I "totally owned" that when I was 13.

When I was 13 I "totally owned" a 97 Camaro SS on AIM.

Not the same picture I used back then, same colors but they've invented more pixels since then.

What car did you "totally own" back in the day?

This oughta be good

I wonder how many people didn't believe that I had a freshly restored 54 Belair when I was 16 because they were all lying about their cars?

I never lied about it. That was something I had beat into my head. Lying is stupid. That and AIM and Yahoo Chats weren't around when I was 13. 

Same as Bob, I never did that. I told everyone about my Dad's actual drag car, but that's it.

I was foolish enough to not only admit I had a 1989 Ford Escort (not the GT), but to reference it in my username at the time. 

When I was 13, I had a horse.  When I was 16 I had a '63 Lark.

I never said I owned it, but I had these plastered on my bedroom wall when I was 13:

Love me some Lambo.

I had cars as my profile picture that weren't mine, but I never claimed them as mine either. 

'87 Firebird Formula. It was my mom's.

Yeah, I didn't really dream big.

I mean, at 13 I had a Yamaha MX100, at 14 I had a Razz, 15 I had a Buick Park Ave 350 Diesel. But we didn't even know about this "internet" thing yet. My computer experience at that point was limited to Apple IIe with a color monitor. 

I fully understand how stupid these lies were.  13 year olds are stupid, especially with the anonymity of the internet.  The svxsti saga just reminded me of this car.

I never claimed I owned it if I knew the person, but that cute skater girl I just asl'd from PA...

I was too old to try dumb stuff like that by the time the internet was a thing.

Fun fact:

Doug DeMuro totally got his start as a teenager lying about cars he owned on the internet.

Back in the Oughties I was an administrator on gtplanet.net.  DeMuro was a funny but punk-ass kid who built this huge web of lies about how he had been injured in a road rage incident involving a New York City garbage truck and had sued and won $10,000,000 or something.  Allegedly he had invested it in some oil land in the Southwest and was spending time buying and selling dream cars.

Among dozens of other vehicles, supposedly he bought one of the first Cayenne Turbos in the country.  His entire facade came crashing down when a woman who actually did own one of the first Cayenne Turbos in the country called him out on some details he got wrong, such as the fact that it normally launches in 2nd gear unless you specifically make it start in 1st.

After that the whole thing came apart and he was just another punk-ass kid lying on the internet, albeit a funny one.  How he parlayed that into a career, I'll never know, but it seems to be working for him.

I totally owned this when I was 13.  Bought it in the spring of grade 8.  This is what it looked like when I was 16.

Duke said:

I was too old to try dumb stuff like that by the time the internet was a thing.

Fun fact:

Doug DeMuro totally got his start as a teenager lying about cars he owned on the internet.

Back in the Oughties I was an administrator on gtplanet.net.  DeMuro was a funny but punk-ass kid who built this huge web of lies about how he had been injured in a road rage incident with a New York City garbage truck and had sued and won $10,000,000 or something.  Supposedly he had invested it in some oil land in the Southwest and was spending time buying and selling dream cars.

Among dozens of other vehicles, supposedly he bought one of the first Cayenne Turbos in the country.  His entire facade came crashing down when a woman who actually did own one of the first Cayenne Turbos in the country called him out on some details he got wrong, such as the fact that it normally launches in 2nd gear unless you specifically make it start in 1st.

After that the whole thing came apart and he was just another punk-ass kid lying on the internet, albeit a funny one.  How he parlayed that into a career, I'll never know, but it seems to be working for him.

 

That further justifies my "can't stand that guy"

tuna55 said:

Duke said:

I was too old to try dumb stuff like that by the time the internet was a thing.

Fun fact:

Doug DeMuro totally got his start as a teenager lying about cars he owned on the internet.

Back in the Oughties I was an administrator on gtplanet.net.  DeMuro was a funny but punk-ass kid who built this huge web of lies about how he had been injured in a road rage incident with a New York City garbage truck and had sued and won $10,000,000 or something.  Supposedly he had invested it in some oil land in the Southwest and was spending time buying and selling dream cars.

Among dozens of other vehicles, supposedly he bought one of the first Cayenne Turbos in the country.  His entire facade came crashing down when a woman who actually did own one of the first Cayenne Turbos in the country called him out on some details he got wrong, such as the fact that it normally launches in 2nd gear unless you specifically make it start in 1st.

After that the whole thing came apart and he was just another punk-ass kid lying on the internet, albeit a funny one.  How he parlayed that into a career, I'll never know, but it seems to be working for him.

 

That further justifies my "can't stand that guy"

I can't stand more than a few seconds of his videos.

I'm not sure I was cool or smart enough when I was 13 to even have the idea to pretend I owned a car. 

Pretty sure I spent my entire free time looking at FD rx7s for sale on ebay though. 

At 13 I was going to Space Academy (Space Camp for older kids), trying to save enough money to buy the neighbors hard top CJ5 with the transfer case apart riding my Dirt bike feeding hogs and driving a Dodge van around on country roads. No need to make up stuff... I was already doing cool E36 M3.

In reply to bobzilla :

I so wanted to go to Space Camp when I was a kid. When I was 13 I was delivering soda with my father. A few days a week I'd get picked up in by far the biggest Mercedes in the car pool line. Other kids parents settled on mere 300Es or the occasion S Class but we had a long white 1319. Sadly there was no internet around to try and impress anyone. 

I was torn...

Jeeps, but I actually owned them

I was 14 when I bought the $35.00 Ford Anglia 105E. Never got a photo of it, well maybe Mom did but I haven't found it yet.  Then the $100.00 MG TD came available and I sold the Anglia for $100.. Photo of the proud owner of the worlds worst TD below.

Berk I'm old. Ya buncha youngsters. When I waz 13 there weren't no innerweb to lie on about the cars you didn't have, get off my lawn. 

I used a picture of an 89 Blazer that wasn't mine because I didn't own a digital camera to take pictures of the one I did own. I was also like 18? 

Also I learned that having a primer grey 71 caprice was not enough to deter the girls of yahoo car chat from doing me.  Not making this up, every encounter i had that hasn't been with my wife was with girls from the yahoo car chat room.