Here's how stupid I was when I got my first car.
When i turned 15, my dad made a deal with me that if I maintained my GPA and saved my money for a whole year he would match what ever I saved and we would buy my first car when I turned 16.
A couple of weeks before I got my drivers license I gave him almost $1,000, that was a huge amount of money for a kid back in 1979. My buddy's older brother had a 1976 VW that we all thought was the coolest car around, it had the baddest, loudest Craig Power Play 8 track on the planet! LOL
The day before my 16th birthday my dad bought a blue 1969 Camaro Z-28 and surprised me with it.
During the summer break, my parents made me work and pay for my own gas money and it got damn expensive to cruise!
Remember my buddy's older brother with the VW, well, a year later I traded him my Camaro for that VW and $500. LOL
What a dumb fuck I was!