At the field house parking lot, sophomore Mariah Aguilar pulls up in a 1987 Ford F-150.

She first received the truck last summer from her uncle so she could drive herself and her sister to school.

“I had just gotten my hardship in the summer, and I really needed a car so my mom told my uncle and he gave me his old truck,” she said.

Aguilar said that her truck is already paid for, but she has to pay her own gas. She also said that her truck gets horrible gas mileage, 10 miles per gallon. She said she pays $50 every week.

Driving to school, Aguilar said she receives all kinds of stares and glares because her truck is camouflage.

“The only thing I hate about it is all the attention it gets,” she said.

The previous owner of the truck, before her uncle, spray-painted it camouflage. Aguilar said that if she could change it, she would, but she likes the camouflage.

“Being a country girl, I think the camo represents me as a person,” she said.