Overhaulin'

alfredb1979 re: minors buying a car?

Is your argument really that a minor cannot buy a $600 clunker but he can walk in walmart and plunk down $1500 for a high end TV ? I know that in my state 30 years ago I bought one. Is a bill of sale a valid contract or a receipt if there is nothing in there about future payments ? All that being said, in my 15+ years in the car business, I required the car to be in an adults name too if the kid was under 19. The point I was making in the other thread was for the most part, the average car seller living in a trailer park isn't worried about a minors parent suing them over a car they sold 6 months ago.

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1. A car is an item. And you buy them with money. Of course they can buy a car. It's not like a gun or a porn movie.
2. What contract are you signing for a $1500 TV though? I've never signed one for any TV I have ever bought. Definitely not for the TV or the warranty I bought for the HD flat screen sitting on my desk here that I just watched my Navy team beat down Oregon on my PS2/NCAA 2008...just saying. I'm sure a minor can go an hit up a neighbor a few houses down (give or take) and rassle a $600 POS that has been paintballed to death, no problem. I'm not exactly sure I told you otherwise there. Unless you are telling me that that other poster was doing precisely that, but I got the idea that poster wanted to look a little higher up on the totem pole of used cars...hence, that poster of which I recall being a minor certainly wasn't going to be visiting a dealer and probably wasn't going to be getting lucky getting a car any better than what you mentioned from a seller who knows what is at stake by selling to a minor. So, in short, I wasn't exactly disagreeing with you on that scenario you bring up. But, you know as well as I do with all the myths that get spread around here (let's not even touch them tonight please), let's not give the underage kiddos an idea that they can run up to a lender, pull a loan by signing on dotted lines, then run over to a bonafide dealer and hit paydirt. That's all that was clearing up, senor.