Drive it up here and leave it in my yard.

Put the title and bill of sale, (gift), in the glovebox.

That is 100% a Win in my book. It's just a Truck, and even Good kids make mistakes. Most important part is she is Ok. Nothing else matters here really, a lesson was learned i am sure.

Boom - I nailed it. $1000. GLWS

https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/cto/ ... 03574.html

You need to post current pics of it with the damage. Its a more honest representation.

Also that pic is kinda like "click bait" for dumbest folks in the world. Unfortunately we live in a world where people LOOK and respond. They will all contact you thinking they are getting a nice truck that looks like the pics.

You will get tired of responding with, "its wrecked, did you read the ad?"

You'll get more traffic if you replace lowrider with mini truck.

Your 100% correct, I took the picture down.


MRC, I put “Mini” in the title.

A body shop with a frame machine could tweak that back into the range of respectability in a few hours with a couple hard pulls.

Fix it so it is a safer driver, and make her drive it until she can buy her own wheels. Leave all the war wounds - no cosmetic repairs.

A constant reminder - driving around in an example of what can go wrong will be the best deterrence for any other fits of youthful exuberance behind the wheel.

My son took his first car, that I found for him, a perfectly good Dodge Dart small block V8 auto, , and turned it into a pile of smoking junk by not checking the oil at every fill up like he was supposed to - the engine was sound, but used oil.

Being as we lived out in the sticks, he needed transportation. He got to drive the one ton beater stake bed truck I started my landscaping business with back in the early eighties.

That worked well until the day he nearly lost a wheel. He said it was making noise and driving funny.

I go out to take a look, and the front passenger wheel was held in place by only two backed out lug nuts - the rest had backed off, and about half the rim bolt surface had sheared off with cornering load.

He had the mechanical aptitude of Barbie The Crochet Cougar School Teacher Edition.

He was relegated to driving a bicycle for the rest of the summer as penance, and back into the one ton when school started and the weather went south for the winter.

I told him then and there he better get an education and a job that made enough money to pay people for all the shit he was gonna break, destroy, and wear out prematurely.

So, he got a degree, and his masters degree, went into private banking, and is senior vice president of portfolio management for Northern Trust.

Now, he breaks his shit, and pays other people to fix it. Ask him to do anything more complicated than pour cereal out of the box into a bowl, and he is fucked.

But, he makes stupid money, and my grandson will never be left lacking.

Kids and cars - it always works out, just not like you think it will.

Add a few current pictures and "mechanics special" in the title.

Mexican or Russian flippers will be by soon.

I dont always agree with Mr. Bacon but on this one it looks like he wins this thread.

The wife and had a nice long talk about this last night and we both agree that the kid should just drive it until the wheels fall off and get as much out of it as possible, we really wanted this pickup to get her through until she graduates and worry about another vehicle later.


I mean why should she get a new to her vehicle for driving this one into the ground????

Nope!!

I hope every time she looks at it she gets disgusted!!!

How bad is the frame tweaked?

Good call!! props to ya!

About a half inch behind the drivers side wheel in towards the passenger side.

There use to be a good body shop just before Buckley on the old highway to Enumclaw. I would get the rig straightened enough so that it would not eat tires.