Are you insane? Why would you give her your credit card?

She's a good kid. She always pays me back. She works two jobs and she drives a rusty 85 Corolla banger with 160K on it and no AC and never complains. She even buys second hand clothes. She's just a goofy teenager....

I have seen the same thing, one guy had a crolla, beat the $hit out of it, got an elclips, wraped it awround a tree in two months, now drives a mitsibicie 3000GT...I think, b/c I last saw him driving a PUtruck the stupitidy of some people makes me want to My parents made me share moms van for nearly a year before I got the 240D it made me a more careful driver b/c I knew if I crashed it I would not even get to share moms car.

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All teenagers should drive 240DL's. Nothing better for them.

I am 18 and it sounds like jerry needs to take a lesson from good old friend Brandon about not touching wires...

...ZAP.

Sorry to hear this happened...atleast the car wasn't damaged in any unfixable means. You've had a lot of those situations lately and you don't need more breaking stuff.

Lesson learned for the kiddos...

I just turned 19 a couple months ago, and celebrated 1.6 years of completely incident free driving. So my insurance rates fell by about $80 per half year! I never speed (nothing more than 3-5 over) anywhere, excluding italian tuneup/speed test runs on a short stretch of empty freeway outside the south part of the city. I also rarely if ever drive on my cell phone, maybe once a month for a couple minutes if I really need to. What I don't understand is what people have to talk about that requires them to ALWAYS be holding their stupid phones up to their heads while driving....especially fellow teens. I've been nearly-hit/sideswiped probably 30 times by cell phone people in the last year alone.

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

Likewise...I don't get it.

That horn sure comes in handy sometimes

123 horns sound silly and charming, makes me think of Chitty-bang bang.

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1982 240D.
My name is Michael, and I am an 18 year old binge-drinkin', cigar-smokin', novel-writin', all around unsavory and unnattractive guy. I tell long-winded stories, and I only shave once a week, although I've had to do it every day since I was 16.

Rep some w126 body horns...they mean buisness...

The w123's are enjoyable though...

Yeha i live in a fairly rich area, so when i was attending the local highschool the reward for getting your license (by other families not mine) was a brand new car!!!! I did not get a car until i had been driving for about a year.And being in a Rich nieghborhood of couse they have had a cell phone since middle schoolto go with new car mommy and daddy bought for getting thier permit /license. Of similar relation my neighbor's bought thier daughter of 16-17 a brand new volvo (05' i think, with personal plates) that she rolled on her prom night by not paying attention to a small median imbeetween the on ramp and the main flow of the freeway. THEN they go and buy her a 06' BMX coupe a few weeks ago of which i saw out at 0430 at the only 24 hour diner in a which not best part of town. (i was out meeting people for coffe, i have no idea what she was doing there). And Every time i go to the video store i see there big trucks or crappy rice rockets with thier unpratical mods ,booming stereo systems, and ground effects sitting in the parking lot with about 5-6 other cars and vechicles of similar attire all downing $4.50 lattes from starbucks. I know the respect and value of owning my own car and paying for all the items in and that go onto into it. ANd i agree the 240d is an awsome starting car for an amature driver. ANd oh yes the w126 horn is very loud mine gets used often.

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81' 300SD AKA "Big Helga"
84' 300D Euro spec (Veronika)
85' 300D NonCalifornia (Heidi)

"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job."
-Winston Churchill, 1941

"I'll have a Chinchilla!"

Carrameow, you are way to nice to your kid. I'm 17 and believe me if I asked my parents to do what your daughter did (even in my own car) the look I would recieve would be akin to this: followed by :wtf: are you doing even considering going on some trip at 3 in the bloody morning. Even if I had left the thier answer to a dead battery caused by stupidity would be "Tough luck, hope you brought jumper cables." Either way the idiot boyfriend is easy enough to take care of...... If your area is redneck enough it won't even seem out of the ordinary.

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'84 190d 2.2 - Silver
Converted to 5-Speed
'84 190d 2.2 - Blue
Factory 5-Speed

'76 300D (W115)
Sold, found again in less auspicious circumstances

I told my son he could have a car anytime he wanted as long as it didn't take any of my money and very little of my time (just time enough to sign stuff). And I gave him some advice that he had no obligation to follow, like check with the insurance the relationship between premiums and grades. And I could tell from his grades when he finally did check. He has since told me he could tell the difference between people who bought their first car and those who were given their cars. He got a degree in finance and said he had fun with the loan officer when he bought his new car.

Before he bought his first car he made it clear in no uncertain terms in his own teenager ways that he didn't believe in standard transmissions and the people that drove them...


...and then he saw a car he liked.

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5 speed '91 190E 2.6 320,000 mi. (new car, fast, smooth as silk six, couldn't find any more Peugeots)
5 speed '85 Peugeot 505 2.5l Turbo Diesel 266,000 mi. (old car, fast for a diesel, had 2 others)
5 speed '01 Jetta V6 (new wifes car, pretty quick)
5 speed '85 Peugeot 505 2.2l Turbo Gas 197,000 mi. (wifes car, faster, sadly gone just short of 200k )
5 speed '83 Yamaha 750 Maxim 14,000 mi. (fastest)
0 speed 4' x 8' 1800 lb Harbor Freight utility trailer (only as fast as what's pulling it)

My son called me once at 11:30 pm, telling me he stuck his Ford Ranger in the mud. It's a street truck and I had told him more than once to stay on the pavement.
Well he asked me to come pull him out. I said "bummer" and went back to bed. He came in a few hours later, a little muddy, but with a little more knowledge.

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84 300D 251K
87 190DT 281K - Sold
06 Ford Escape 172K
94 Ford Ranger 250K
99 Chevy Suburban 181K

. . . I've never had kids. Urgh.

I didn't learn to drive until I was 22 (yes, really), because my people refused to teach me and wouldn't help me buy a car. Their reasoning: "Why do you need to know how to drive? You don't have a car!" (This is equivalent to saying, "Why do you need to know how to balance a checkbook? You don't even have a bank account!")

I think they actually believed a young man (in the 70s, you understand) could date without a vehicle of his own. (There were buses, after all. Ha, ha.) And there was no kind of job I was qualified for when I was in college that would have paid me enough.

But if they *had* sprung for one, I'd have treated it like a pet even if I hadn't spent my own money. I spent too damn many years waiting for and riding buses, and cadging rides from friends. I'd have been glad to have *any* kind of running car.

These arrogant sproglets ought to wait for a city bus at one a.m. in a cold rain, or during a southern night where the temp never gets below 82 F. and the humidity rises to 93 per cent. They'd take a Yugo and be glad of it!

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('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino

I know of a daughter that wanted a white convertable VW or nothing.

She didn't get the VW, so she got the alternative.

Hehe convertables are high maintenece...espicially if we are talking pre-1990 ones. Tops, interiors, rotating tires, etc.

Fun but sensitive cars