I enjoyed driving the Pinto equipped with the larger overhead can engine but the lower displacement pushrod four was too weak to move the car with any real elan. Aside from being a bit tail happy and certain combustion foibles the Pinto wasn’t too bad.
Yup. Stay all the way right, unless you need to move left to pass slower traffic. Got the road all to your self? Then there’s nobody to pass, and you should be in the right lane.
Yeah, I ripped the seats out of the back of my Tundra and it serves the function of a tool box, which makes it pretty handy. The six foot bed drives me crazy, but the truck was all but given to me, so I can’t complain.
If it’s working that well for you, please send some my way. I’m dying here today.
This is a lot of typing for you to be wrong.
You are a god
This is incredibly wrong, an extended cab gives you a lot of great usable space, and with a 6.5' bed they look great (extended cab 8' bed trucks look terrible though, I’ll give you that).
Not really. All the other companies have no problem releasing new models.
This is so wonderfully written that if I saw the first 4 paragraphs as ad copy for the 2000 F-150, I would buy it immediately.
I’ll second all of the above. I had two regular cab long bed pickups, an ‘87 GMC, a ‘00 GMC, and then after kids, now I have a ‘12 Chevy extended cab. The 6'6" bed still allows me to carry drywall with the tailgate down, and almost as much mulch. The biggest thing is that when we’re buying large items like furniture,…
Agreed. I’ve busted out one truck’s back window with my head. That I recall.
I miss that old Ford (it had just about every option except a limited-slip and an automatic) every day!
40/20/40 split bench seats with a flip-down console are still the norm on fleet and regular-trim pickups. You can even get them on the Big 3's “entry luxury” trims (Ford Lariat, Chevy LTZ, Ram Laramie).
Even for a trackday, no more worries when you go to the bathroom or stop to eat that some opportunist is going to grap your EaZup (sp?), tool box, compressor, riding gear, etc.. Plus, it give you flexibility to go to tracks that are further away, car camping, still be able to haul work stuff, etc.
Usecase 3: You use your truck as God intended and you load your motorcycle in the back and take it to a track day.You need to keep your air compressor, tools, helmets, leathers, boots, stands, and assorted crap safe when you stop for dinner on the way home from the track or go in to pee at your gas stop. You…
An extended cab gives you a negligible increase in usable space and makes the truck ugly as fuck. Besides, the area between seat back and cab wall was the safest place to transport a 6-pack of beer in my 1993 F-150 (regular cab, of course).
Hear, hear. And with an extended-cab you can still have a long bed without your truck being longer than a school bus. Although the existence of the Dodge Mega Cab seems to suggest we’re in the minority on this opinion.
Bench seats need to come back in general. The vast expanse of center console between bucket seats makes car canoodling a difficult proposition.
Alright, so, I wrote this headline before I saw the gunsight on the horn button. Not a fan. Everything else, though. On point.