't bother posting.

I understand your point about the economy and the financial mess everyone is in and will leave it at that since I haven't yet had to deal with the added responsibilities from supporting a family. I do know that with the life-threatening situations I have been forced to deal with I never once resorted to physical violence. Punched a wall, a punching bag, a car, used the extra energy and adrenaline CONSTRUCTIVELY, but NEVER damaged someone else's property. Reducing stress means making extreme decisions that ensure that the problem will never arise again, trying to prevent this and "making things work" is what causes stress.

Don't assume the kid even was involved in a dangerous activity, he himself claimed he wasn't. You also shouldn't assume that he was in jail for a significant enough time for his mom to flip out. Most charges like this end up to be a night or two. I still stand behind my belief that relieving anger in a physical manner is only teaching your offspring to do the same.

 

Hey, boy, you really get funny when you are mad. You remind me of a little kid that puts on his daddy's work boots and hat then says "Look at me, I am a big boy! "

I didn't make any assumptions. I didn't have to. Everything I know about you is what you posted in this thread, and I NAILED your sad, bitter parent blaming butt. You oozed lots of your bitterness typed it for all to see. You also advised how you would react if you were the op. You would continue to rebel against your mom and you would sue her. And then you insult me for bonus points, well at least as much as a 20 year old can!

If you were capable of learning, you might learn that when the whole world seems to be against you, you are probably wrong.

You are following a hard path. This is your choice.

Edit: I still think this thread belongs in the Lounge.

 

Well spoken! Heh heh heh.


You know what TongassT? If you were his dad, he would hate you too. That is who he is at this stage of his life. I love the part where he is so confident about his future child raising skills.

One of my sons (at age 12 or so) told me he was going to call CPS on me because I was being so cruel to him. I explained that it would be a permanent situation for him, then I dialed the phone and handed it over. Fish or cut bait.

And that put a stop to all that. His life suddenly looked pretty good. He turned out just fine.

To the OP: Consider your advisors well. Do the right thing, focus on your education.

Good Luck!

 

A caring parent.

Your kidding right?! If you do this to your kid, let me know and I'll nominate you for the parent of the year award. This is kind of going to what jackhild was saying, that you do not understand what it is to be a parent.

+1. But that event is insignificant in this situation, which the OP is mature enough to realize.

 

And violently bashing the windshield of the car that your son works his *** off to keep is FAR from being a good parent.

Jackchild: Your son and I probably have nothing in common in the way we were raised. Your reaction will not justify my invasion of privacy after sharing my past, so I will leave it at that. Re-read post #60, paragraph 2. There was no "choice".

I believe there is no reason to argue further as all of this is subjective, everyone has their own beliefs.

 

let me straighten one thing out this second before anyone else posts.
i was not street racing nor do i condone or do it on the street.
this is not a hobby of mine in any way, shape or form.
reckless driving, yes i let the clutch out too fast, and it did chirp,
but unless i was racing a honda odessy, there was no way to support this ticket.