So, I'm not really sure what my Grandpa paid for her in '93 when her got her from a friend & coworker. But he gifted the truck to my mother as a high school graduation present. I remember the day he brought the truck home.
She drove the truck throughout the 90s, until about '03 or '04, when the fuel pumps failed. At that point she went to sitting in my grandparent's back yard. Then the truck was promised to me to be my first truck by my mother about that same time. I just had to get her running and get my license. Then in '06, as I'm in driver's ed, my mother up and sells the truck to her high school buddy, for $500. While the truck was titled in my Grandpa's name. It has never been in her name, ever.
I'm late '07, we bought her back, now running, but slightly modified with obnoxious exhaust (which somehow got stolen the night before we went to pick her up, from a fenced in property). I don't remember exactly, but I'm 95% certainly that we gave $1900 for her at that point. I think it was mostly my Grandpa that paid for her. Because I remember he went with me to pick her up with my '99 K3500 I had at that time. I distinctly remember hitting a little whitetail spike buck on the way home.
Unfortunately, in 2007, while I was legally able to drive, I was not legally old enough to transfer a title into my name. So her title went into the fire safe, pending me turning 18, as she was bought back for me. I worked to pay back her cost, over the next couple of years. I wound up having to completely rebuild the throttle body to get her run decent and idle without assistance, as the injectors were leaking horrifically by that point in her life. So I think I invested roughly $200-$250 into the throttle body gaskets and injectors, and she was good to go.
Spent the next year or so with her down at my buddy's place tinkering on her alongside his '87 Chevy R10, where she still needed exhaust, and had one tire that kept going flat. After a year of tinkering on her at his place, I moved her back home, where a few weeks later, she caught fire when I went to start her. It completely slagged the negative cable and lightly toasted some other wires.
Well, as a result of that, and life happening (as it does), it was 2018, when my Grandpa passed away before I got back out there to do anything with her. It was at that point that I realized I had never transferred the title into my name. Went to get it out of the safe, and it was gone. My mother and I had suffered a fallout a few years prior, so I suspected she had taken it. But I kept checking with the DMV, and it stayed in the name of the lady we got it back from. Then I suffered a couple of job losses, so I couldn't afford to get the title work taken care of in a bonded title until recently. $40 for the application, $100 for the bond, and then about $250 for the taxes, late penalties, and registration and title fees, shes now in my name.
So, that's the scenic route of saying that getting her back and in my name cost me about $2500 roughly, and 17 years of my life (mostly because I'm an idiot at times)