Average age of Coupe owners!

[losenone]

Im 22. Got my first car at 18, it was a 97' Grand Prix that eventually blew up lol. Got this car after trading in a leased 04 Altima. Put 15K down and financed the rest. I pay for everything on the car (payments, insurance, maitenence, gas, mods lol). Except the intake my dad is gonna buy me after asking me what i wanted for xmas

[ThatGuyRoger]

24 now, but i got my first truck at 17, it was my dad's 1992 chevy P/U 1500 then last may i got the A/C

[JDRosenberg07]

Since this thread is comin back to life...lol

I got my first car when i turned 17, it was a 93' 325i that we got for 4k (dont hate it wasnt mint at all...lol) i paid about 1k and my parents paid the rest. i paid for gas and insurance and repairs (stupid leaky valve gasket killed 3 of my spark plugs... twice!..lol) I got my A/C in feb right before i turned 19. i traded my 325i (gave me a grand for it) i put down $1,250 and my rents matched it (my dad also co-signed) so altogether put 4k down with trade..I pay for everything on it, payments, gas, insurance, mods, maintenance you name it.

Ill be 20 in a couple months

[Rmuth25]

16. First car.

Yikes, ones first car is not supposed to be nice, in fact it should be crappy and an adventure to keep running. Atleast that is what my dad told me.

[Rmuth25]

Speaking of first cars, my first car was a 1989 Chevy Corsica hatchback. My Grandpop bought it new, but like 2 months after he got it he got a severe stroke and couldn't drive anymore, so it sat in his garage only to be driven like once a month for the next 7 or so years. Then when my dad needed a new car he took the Corsica, and then when I started driving when I was 16 my dad gave me the Corsica. I finally got the Altima coupe a little over a year ago when my dad needed a new car and since I had alot of money saved up my parents/grandparents helped me pay for the rest of it and then my dad got the Corsica back. Then in June some douche rear ended my dad, totalling the Corsica and then my dad got a new Jeep Grand Cherokee(10k off MSRP may I add, quite a deal).

So in other words, my first car had a quite eventful life.

But talk about terrible engineering. Everything on that car went bad except the transmission. The engine was replaced/rebuild at like 120k, alternator went bad several times, radiator was replaced twice, air conditioning system was redone, exhaust system, water pump you name it and it was probably broke. That was back when GM and all the numskulls in Detroit were building cars to break, since repairs/parts were so profitable. Boy did that strategy every backfire!!!

[Rmuth25]

Not to mention cramming a 2.8L V6 into that tiny engine compartment wasn't exactly the smartest thing to do. Replacing the spark plugs and wires was quite an adventure as well as the radiator too.

[Ferguson]

LOL, you're all puppies! I bought (on my own) my first car at 18... a new 1972 Datsun 510! Which I traded a year later for a new 1973 240Z.

If you do the math, you'll see that I'm now 55. And still lovin a fun ride!

You're only as old as you act!

[Rmuth25]

There she is....poor ol corsica!!!

And here is the guy who hit him. No real noticable damage outside the fascia and the headlights, but our mechanic was telling me that it might have to be totaled since there was some signifcant damage to the frame in the front. . .hahaha

[alteredbeast]

Hey everybody, been reading threads for months now but I'm just starting to post. My first car was a pretty run down '94 Honda Accord Sedan M/T. I made the best of what I had tho. I put a new radio and projector headlights on it (original headlights were really crappy and foggy). That was going good until someone stole that and took my radio and projectors LOL. So after a long Summer of hard work, driving to and from work with no radio, my dad helped me get my A/C and I love it. I'm 20 years old and a junior in college and I work my a** off.

By the way, I won't be counted in that spoiled category cuz I can't remember the last time someone paid for something for me. If anything, I may have spoiled myself tho...

Also, all u guys seem really cool, and I can't wait to get some real nice mods done on my A/C. I'm kinda starting to wish I lived in SoCal after seeing the pics from that meet!

P.S. If anyone's talkin bout havin a meet somewhere in or around the Houston area, please let me kno!

[lindas08]

Dang! I'm 51, paying for it myself, and NEVER had a car or insurance or gas paid for me! I don't remember my friends parents buying them cars either. Maybe we were poor and didn't know it!!!!

[Ferguson]

Two of us over 50! Anyone else want to own up?

[Bmore-coupe]

Not over 50, only 27, but proud to say that ive never had a thing paid for by anyone else. i honestly cant figure out how all of these kids get their parents to pay for everything.im not saying that i wouldnt take it if it was handed to me either, but my parents are pretty well off and wouldnt buy me $hit except for on birthdays and christmas. i have had a fulltime job since i was 14, bought all of my cars and houses. i think you appreciate things more when you buy them yourself, as much as it sucks to go to a rich private school and see all of these kids riding around in hooked up new cars and i was driving a 10 year old, beat-up, primered station wagon. at least it was mine.

[l2ichal2d]

i got my license when i was 16, drove a 1993 maxima. gotta love that car. now im 20 driving an altima, got it back in june

[JDRosenberg07]

Dang! I'm 51, paying for it myself, and NEVER had a car or insurance or gas paid for me! I don't remember my friends parents buying them cars either. Maybe we were poor and didn't know it!!!!

Heck! Ive known kids whos FRIENDS parents bought them a brand new car!!

[phobs]

i got my license when i was 16, drove a 1993 maxima. gotta love that car. now im 20 driving an altima, got it back in june

I was 16 driving my bro's 1999 Maxima SE-L . Maximas are great

[3.5SEBlackInTor]

I'm 24

[HighSchoolCoupe]

yep 18...got it when i turned 17....i paid for half and my dad paid the other half just before he left

[shortys408]

my parents bought my first car when i was 16, an 03 corolla. I didn't exactly take care of it. Last year when I was 20 I sold the car and bought the A/C myself. I love it and often walk into things because I am starring at my car when I walk away from it.

[deasonz]

I bought my coupe when I was 23. My first car was a 91 Ford Probe GL with 150 K on it! I loved that car!

[HuyyNguyen]

im 17 so theres no answer for me =(

[Altima1992]

17 here!! thats so mean that u didnt include us in the poll

[Car Nut since birth]

Wow, I really feel old. My first car was a 1952 Chevy. I've had many cars since then, all paid for by me. All but any new cars were also maintained by me. I guess when you grow up paying your own way, you don't feel like paying someone else to do what you can do your self. I have repaired, replaced or modified just about every part of those cars except for automatic transmissions. I sure makes one have a lot more respect for a car when it is their money.By the way, I am 63 and bought my 2008 A/C a couple weeks after it came out. Black on black, with all the options except the silly looking deflector on the roof.One other thing, don't think that because I am old, that I drive like it. I love to drive fast, especially through the curves. I don't think I will ever grow up when it comes to driving speeds.

[jlynch77]

Like i said in another thread at 16 i bought one of the first 05 mustangs (which i regretted) traded that in like 2yrs later when i was 18. Then i bought a dodge ram and after i mod'ed it out i only got like 5mpg so i traded it in for my coupe... Ive paid for all of it and am now 20 and owe i think 8grand on the a/c....

[chiphead]

Wow, I really feel old. My first car was a 1952 Chevy. I've had many cars since then, all paid for by me. All but any new cars were also maintained by me. I guess when you grow up paying your own way, you don't feel like paying someone else to do what you can do your self. I have repaired, replaced or modified just about every part of those cars except for automatic transmissions. I sure makes one have a lot more respect for a car when it is their money.By the way, I am 63 and bought my 2008 A/C a couple weeks after it came out. Black on black, with all the options except the silly looking deflector on the roof.One other thing, don't think that because I am old, that I drive like it. I love to drive fast, especially through the curves. I don't think I will ever grow up when it comes to driving speeds.

Good to know I'm not alone here with these youngsters

[sammyboy]

My first car was suppose to be a 2005 Altima 2.5s. Then my mom wanted that car so my dad gave me half the money to buy a 99 Passat GLX with 62,000 miles for $3,500. That lasted a year or so then I had money saved up and I put 4 grand down on an A/C I pay $250 month for the payments and 600 for insurance

[akamaru]

24 here.... had many other nissan cars, especially altima.had so many great times together...i just love em LOL