You were right! They were wrong! They had another question too that was questionable in my opinion - oh yeah, the lock on the Impala trunk. What lock? That was a weird web-game or something during the first series, but in the show the Impala doesn't HAVE a lock on the trunk, so I thought that question also shouldn't have been asked.
So, the problem with Adam is that the show did it's math wrong. Ghoul!Adam tells Sam and Dean that John taught him to drive in the Impala when he was 15, only Adam turned 15 in September 2005, when Dean was already on the road again with Sam IN THE IMPALA. So, the CLOSEST to 15 that John could have taught him to drive in the Impala is the summer of 2005, when he was 14.
Popular fanon is that John gave Dean the Impala when he turned 16, but canon has never actually said so. In 1996 (Dean is 17), Dean drives the Impala to set off the fireworks; but in 1997, we see that John is still driving the Impala too (Dean is 18). All we know is that Dean is driving the Impala by the time John leaves him in October 2005, and referring to it as "my car." Although Sam seems surprised that John let Dean hunt alone, he doesn't seem surprised that Dean is driving the Impala nor does he comment when Dean calls it "my car", so I think we can assume that ownership of the car had been passed to Dean sometime before Sam went to Stanford in 2002 (when Dean was 23). So, it could have been a "21 - officially legal" gift instead?
That all being said, there's no reason why John couldn't have borrowed the car back from Dean in order to go teach Adam how to drive. They may have driven each other's cars casually all the time (It's my opinion that they also shared ownership of the leather jacket in a similar manner until John left it in the motel room in Jericho.)
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Date: 2012-07-19 11:18 pm (UTC)So, the problem with Adam is that the show did it's math wrong. Ghoul!Adam tells Sam and Dean that John taught him to drive in the Impala when he was 15, only Adam turned 15 in September 2005, when Dean was already on the road again with Sam IN THE IMPALA. So, the CLOSEST to 15 that John could have taught him to drive in the Impala is the summer of 2005, when he was 14.
Popular fanon is that John gave Dean the Impala when he turned 16, but canon has never actually said so. In 1996 (Dean is 17), Dean drives the Impala to set off the fireworks; but in 1997, we see that John is still driving the Impala too (Dean is 18). All we know is that Dean is driving the Impala by the time John leaves him in October 2005, and referring to it as "my car." Although Sam seems surprised that John let Dean hunt alone, he doesn't seem surprised that Dean is driving the Impala nor does he comment when Dean calls it "my car", so I think we can assume that ownership of the car had been passed to Dean sometime before Sam went to Stanford in 2002 (when Dean was 23). So, it could have been a "21 - officially legal" gift instead?
That all being said, there's no reason why John couldn't have borrowed the car back from Dean in order to go teach Adam how to drive. They may have driven each other's cars casually all the time (It's my opinion that they also shared ownership of the leather jacket in a similar manner until John left it in the motel room in Jericho.)