Hot Wheels

"A station wagon?" Thorne stated with a measure of disrespect his dad definitely didn't appreciate.
"If you were hoping for a corvette, you should have taken that summer internship in California!" the older man shrugged.
"What I *hoped* for was anything better than scrapyard reject," the teenager retorted, lightly kicking a misshapen wheel.
"What, and rob you of fun and quality time with your old man? I'm hoping to teach you young whippersnapper a thing or two before you run off to college..."
That actually made Thorne smile ruefully.
"As long as they don't ship you out again, you mean."