Those extremely low crawl ratios are great where rocks and such are the typical obstacles you encounter, but when deep mud and soft sand are the rule of the day they just get you stuck. Sometimes the ability to maintain momentum and a reasonable amount of speed while spinning enough to keep the tire lugs cleaned out…

Ya' know I had a friend back in the day who wore "Bell Bottoms" so big you couldn't see his feet. I was more of a Levis 501 guy.

Leather is nice, holds up over time better than vinyl and doesn’t require seat covers like cloth, more comfortable than both and usually about $800 for the option.

I had a 76 F100 stepside. loved that truck but totaled it. Replaced it with an 82 F100 blue and white clone of the truck pictured. I've always been a fan.

Supercab with the 8' box? I question the box length. If you need it great, but nobody outside of contractors and farmers buy long bed trucks anymore. Come trade-in time that 6.5' bed will have the better resale.

Given that he's specifically addressing SUV's here (note the Pathfinder Jab), you're left with only the Wrangler.

So, I wonder if he saw the obviously racial nature of the video being shot around him or was he too caught up in the throng of blondes belles to recognize it for what it was. With more maturity would he have asked why aren't there any black women in your club? Perhaps refused to participate? Did he realize he was…

“older cars that only had four or five-speed transmissions”

You don't comprehend soft substrates do you Ken? Riding around the yard, driveway, a dry ditch. I get that it has great articulation. But I live in a swamp, how does it handle gumbo mud and 18" of water? I mean if you're going to label it an "Off-Road Monster" and all.

All the off-road ability of a Honda element. Really the big problem I see is with the bicycle tires. Off-road, and by that I don't mean on gravel or hard pack, I see a problem in soft substrates. I also see a wet behind in even shallow water.

Sure, I know it’s France and all. But I see no mud, water, or soft fluffy sand in any of those pictures (let alone any real rocks/Boulders). I’m thinking the “Off-Road Monster” title might be a wee bit much.

Nice job, I remember my first trip to the Junkyard. I needed a three speed column shift for my F-100. Found one in a Fairlane 500 spent a couple hours extricating it in the summer heat, installed that evening in my dorm parking lot.

Why RV plates? Where I live 1/2 ton pickups run the same tags as any other car on the road, only 3/4 ton and up trucks run different plates. Why would a personal truck be considered commercial?

Why is that? Would a Suburban or Tahoe be OK?

Now that’s a better answer! Personally I’d rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

Why? Do you fully utilize what you are currently driving every time you drive it? Sounds like societal pressures. Then again , as I said before drive what you like, what makes you feel good, and never feel like you need to justify it to anyone.

Last I checked this is still The United States of America, and you and I don't have to justify what we drive to anyone. Drive what you want!

Being a “Truck Guy” is about your passion for the conveyance, not your need. I admit, I haul a lot of stuff around in the back of my truck that you’d never want in a car. Dead animals, coolers full of fish, lumber, cement blocks, seed, fertilizer, chainsaws, gas and diesel jugs etc... I don’t know how folks without…

“Never been a truck guy, but I’d buy that. “

And here I thought it was Gollum from the next Lord of the Rings sequel!