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[Too many Kubotas]

Don't think there's a Charger anymore, or yet, since the new EV is supposed to be called that. But there's always the wonderful Hornet.

 

[Dftodd]

Trucks stopped being trucks when the boxes got short and the cabs started sitting 6.
They're just heavy duty SUVs with open storage areas out back.
They can go off road.
They can haul a large family around.
They can make a dump run with 5-6 large cans.
They can't haul anything of significance from Home Despot or the appliance store.

I like my heavy duty SUV with open bed

 

[Dftodd]

In the "75% of truck owners..." thread that change hasn't quite sunk in yet.

There I feel like a 1-man army against the 1/2-ton crowd.

My truck does everything I need. I use the bed when it's convenient. But pull my trailer when I'm getting something heavy. With an expanded metal ramp that goes the whole width of the trailer, it's much easier for me to unload something heavy.

I either use the two wheeled dolly and roll it down the ramp.

Or I drive up the ramp with the pallet forks on the tractor and scoop it.

 

[Dftodd]

I own a truck primarily for towing my trailers (boats & firewood logs), but since my other vehicles are of the sportier variety, the truck is also my "bad weather" vehicle. I do not like driving automatic transmission in snow and ice, because I am quite confident I can feel slippage between the tires and roadway much better with a manual, than with any automatic.

I'll admit, auto is nicer for getting a trailer off a dead-stop on a hill. But I weigh the bad weather advantage of manual to be more important than that small convenience of starting heavy loads on hills with less effort or concentration. Besides, I've been driving manual almost exclusively for 35 years, so it's really second nature, at this point.

As to which I'd rather drive, I actually also enjoy manual. That's driving. With automatic, you're just "steering".


Yes, you can still get a vinyl floor. But if I recall, it really limits you on other options, the way they tend to package options now. I know you can buy a v6 std cab with a vinyl floor and the most basic seating from most brands, they badge them "fleet truck" or "work truck", with the aim of selling them to construction companies, etc. But if you want a V8, or an extended cab, or nicer seats... the vinyl floor option often goes away.

Ram offers some pretty nice thick and deep-welled hard rubber floor mats, which are actually standard on the Outdoorsman package I have. The truck may be carpeted, but you'd only know that by the bit of exposed space on the transmission tunnel, the rest is under these heavy mud trays they call floor mats.

Back when F550's came with the 6 speed manual transmission, you just put the truck in granny gear, eased off the clutch till it caught and then let off the brake and got on the throttle.

Granny gear would pretty much idle up a hill, even with a heavy load on it.

 

[kozal01]

My truck does everything I need. I use the bed when it's convenient. But pull my trailer when I'm getting something heavy. With an expanded metal ramp that goes the whole width of the trailer, it's much easier for me to unload something heavy.

I either use the two wheeled dolly and roll it down the ramp.

Or I drive up the ramp with the pallet forks on the tractor and scoop it.

Don’t waste your breath. Go read the thread he mentioned and you’ll see he can back nothing he says with any relevant facts and will just deflect anytime he is wrong. Not worth your time.

 

[Dftodd]

I see tons of pickups where it's obvious that nothing has ever been carried except people.
Large, jacked up, big tires, solid rear cover. Shiny.

I also see many being used as work vehicles.

So it's a split. Many are lifestyle as paying > 70,000 for a pickup seems a bit steep to shove dirty tools in the back.

Lots of kids running around my area with trucks like that. Jacked up 2wd models talking smack about how their trucks will out pull anyone.

Kid starting talking smack to my coworker at the local truck stop.

Kid said his truck would out pull anything. Let's go out and hook up right now and we'll settle this!!!

Coworker said "Your on!!!"

He then proceeded to walk out to his dodge dually diesel and said "Let's go Junior!!!"

Kid started back tracking in a hurry

 

[Dftodd]

I see tons of pickups where it's obvious that nothing has ever been carried except people.
Large, jacked up, big tires, solid rear cover. Shiny.

I also see many being used as work vehicles.

So it's a split. Many are lifestyle as paying > 70,000 for a pickup seems a bit steep to shove dirty tools in the back.

I don't purchase trucks new. When I'm in the market, I hunt for what I want with low miles, low price, etc....

I bought my 2016 Sierra 1500 in 2020 with 40k miles on it.

I was out the door at the dealership for around $20k.

I priced out a new one set up identically to mine. It would run about $80,000. I would probably be out the door for somewhere around $65,000.

The math doesn't work for me. I'll run this one into the ground since it's been paid off for 3 years.

 

[LouNY]

My last standard cab pickup was a 1978 Chevy, I had an IH crew cab prior to that. Every pickup since has been either a crew or extended cab. Many were 3/4 ton with the 6 foot bed a few had the 8 ft bed or a flatbed. I ran the wheels off a 78 Ford crew cab with a hot rodded 390. That poor thing was all over from Texas to the Dakotas while I was doing Industrial Instrumentation 60,000 to 90,000 miles a year many of them pulling a trailer for work or stock car.. Swap out the motor just about every year 390's setup with a Quadrajet carb, that got a lot of looks a GM carb on the Ford motor.

 

[kozal01]

My last standard cab pickup was a 1978 Chevy, I had an IH crew cab prior to that. Every pickup since has been either a crew or extended cab. Many were 3/4 ton with the 6 foot bed a few had the 8 ft bed or a flatbed. I ran the wheels off a 78 Ford crew cab with a hot rodded 390. That poor thing was all over from Texas to the Dakotas while I was doing Industrial Instrumentation 60,000 to 90,000 miles a year many of them pulling a trailer for work or stock car.. Swap out the motor just about every year 390's setup with a Quadrajet carb, that got a lot of looks a GM carb on the Ford motor.

The old dent side Fords are by far the best body style truck ever made. I grew up riding in my dad’s 76 F-250 highboy, absolutely loved that truck. My dream truck is that body style truck on a modern super duty chassis with the old slow but trusty 7.3 PS.

 

[Dftodd]

The old dent side Fords are by far the best body style truck ever made. I grew up riding in my dad’s 76 F-250 highboy, absolutely loved that truck. My dream truck is that body style truck on a modern super duty chassis with the old slow but trusty 7.3 PS.

I don't know about the 7.3 power stroke being slow. A company i worked for years ago coverted a regular cab, short bed F250 with naturally apirated 7.3 to a dually with 4.11 axle.

Since it was a short box, this was by far the goofiest looking truck you have ever seen.

That truck would easily roast the tires with a pallet of concrete in the bed on a gravel road when shifting to 2nd gear and flooring it.

Every new employee with that company experienced it the first time they drove that truck. And everyone was out watching them take off with it the first time

I hooked onto the 30ft gooseneck trailer and went to the northeast corner of Vermont for a load of cedar boards. I had the trailer rounded with lumber.

I hit some pretty big hills and would run up them without having to downshift.

I pulled off into a truck stop and had two vehicles follow me in wondering what I had for an engine in that truck