man, at 17 I would have killed for a new truck, I had an 86 toyota corolla. I was 6ft 300lbs at the time so everyone said it looked like a clown car from the circus when I drove it.

 

thanks for the advice. to answer the first question that was asked: i work the weekends for my dad and i dont get paid. the money goes straight to the truck to pay it off. yes, i am a lucky kid and i know that. my parents wanted me to have this truck as my first so that i am careful with it and don't wreck it, which i wont. i will not race it, and yes i am seventeen. any other questions?

 

Uploaded some pictures into my gallery. Here it is: https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?gnum=4003

Everything is stock right now but I don't care. I am just glad I have it. Hopefully in the near future I will get an exhaust (split rear). Since I am helping my dad on the weekends mainly I am going to probably be looking for a summer weekday job and make money to put straight into it. (if all goes well)

 

Spiros 123,

Welcome to the forum.
This is a good place to learn and share information.

I don't have any advice for you, except I was just trying to remember what it was like for me when I was 17. The old but true cliche comes to mind: "I wish I knew then what I know now." But after reading your post, I feel more like: I wish I had a nice truck then, like you do now...plus the "knowing" part would have sure been nice, too.

Enjoy!

 

...Uh...Uh....well...like everyone else said....WELCOME!

I don't care if you're a 75 year old toothless *****. People with money are like women with tig bitties...IF YOU GOT IT...FLAUNT IT!!!

 

for sure man. i am just happy to be sharing my thoughts with fellow owners.



https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?gnum=4003 is my gallery

 

Nice color combo! Ever wonder what your truck would look like in an Extended Cab with cloth instead of leather........

 

Thanks! I love the color as well. My mother does too especially since she chose it. She saw it and the first thing she said was, "that is the one." (translated into English from Greek of course) What do you mean by extended cab? Supercab model or did you mean extended bed? Sorry I am mixed up.

 

Reading this thread gave me the confidence to give it a try but, No luck! So much for my so called life.

I had a talk with my dad and it went like this:

Me: "Dad, I want you to buy me a new 2004 F150, either an FX4 or a Lariat, I don't care."

Dad: "Son, you are 48 years old and besides your mother and I are on a fixed income."

Me: "You know this really bums me out. I'm going to my room."

 

Sorry- I am from the old school when they were called "Extended Cabs". I do mean "Super Cab". I have the 6 1/2' bed. I almost bought the smaller bed, but all of my crap won't fit in the back.

(oops, not yet for you, huh?)

How about some of these:

 

My first ride was a '57 Chebby 4dr ex-dirt track racer; 348 c.i.,2 speed auto trans. I saved for 3 years and bought it for $300. Sold it back to the guy I bought it from 3 years later for $200 (value added for the yellow **** carpet I glued all over it, and the 8 track tape player that conveyed). Then I graduated from high school, and my Dad co-signed for my 1972 Subaru GL coupe {$2900} - the one with the the 'original' swoosh from back to front; it was awesome! 32 mpg when gas cost .19 / gal. 115,000 miles later, the engine seized up - [I didn't know you were supposed to change the oil, besides, as a college kid, I couldn't afford to!]

...Daddy made more than a couple of those payments...

Now, my daughter grew up. Her first ride at 16 y/o was my camo'd 74 Blazer hunting truck. Strong , sturdy, ...slow. 8 mpg. She drove it for 2 years - adding a window sticker on the back window... "My Parents Make Me Drive This" . She's now chillin' with her relatively new Mustang, and earned that privilege as a responsible kid.

Spiros123 - Dont forget to change the oil... and congratulations on your new truck, welcome to the F-150 Online family !!!

 

If your the youngest owner of the new F-150 on these boards, I guess that makes me the second youngest Only difference is I bought the truck on my own. Worked hard every summer from when I was 12, and got a job at 16 and am now finally enjoying my payoff No cosign on the loan, and this truck rocks! (I'm 18 for those who are wondering)

 

Guys I dont know what the big deal is with a seventeen year old haveing a new truck. I am 29 and live in a small farming town and when I was 14 went to work on a farm like about 10 other guys in a town of 3000 and we could work summer months and make 10000 dollars. I bought my first truck new and traded everyyear. I started with a reg. cab 4x4 and went up to ext.cab and on to supercrew. Everyone when I was in school had new trucks and cars. Maybe since they are 30 + vehicles would make you think they shouldnt have that much in a truck at that age, but in my small farming community its pretty much normal, so I would figure in all across america, in todays world one could have a job in high school and have one. And also for the ones that think, a farmer, or farmerson can have that , you a right but like I said if you work all summer long 14-15 hours a day for the truck I think it is deserved. Just my 2 cents

 

SlapPaddle--

God Bless parents like you. My first set of wheels was a 1978 Jeep Renegade CJ-5, 3-speed, straight 6 with no top that had been in the junk yard for 6 years. When I turned 15, my dad bought it for $500 cash, and they threw in a single shot .22 rifle (probably hotter than a $2 pistol...literally). I started working in a body shop that same summer, and the owner let me work on it after hours. Granted, I had help from the older guys at the shop, they would drink beer and help out until about the 8th beer, then it was all me. I stripped that thing down to the bare metal and painted it myself. There were drips EVERYWHERE, but dammit, it was mine. I paid a guy $200 to rebuild the engine for me (think daddy had something to do with that?). After I graduated high school, my dad sold it (that bastard), to a man that gave it to his 16 year old kid. He passed a guy on a double yellow line, going up hill on a 2 lane road and a dump truck was coming the other way. Poor bastard is probably still digging that steering wheel out of his teeth (it had no seatbelts). Honestly, the kid probably never knew what hit him...I think they took him straight to the morge.

Sounds like something you read in a book, I know, but every last word is true.

(everyone else told theirs, I figured I'd tell mine)

Oh yeah...Welcome again, Spiros123.

 

Thanks my friends. I am working hard and I have been told by many people that I deserve it. Stereotypes you may think of may make me sound like a spoiled kid who gets whatever he wants and will treat this wonderful truck like junk. No way.

Some of you think that I shouldn't have it. For example, I have friends who get money (over 100 dollars) for each "good grade" they get. These "good grades" are in my parents opinions the worst thing that can happen to me. I have a 3.6 average gpa for my freshman, sophomore, and junior first semester. I am aiming for a 4.0 this semester to bring that 3.6 average up a tad bit. Never had an allowance, and the best thing I had in life up to this truck was a NES. Ooooooooooooold school system.

-spiro.