Tesla CEO Elon Musk https://twitter.com/elonmusk is the richest person in the world today, but there was a time when he did not even have money to pay a mechanic to repair his car. An old 1978 BMW 320i was Musk’s first car, which he bought in 1993. To fix it, Elon Musk bought a replacement glass from a junkyard for $ 20. This piece of information about Musk came out on Twitter when an old photo of him fixing his car went viral on the microblogging platform.
A Twitter user shared a throwback photo, where young Elon Musk is seen repairing a car window. While sharing the photo, the user tweeted, “In 1995 Elon Musk fixed his car on his own, because he could not afford the repairs.”
In reply to an old photo, in December 2019, 49-year-old Elon Musk tweeted, “I bought replacement glass from the junkyard for $ 20. They are a great place to get parts.”
We should know that this throwback picture was first shared on Twitter by Musk’s mother, Maye Musk. “@elonmusk1995 and people said you don’t understand anything regarding cars”.
Replying to his mother’s tweet, Elon Musk admitted that he had fixed everything in that old BMW because they could not afford the repairman. He said, “Repair cannot be paid, so I fixed almost everything in that car with parts of the junkyard.” He further revealed that he bought the 1993 BMW 320i for $ 1,400 (about 1 lakh rupees).
Elon Musk surpassed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in the list of worlds richest man on Tuesday January 7th 2021, who was in the first position since 2017.
Elon Musk dropped out of Stanford University in California as his interests turned more towards the development of Internet. He also launched his first company Zip2 Cooperation in the year 1995.
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