That's how things were for me when I was younger. I didn't have much either. Credit cards only get you but so far and only Dad used them back then. He actually bought me this old fashioned box of a computer back in the day that we used to shove in the trunk of the Impala when we moved around all the time. Made me do research and homework and things with it. I was real proud of it, so I know how you feel about the car.