I can't afford a truck like the kids have now much less buy my son one...in high school I drove a 77 International scout II 304 auto with a oil leak and smoke that came in from the firewall...what a pleasant smell to where all day at school..did finally get a 79 Ford courier that we put on a 81 ranger 4x4 frame...I thought I was living fancy...times sure have changed alot

I graduated in 2003, I had a 1979 F-150 all through school. These kids want these new vehicles to pull muff. Well I had a old truck and still pulled it. It's all in the driver..

It seems to be the culture these days for young high school males. Tricked out trucks are in country songs and videos as well as the hunting shows on TV. They are lead to believe before you can be cool and have good looking girl friend you must have tricked out truck and duck hunt. Ain't no different than the black boys driving 74 caprice classics with ten thousand dollars worth of tires and wheels on them listening to rap music and how the man is to be blamed for everything.

With my work I am at high schools quite often and for the life of me I don't understand how and why a parent would spend the kind of money they do on a teenage boys pickup truck. Why don't they invest that money in something that they can use later on in life like stocks or trade school and a college education instead of something that has little or no return like a used vehicle.

When I was talking with our son about his friends' trucks, he mentioned one of them getting some cool wheels.

I asked him if he meant the tires or the rims.

"There's a difference?"

Yep. Rims are the metal thing in the middle that attach to the vehicle. Tires are the rubber things on the wheels.

"Oh."

Bam. Financial lesson. Those $3,500 or whatever rims also needed them round tough rubber thingies so they'd work.

Then we discussed chrome roll bars, chrome brush guards, the need for a step since the trucks were jacked up 28 feet off the ground and so forth.

But if someone's shelling out the $$$ for Junior to have a 2500 DuraWheezerCoolMax then they're probably not going to sniff when he wants all the goodies.

And anyone who buys all that for Junior and THEN bitches about the high price of insurance, kids, gas or expenses just needs to have a big steaming mug of ShutTheHellUp and a muffin.

HA HA could be they won the lottery.

My brother-in-law had a really nice Bronco in high school back in the late 80's (his dad paid for). Lifted, big tires, winch, ect... He burned up the motor mud riding, getting stuck, pulling his buddies out. If a kid doesn't have any of his own money invested in it, he won't take as good of care of it.

Same here in Hamilton. A lot of the high school guys drive very nice newer trucks that cost big $$$. I've never owned a vehicle as nice and expensive as many of the high school kids drive, and I've worked full time since I was young.

Dealing with this right now with my 15yr old. Hard to explain when his friends are getting new tricked out Jeeps, Ford Raptors and Crew Cab Z71's. I have tried the explaining the part about costs. I have taken him to a few used lots and covered the stickers with him, insurance, fuel and upkeep. Yet, he still gets starry eyed everytime one drives by. Takes me back to that age when I was the same way to some extent. I understand that.

My first care was a hand-me-down 72 Datsun B210 that was school bus orange. One morning I was on my way to school and made a right turn and my muffler went straight. I had the coolest sounding Datsun at the school for a couple of weeks.

Of course, he is going to have to pass his driver's permit test before anything is going to happen. His first try has turned into a good lesson that it pays to prepare no matter what your friends tell you about the test. So now he gets to pay for the next one. Thats another story for another day.

So I take it you were on the muff diving team

They are teaching there kids that its ok someone will take care of you must be a bunch of Democraps buying the trucks. My first car was a 85 Trans am that had been hit in the front. I had to fix it up to be able to drive it. But by the time I graduated and worked for $1.30 and hour in a body shop. She was a beast putting down around 800hp. That was my baby.

Kills me to see not only these kids in New Big arse trucks but there Daddys in them as well and then they have to come borrow money from me just to pay a house payment. They have to keep up with everyone else.

I guess its just part of being a kid...my trucks got glass packs on it (mid volume, not super loud). They were on it when we got it but I'd give my left nut for factory exhaust. I also wish I had that single cab 88 yota 4x4 back but its not practical for a family.

If I had my druthers, I'd have a mid/late 70's single cab, long bed F150 4x4.

I noticed the same thing this morning while dropping my daughter off at high school. Waaayyy too many trucks in the student parking lot that even I wouldn't/couldn't afford. Some F250's sitting on 38"+ tires all jacked up.

Must be nice to mooch off mom and dad. I didn't get my first car until I graduated boot camp and paid for it myself...and at that it was only a $5000 car.

Times have changed. We were glad to have something to ride in. Now they all drive vehicles nicer than I do now!

Guess I'll be the Racist for the day bahahahahahahaha! Majority of theses kids r nothing but spoiled ass white kids..Mama & daddy has to keep up with the joneses looky here at my house oh check out my fine wife, Poor Ole fellers working his azz off to keep up with the joneses.He eventually finds out half the neighbor's have been keeping up with is wife's plumbing for years!!!.True story I know a guy

Who cares what someone's kid is driving?they ain't getting a dime of my money so why should I care how much they spend on their kid,I got more important chit to worry about

Amen to that

You are 100% right.... Back in my day, you earned what you got. It dang sure wasn't given to you. That's what is wrong with today's youth,, spoiled brats.

My first car was an 86 maxima (same model year as me) that I paid $1500 for and needed some work. That got totaled by someone rear ending me, so we replaced it with a 97 gold-colored thunderbird that I also paid for. Granted, I now have my dream truck, but it's also paid off bc I busted my ass to get and have it. It's crazy that these kids have these trucks and most likely don't have any skin in the game to treat them like they should.

I was in the my chit don't stink zip code area of mobile..And I seen these boys in their dress clothes headed to a prep school in there jacked up ride..They were jamming on some colt ford singing about country boys kicking city boys azzes & I busted out laughing. What a bunch of idiots

First vehicle i ever had i bought myself when you grow up poor you don't drive to school you ride the big yellow bus. A lot of kids today are spoiled and expect to have everything there parents have when they are 20 even though it took there parents a lifetime to get the stuff they have. They don't want to get a job and work there way up they want to get hired in at the top or just not work at all. I see it on a regular basis most parents are doing there kids a disservice by giving them this kind of stuff without them having to work and sacrifice for them. Just my .02