Agreed. I have a ‘99 Silverado with a single cab (bench seat, crank windows!) but an 8’ bed, and it is the most amount of truck I ever predict needing. I will drive it until it either falls apart and I can’t weld it back together, or gasoline is no longer available. And before the latter happens, I will probably get around to converting it to electric. It wasn’t a “small” truck at the time it was new but it is now, yet somehow it can still carry more than today’s “big” trucks – including two entire motorcycles with the tailgate shut or a stack of 4x8 ply or drywall.
The current trend of bloated trucks that may as well just be SUV’s is beyond stupid. You can’t haul anything useful in the back of them, nor can you put anything in the cab for fear of tearing your leather or scratching the screens on your DVD players. Most people who buy them would be better off with a station wagon instead.
Agreed. I have a ‘99 Silverado with a single cab (bench seat, crank windows!) but an 8’ bed, and it is the most amount of truck I ever predict needing. I will drive it until it either falls apart and I can’t weld it back together, or gasoline is no longer available. And before the latter happens, I will probably get around to converting it to electric. It wasn’t a “small” truck at the time it was new but it is now, yet somehow it can still carry more than today’s “big” trucks – including two entire motorcycles with the tailgate shut or a stack of 4x8 ply or drywall.
The current trend of bloated trucks that may as well just be SUV’s is beyond stupid. You can’t haul anything useful in the back of them, nor can you put anything in the cab for fear of tearing your leather or scratching the screens on your DVD players. Most people who buy them would be better off with a station wagon instead.