What does he want to do to it?
Uhg, make it some sort of half asssed baja bug. Keep the steel fenders on it (uncut), raise the front and rear, already put large tires on the back
and front 215 75R 15, put a grill guard on the front off of a pickup truck, and go off roading at Glamis, towing it with a 4Runner his dad is supposed to give him (yea right). He's talking about launching this thing with the steel fenders still on it. He's 16, younger mentaly, and already knows everything.
Get laughed at! 
Yep.
(BTW, to his dad... keep your mouth shut... I have a cell phone you can use whenever you're ready!

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