Because you might want to haul things like drywall or plywood, materials that were originally sized and sold in the sizes they are sold in so they’d easily fit into a pickup bed. Try hauling 4x8 drywall in a new truck, since it’s impossible to find a standard bed on any truck that’s not a fleet special. You load it…

Because why would you buy a work truck without a usable bed? Plus they look cooler...

You know who would by this truck? This guy:

I’m going to go with the 1992 Dodge Ramcharger 5.9L (360).

With no supercharger and a lack of power, this Durango is more of a quiet riot.

Haha. Ok, so you just totally made it up? Got it.

Conversions using OEM platform-specific parts are the exception. This thing isn’t cobbled together and “engineered” by some goofball in his parent’s garage- it uses factory engineering and factory parts. NP.

...and 286 hp! That’s 6 more than my wife’s Honda Pilot.

No matter how much you sex it up, it’s still a 1998 Explorer for $11,000.

The 5.0 is probably my favorite example of this phenomenon (although the Buick V6 best known as the 3800 has more fascinating history thanks to the AMC connection). They took an early ‘60s design, enlarged it to 302 cubic inches for 1968 or so, then ran it for decades.

I, for one, disagree for one reason alone - 90's plastic parts and their eventual degradation. There is nothing more frustrating than trying to weedle one of these little connectors or tabs out only to have it crush, break, or snap.

Chrysler Corp had its problems when Daimler-Benz took them over. But not only did DB not fix what was wrong with Chrysler, they also managed to screw up just about everything that Chrysler was doing right.

If only somebody would just make a car that already had an LS in it.

I’ve got a 86 shortbox d100 too!

That explains all the perfect running Turbo Dodges still driving around today.

Here’s my 17 year old shitbox, which while not as old as your shitbox, is still proof that you can buy a Jeep and have it last with little fuss. Tracy continues to fall victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is to never get involved in a land war in Asia. Slightly less well known is to not buy a Jeep…

Not every great car is a sporty car.

Some people have not a single fucking clue what is a good car from a bad one. “It’s old, junk it.”
I bought a 1987 Toyota 4Runner Turbo 4x4 from a junkyard parking lot because the owner thought it was better off as scrap metal.
The SOB has a removable top, turbo, a sweet digital cluster, original paint, straight body,…

Well I do think that some are just made better and that helps, since the “life support” age moves up. Its one thing to start pumping money into a 300,000 mile 25 year old car its another to start that process at 180,000/15.