Re: Today's pickups

Posted by Fawteen on June 23, 2005 at 03:51:22 from (65.99.191.149):

In Reply to: Today's pickups posted by Old, working and loving i on June 22, 2005 at 08:11:42:

I guess I'm sorta in the middle here.

I LIKE power steering, power windows, delay wipers, cruise control and a decent radio.

I have 3 pickups. One of 'em is a "truck", a 1989 Chevy K3500 with a 454 and a TH400 automatic. It tows, it plows snow, it gets rode hard and put away wet, and it keeps on ticking. I live right on the ocean in Maine, not many tougher environments for rust problems, and it's got a little surface rust where the paint has been chipped, and that's it. Pretty remarkable. I'd have expected the cab corners and wheel wells to be rusted out years ago. Love that truck, hate putting gas in it, wish it had power windows and cruise.

My wife's vehicle is a '88 Dodge Dakota, V6 2wd shortbed with a cap. Nice grocery getter, good mileage, wish it had delay wipers and cruise.

My "car" is an '01 Dakota Quadcab 4x4 with ALL the bells and whistles, except it has cloth seats. Middlin' acceptable mileage, fun to drive, comfy, and completely $(%*ing useless as a "truck". No payload, 5' bed so it won't haul more than a few sacks of feed, if you try to tow anything bigger than a lawnmower trailer it feels like you're dragging the Queen Mary and the mileage reflects it. As long as I remember that it's really a "car with a REALLY big trunk" I'm fine. If I forget and try to use it like a truck, I'm always disappointed.

I bought it because the price was right, I needed 4wd, and with my screwed up back, I can't get in and out of these modern low-slung cars.

Now I ain't saying I wouldn't drive a $45,000 longbed crewcab diesel with 6 way power ashtrays, GPS, OnStar, a Bose sound system that costs more than my house, Personal Theatre, heated leather seats with built in massage, zoned climate control and my very own deeded patch of the Alaskan Oil Fields...

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