A couple of years ago, I looked into buying a new pick-up truck to replace
my faithful '79 Chevy (1/2 ton w/8' bed & heavy springs). I'm getting to
the point where I will need to do some major sheet metal (rust) repair and I
thought maybe it was time. Well, the more I looked at the new stuff, the
more I realized how attached I am to my old Chevy and what a great old truck
it is. We've the original owners (it was purchased to be our farm truck)
and it's been virtually trouble-free for the past 31 years and 91,000 miles.
The only thing I dislike about it is that it's an automatic instead of
having a "truck" four speed. But even the automatic is nice and the 350
4bbl engine sure makes it nice for towing a car trailer.
I guess the only way I'll ever replace it is by restoring it (oh,
crap.....ANOTHER bloody project), which isn't in the cards right now. Glad
I'm not in a position where business dictates a new truck every few years.
Frank, you could always find an older one and restore it for your next work
truck. That's the only way you're ever going to get a "real" truck, that
will hold up well and not cost you an arm & a leg for all of the yuppie
engineering options that the manufacturers are imposing on us who use a
truck as a TRUCK.
Bud Osbourne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@comcast.net>
To: "Edmund Conen" <conen@bellsouth.net>
Cc: "Spridgets List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Another British engine (not)
> On 6/20/2010 6:26 PM, Edmund Conen wrote:
>> per bjshov8...
>>>> Of course we have a lot of people that drive pickups and never carry
>>>> anything more than an ice chest in the back.
>>
>> That would be my bro-in-law. Bought one of those full-size Ford F150s
>> with 4 doors and the super-short bed.
>
> And THIS is the reason I could not buy a REAL pickup truck off the lot.
> I had to order one and it just came in, I pick it up tomorrow.
> But a 2 door, 4x8' bed is no longer "Standard".
> A standard pickup today has 4 doors and a tiny bed, sort of like my
> Jaguar, 4 doors and a trunk, but with the truck you have to pay extra for
> a plastic cover so now you have a butt ugly pickup truck with a cheap
> plastic cover over the cargo space.
> But you also get more bells and whistles in the new foo-foo trucks than
> any Cadillac, Lincoln, or Benz.
> I am a carpenter by trade, I need a R E A L pickup truck 5 days a week.
> But all those woosey asses ruined the pick up truck by wanting crap that
> should be on fancy cars.
> Oh I looked at the foo foo trucks but at 50 to 60 thousand dollars for a
> truck, I just could not believe it.
> But the chrome trimmed cup holders sure would have looked nice until I
> bought my first coffee (on the way home from the dealer) and it spilled on
> those chrome trim rings.
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> Lots of Sprites
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