Truckspotters

[racsan]

Why did they have to ruin the ranger by making it a car with half a truck bed attached to it?

Cause too many consumers wanted a crew cab but didn’t want the super long wheelbase with a crewcab & a full bed. I dont mind a super cab but Id have no need for a crew cab. If I somehow ended up with one Id pull the back seat & have a big toolbox back there. Or build a bulkhead behind the front seats & extend the bed into the cab.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I understand your point of view completely.

I just think it sucks that if someone wanted a full bed with a big cab they would have to special order something that should have already been available without special ordering it.

 

[Rick W]

My 96 F250 is a super cab. There’s a ton of space behind the front seats, but honestly, it’s a pain in the neck to get stuff in and out of there. They didn’t make the three door, with the small door for the back of the extended cab, and the four-door for the extended cab, until after mine. I would’ve loved to have one of those, and I’d even consider a four-door now, just to get stuff in and out of the back more easily. But that’s my two cents.

 

[Li'l Work Truck]

Sometimes I think it would be nice to be able to take more passengers with me, but there are other vehicles for that. I don't need a "do-everything" vehicle. Besides, I'm not a bus driver.

 

[SenorNoob]

I wish I could say that. Feels like half of what I do on my off time is drive people around. It gets old fast.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Saw a straight stock '91-2 Ranger yesterday, well it had hood issues for some reason, had the square body chevy fold going on for some reason... but the thing had the lumbar seats and center console, never really seen a regular cab in the wild with that setup stock...

 

[oldgeek]

 

[Rick W]

Check out this beauty! Gives me a woodie!!

I was flipping channels late night, and this was in the 1986 movie “Raw Deal,” with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That’s the Austrian Oak as an ex FBI agent working on the side to try to find an informant who is getting agents killed, and he rams that thing through the downstairs of a building through a bunch of bad guys. I almost cried when the truck got scratched.

(NOTE: “ram” is used here simply as an action word. The truck in the picture is an International Harvester Load Star w/Holmes double boom recovery equipment. I actually used to have one, but mine was a boom truck with a flatbed. I didn’t mean to imply there was a Ram truck that could actually ram anything or do any hard work.“

 

[racsan]

went to a auction this morning, this caught my eye. 1940-ish chevrolet. already had a online bid of $6K. not sure what it went for, what I went to see I didn’t get & it was a chilly morning so we left & went to bob evans for brunch.

 

[Rick W]

went to a auction this morning, this caught my eye. 1940-ish chevrolet. already had a online bid of $6K. not sure what it went for, what I went to see I didn’t get & it was a chilly morning so we left & went to bob evans for brunch.
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Love the truck, the bed, not so much. That needs to look more vintage unless utilitarian. But that’s my two cents.

 

[racsan]

just read where it went for 20K. Brenda was interested in a grandfather clock that ended up being kept by the family. I was interested in a big yard roller but I moved it & it had a hole, metal too thin to weld.