my first car was a truck as well, a 1987 nissan pickup, 250k miles, 5 speed tranny, that really nice an tough 4 cylinder nissan had back then, that was my mom's former work truck for her company, it was beat up from hell n back, an i beat it up even more, i was given the use of it when i was 16, bought it from her when i was 19 after i got my last speeding ticket, paid her 1500 bucks for it, sold it 2 years later for the same 1500 bucks, with a bad transmission in it LOL