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18 y/o Too Young For a Terminator?
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I caught grief from my wife for not letting my 18yr old drive my cobra (accept once in a while under supervision). ... Kid has always been very responsible. good grades, Eagle scout etc...
A few months later my daughter pointed out a FB video (taken by one of his friends) where was driving like a jack@ss and trying to do pitifull dougnuts in his saturn SL1. Furthermore, the timing corresponeded exactly with a broken motor mount, that just 'happened' randomly!
I pointed out to my wife, that those stunts could have easily gotten him killed or in jail if he was driving a car with real power.
Reality is.. Nearly all young men will push the envelope and do stupid $hit behind the wheel. (I certainly did). I would even go out on a limb and suggest the OP has went a little wild with his car, at least once or twice. (non rainy day only)
... How much rope do you want to give a kid before they figure out they are not invincable?
this. i definitely would have killed myself if i had a vehicle like that when i was 18. you do think you're invincible and that you know everything. i was a decent driver but was still learning how the way the driving world works. like making a left turn into a parking lot in heavy traffic. just because lanes 1 2 and 3 stop for you doesnt mean there isnt someone in lane 4 (next to the curb) who is going to come hauling ass down that lane and right into your passenger side. guess who's fault that was? :kaboom: many things come with years of driving experience. of course, what happened to me can happen in any car but with experience comes good judgment.
hell i still used poor judgment a few times with my 03 when i was 30! lol. albeit i could really handle the car very well by then.
with my gt500 i have had her break loose a couple of times and was able to keep control of it. due to years of driving experience. no way i could have when i was 18. i would wreck for sure. and im not talking about driving like an ahole. im talking about driving out of a parking lot with a little gusto with not too sticky of tires. with a ton of torque and little traction its easy for things to go south quickly. look at all the 2013/14 gt500s being wrecked, and by guys three times your age op lol.
id never put my kid in a car like that unless i was in the passenger seat, unless they had racing experience as mentioned. im buying my kid a big, slow tank for their first car lol
and what if the 18 year old (any 18 year old) gets caught in the rain while driving a rwd beast?? or just a wet road. we've seen plenty of nasty accidents with these cars in similar situations with much older drivers.
Maybe some can... I would have crashed if I had one.
Long story short, he was being chase by a Police helicopter. Made awesome vids back in the time when a tune pulley Cobra was almost unbeatable.
LOL saw his vids over on fuelslut. That is when I started visiting over here. I didn't sign up until a few years later.
It's a damn mustang, not a lambo. Drive the thing
Here's when he was new and wanting an '03 Cobra: http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/search.php?searchid=180394&pp=&page=4
Do a member search of Blades and see his later posts with some of his videos.
Do a member search of Blades and see his later posts with some of his videos.
Linky no workey
Hmm, just go to Community and click on member list and look until you find Catch Me Copper and Blades.
Too young. Trade it in for a prius.
Lol!
It has allot to do with personality type. If you're irresponsible, a risk taker, impulsive a Terminator just might terminate you. If you're cautious, calculated, respect power a Terminator will fair well with you as the owner.
newp.
Not enough experience to react to the situations a 400+whp car can attain.
You have two main variables:
1) the person who gets a car like that, and goes apeshit. They put themselves at more risk, but in doing so, they gain experience quicker by figuring out how to get out of certain situations, granted they dont find themselves wrapped around a tree first.
2) the person who babies it and only goes balls out once in a great, great while. They put themselves at less risk, but that one time they do need the experience to get them out of a situation, it will not be there yet.
Not enough experience to react to the situations a 400+whp car can attain.
You have two main variables:
1) the person who gets a car like that, and goes apeshit. They put themselves at more risk, but in doing so, they gain experience quicker by figuring out how to get out of certain situations, granted they dont find themselves wrapped around a tree first.
2) the person who babies it and only goes balls out once in a great, great while. They put themselves at less risk, but that one time they do need the experience to get them out of a situation, it will not be there yet.
And the first shot is fired!
personally I think so
but if my parents would have offered me one there is no way in hell I would say no
but if my parents would have offered me one there is no way in hell I would say no
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Its been pretty well documented that risk assessment is not fully developed in your brain until you are quite a bit over 18. No doubt, there is variability, in nearly all things. Even a kid who tends to be careful could be prone to laps in judgement. Peer pressure from jack@ss friends or trying to hard to impress some chick.
My 19yr old daughter was determined to have a sportbike. She is off on her own going to school, so I have limited leverage. She saved up and bought a Ninja250 last year. Within 2 weeks, she was rear-ended. minior scrapes and bruises and a $3,800 insurance check..... A month later she went out and bought a low mileage Ninja 650 for $3,400. I did all I could do to a) talker her out of it,.. and then b) talk to her about riding safetely and conservatively. I would get the eye roll when I would remind her about how dangerous it was.
...It was Last December when my phone rang at 5am in the morning. She had been in the hospital all night. Broken clavical, broken wrist, jacked up knee with a torn ACL. The only reason she finally called me, was they were about to take her into surger to repair her knee. She completely broke down in tears, because she did not want to admit to me that she lost control of the bike when it started raining and she was taking an off ramp too fast.
Fortunately, she is doing ok. She know has two >14" scars that will be a constant reminder that she is not incincible.
BTW.. She is still bugging be to help here fix whats left of her bike. Really the only reason I paid the tow compay $400 to claim the wreckage is that I wanter her to have to see the wrecked bike sitting in her garage. Also, her stubborn determination to 'fix' it will actually take her longer than if she just sold off the parts and saved up for a new one.
I guess kids just have to learn things the hard way...
riding in the rain is absolutely crazy. The contact patch size between bike and asphalt is retardedly small as it is, put water between it? **** that noise. She has some balls to even attempt it, I rode for a bit and if it started raining, **** that I quit. Id park it under an awning or something and wait it out rather than try to navigate wet roads on 2 square inches of contact patch.
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