best parents or what?????

[Iroczlover]

my husband wanted to look at a truck today not for him not for me not for our son but for our 13yr old daughter!!!!!

our son got his about the age of 15, but his grades suck, our daughters grades are great.

so he is looking at
http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/ctd/2824212300.html

what ya think????? we havent gotten it yet we are trying to come up with the money for it lol

[asalomon]

Truck for a 13 year old girl?

[fielderLS3]

For a kid, I'd be looking at something a little less classic, and a little more disposable, and with more modern safety features. I would be kinda cool for her if she is really into cars, and would know how to take care of a classic like that, though.

Whatever you buy, who gets to drive it until she is 16?

[BowtieBelle]

Originally Posted by asalomon

Truck for a 13 year old girl?

This

Originally Posted by fielderLS3

For a kid, I'd be looking at something a little less classic, and a little more disposable, and with more modern safety features. I would be kinda cool for her if she is really into cars, and would know how to take care of a classic like that, though.

Whatever you buy, who gets to drive it until she is 16?

And this

[Iroczlover]

Originally Posted by Brettzel

Good grades or not, kids, teens, whatever you like to call them, well... they really should buy their own car, but that is just my opinion.

they have to earn the vehicles not just given to them, meaning they have to buy parts for it & do the work on the vehicle as well

Originally Posted by asalomon

Truck for a 13 year old girl?

why not????

Originally Posted by fielderLS3

For a kid, I'd be looking at something a little less classic, and a little more disposable, and with more modern safety features. I would be kinda cool for her if she is really into cars, and would know how to take care of a classic like that, though.

Whatever you buy, who gets to drive it until she is 16?

Yes she is really in to cars & knows how to work on them, we have taught them that from the start.
when she was 5 years old she was helping her dad rewire his 67 pick up & when we sold it she was mad at us for weeks because we sold her truck, even though it wasnt hers. She thought it was. also Why not a classic????? when we were looking at vehicles for my son, our insurance agent said that a older truck was the way to go because they would not get rated on newer cars just that vehicle so for my sons truck it cost us $50 a month
so we are doing the same thing for her.

Her dad gets to drive it & gets to show it as well. but she gets to do the work on it.

for those who dont know my kids personally, both of them are hard workers & are always at shows helping out, no matter if its running errors, when the big swap meet show up every year they are out running parts for cash to buy parts & what have you or to make money. On the weekends & during the week on summer breaks they are cleaning stalls for $3 a day & doing odd jobs on the farm I work at to make money. they are not sitting around doing nothing

[evan]

I got my first car at 15, my dad wanted me to get used to taking care of it before I could drive. a 89 mustang 5.0, lol. My parents gave me 2500 to pick a car and thats the one I got. I learned a lot about cars in those short years i had it... Hope your daughter enjoys that truck(should you get it for her)

For the negative nancies here:
Not everyone grows up the same. Plus there's a lot of value to having a vehicle at a young age, personal growth and responsibility are 2 things that come to mind...

[heRS]

a girl and her truck... if ya gotta ask you'll never understand. If GM put out a new el Camino that captured the bygone era as well as the camaro did I'd trade out in a heartbeat.
Hope your daughter loves it and hope your son gets his priorities straight so he too can earn his wheels.

[Iroczlover]

the total deal is currently is they owe us half the price of their vehicle,
if she gets Bs or As for a semster(all Bs or higher) then she gets the truck for nothing. for every F at semster time its $250 more she owes us.

same deal with our son..

[Iroczlover]

Originally Posted by heRS

a girl and her truck... if ya gotta ask you'll never understand. If GM put out a new el Camino that captured the bygone era as well as the camaro did I'd trade out in a heartbeat.
Hope your daughter loves it and hope your son gets his priorities straight so he too can earn his wheels.

I live in a farming community, everyone owns trucks here. lol,
as for my son he is turning his self around, but come june he may head out to bootcamp.
you coming to seattle in July for the all chevy show??? hoping sweet heart is here.

[BowtieBelle]

Originally Posted by heRS

a girl and her truck... if ya gotta ask you'll never understand.

My first vehicle-- and second-- and third... pickup trucks

[Vengeance Graphix]

damn, i got my first car which was a 98 civic at age 18

[Steve Dallas]

Learned to drive in a Chevy Pickup truck that had an H-Shift at 14 on dirt roads in the California mountains with my dad. That was in the 70's.

Nothing wrong with making them work for the vehicle.

[Overflow]

Originally Posted by asalomon

Truck for a 13 year old girl?

This.

Sorry but what's a 13 year old girl going to do with a truck? She can't even drive it for two more years..

[SWAT]

Originally Posted by Overflow

This.

Sorry but what's a 13 year old girl going to do with a truck? She can't even drive it for two more years..