What will it be worth?

[A.I.I.Raciing]

I'd say, if you want a Raptor now for yourself... get it, but don't necessarily plan on giving it to your child... If you want to trade it in on a newer Raptor or something else in a few years, do it! Buy someone else's 16 year old raptor off Ebay when he's hold enough!

That what I was planning on. I have NO intentions of keeping any truck for 16 years, let alone one that I want to give my kid. Unless is my Prerunner, then that's a different story.

AND FWIW... I don't think a Ford Raptor should be any 16 year old's first vehicle!

Too much power, center of gravity is high, and it can be a difficult vehicle to maneuver for a novice driver...

Just wanted to offer you something to at least think about....

For most people out there I would agree with you 100%. Most kids don't have the seat time or the common sense to get throught their teenage years, not saying mine will, but he will have the seat time.
My brother and I grew up going to the dezert with the family, started racing bikes at 6, started driving cars a few years later. My kid(due Aug.) will be driving in the dezert much earlier than 16, he will be learning how to read terrain starting ASAP on a bike(already have a CRF50 for him). Once he's old enough to reach the pedal's he will get a Trophy Kart

Once he grow's out of that we will build him a prerunner or he can take mine if I still have it and I will build a tube chassis(that is if everything stays the same).
I have no grand illusion's that he'll be a race car driver, but he will know his way around. And If he is anything like me he will have no problem driving fullsize trucks the day he turns 16


I dont think I've posted these, I just got them the other day
My brother and I in 79, he was 1 I was 2

 

[LVdezertdawg]

Outstanding pics AII, the dezert just has a way of getting into your blood!!!!

 

[AZ SVT]

AND FWIW... I don't think a Ford Raptor should be any 16 year old's first vehicle!

Too much power, center of gravity is high, and it can be a difficult vehicle to maneuver for a novice driver...

Several years ago when we first moved to N. Georgia, we lived in my wife's father's apartment while our house was being built... curvy roads, rainy afternoon... some 16 year old kid took the curve too fast, spun his truck 180 and hit the telephone pole in the yard tailgate first! He tried driving off, but I ran outside and told him to stop.... "Why I gotta stop? I'm okay!".... I pointed to the 12" telephone pole split at the bottom (only thing holding it up was the electric wire above it)...

Not long after the sheriff arrived, his daddy shows up and says... "This is a father's worst nightmare, to hear his kid's been in an accident..."

I can relate, my son was less than a year old at the time... then his daddy says "He just turned 16, and I bought him this new F150 for his birthday..."

Well, this new F150 had a nice CatBack Exhaust on it, and a 6" lift kit with big 'ol muddin' tires!

I'm thinking "Who gives a 16 year old a massive truck like this as their first vehicle"?

I think something like 60% of all kids will wreck their first vehicle before they're 21.... unless your son grows up on the farm driving your truck since he was 12...

I mean you no disrespect, but you might actually be endangering your son's life by giving him a vehicle he's not able to fully control as a novice driver...

I'm not telling you what to do, YMMV, but my son will be getting a rusted out 10 year old Honda/Camry for his first vehicle (and I'm a doctor and can afford any new car I want for him).

Just wanted to offer you something to at least think about....

I gave my kid a '93 F150 Lighting as his "first car" because WHEN he got in an accident I wanted him to win the wreck. The catch is, he didn't get it until he was 17+. Before that it was all training, baby; first with me or his mother in the truck, later he could run quick errands alone, then, only after I handed him the keys for good could he take a passenger. Good thing about a regular-cab pick-up is they can only take one or two passengers anyway.

My son did get in a couple fender-benders over the next few years, but, like the kid in your story, he never got hurt. Another thing, my oldest was a very mellow kid that appreciated what he had and it was a good bet that street racing was not high on his list of things to do. If he wanted to race we went to the track. That was good training too!

My youngest is going to be a different story! He's only 10, but he fears nothing! All I can hope for is that his tendency to get car sick lasts until he's 21!