How I Started: My First Car

My fascination with cars began when all my older friends started to get new cars-and not just any cars, cars with class. This started happening when they got tired of paying loads of money to the dealers, although they were only going to drive the cars for a year or so. Because in my circle of friends no one wants to keep the car for longer than a year and no one especially wants to have the cheapest car of the group. So everyone buys expensive German and Asian cars, like Mercedes-Benz, Audi’s, BMW’s, Infiniti’s and many more. We found that buying and reselling cars is a good way to make money. One of my friends had a Nissan Maxima for a while, sold it, and made some good money off the car and bought himself a Honda S2000 and a BMW 525. The Maxima was the top of its class, and had everything that you could ever need in a car; a navigation system that took us all over the United States and really nice black and red heated racing seats. On the outside, the car was buffed as almost to reflect the sun, and the rims were to die for-twenty inch with low tread tires. The two cars that he replaced with the Maxima were so much better. Honda s2000 is the color of a brand new red Ferrari. It’s a convertible, but that’s not the best thing about it, the best is that it’s a manual stick shift, great for racing “on a closed circuit race track, of course”. The BMW is a tan color as almost black; it’s a four passenger car with lots of extra room so it’s great for long road trips. Inside the car is leather, of course, with navigation that will take us on road trips this summer.

When the time came for one of my best friends to get a better car, he started looking at used cars online, so that he would not have to pay so much at the dealers again. One day when he was going through all the websites with cars, he stumbled on a website where there were a lot of lightly damaged cars for a cheap price. These cars may have been cheap, but the value was high; these cars were top of the line brand new cars with low mileage. One day this brand new Audi A4 pulled up into my long drive way, it’s a bright red with dark tinted windows like the ones you see on limos. I’m thinking the person that’s driving the car must be a millionaire, but when he stepped out it turned out to be my best friend. “Man, I have to know, how much you paid for this sweet ride” I asked him, he just smiled and said “it came out with repairs to fifteen grand”, “but the car is worth over $35,000.” Once he told everyone how cheap his expensive car was our whole circle started buying new lightly damaged cars, and in one year everyone was riding a new car for a cheap price.

When I turned sixteen and got my driver license, I started looking for a new car like all of my friends had. It took me a whole month to find the car that would fit my budget and still be awesome enough to ride with my friends. It was a new Nissan Altima: it was the highest in its class with heated leather seats, a sun and moon roof that was amazing, Bose sound system which is the loudest, clearest and all out best system that is out there, 18 inch chrome rims, and was silver-my favorite color on a car. The best thing that I liked about this car is that I got it really cheap, for $6200, but I didn’t tell anyone that, because the car had some damage to the front of it. I had to replace the front bumper, both headlights, hood, and also the radiator support because it had a crack where the headlight was and could not support the radiators. It came out to be cheap because I replaced all the parts myself. I had to take the car to the body shop to get it painted which cost an extra $350. When the car was all finished and I was ready to take it out on the road, I checked the retail value of it on kellybluebook.com. It was almost $19000 and my car came out to be around $7500, I was really surprised with my savings and happy at the some time.

The year was about to be over, and thought to myself “I can’t believe that it’s time to get a new car”. I started searching for a new car, but it’s not as easy as it used to be. More and more people are catching on, finding out that they can have nice cars for a cheap price. Since I didnt have enough money to buy a new car while I had my current car. I decided to sell this car first, and drive my mom’s Toyota Camry for the time being. I put the car up on autotrader.com so that I could sell it quickly, and in just two days the first person called about the car, and wanted a test drive. After driving the car around the block he was in love with the car, but after giving the VIN number to his brother in law who is a dealer he decided not to buy it because he found out that it had been hit before. The very next day a man called and said he needed a car for his son as soon as possible. I met up with him in half hour he took it for a test drive, and in fifteen minutes the car was in his name and the cash in mine.

It’s an unending circle, I will continue to sell the cars that I have and buy even more expensive and better cars. After selling my first car I had enough money to buy a new car and pay for two quarters of college. I don’t plan to make a career from this; I am only doing this to pay for school. And when I am all finished with school and have a career I will have no need to sell cars anymore. My brother on the other hand is a high school dropout and simply adores cars. When I am all finished he will continue to resell cars to make money.