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All depends on the kid.
I had terrible self confidence, was pretty darn skinny..the girls didn't even know I was alive. I always worked so I started saving and in 1986 just after I turned 16 I bought my first car. A 1967 Camaro with a decent 327 under the hood. Nice paint job. Four speed Muncie. I got it for just over $3k. Having saved for it, doing my own wrenching, buying my own insurance, even buying tires changes how you drive something. You don't roast off the tires when you had to buy a set. Anyway, the game had changed.
That dumb car changed my pathetic life. I wish I could say otherwise, but from that day til now I've been down a pretty good road. I retired from the best job ever, at the top of my game, at age 38. Full pension, full medical, honorable discharge.
As I said it depends on the kid. For me it was the car. For kids with confidence, they can get by with a Yugo.-WW
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