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What are lifted pickups good for?
Evidently, this:
Man nips road rage incident in the bud by parking pickup on top of Camry - Autoblog
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I suppose it's the redneck version of hotrodding. I have no use for a lift on my F250 diesel, it already sits too high to reach over the side for something in the bed, and loading firewood is done with a frontend loader, not by hand.
The difference is, I use my truck to haul, and pull stuff, not try to impress anyone. |
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02-03-2017, 01:46 PM
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The guy in the Camry sounds like a hot head/nut job.
However the guy in the truck is lucky he didn't get arrested too.
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I have to be courteous to everyone when I drive the truck. So I give a wide buffer of safety to pedestrians, bicycles, little old ladies with walkers, the homeless, paper boys, etc etc. I just sit in the cab and smoke my stogies and chill out. But if someone wanted to play bumper cars with me, I have something like 20K pounds of steel to play with. This kid ran into me once in a parking lot and his little car looked like a furby vomited car guts on itself.
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I knew a guy who had a mildly lifted truck, and his wife got it in the divorce. He was a drunk, and God knows what she was on, but one day they were arguing about the kids on the phone. She drove over to his house, and tried to drive through it. Literally.
He tried to get between the truck and the house, so she ran him over. Literally. I thought he was kidding me, until he pulled his shirt up, and I could see the tread marks on his chest like they were embossed on. Nice well defined welts, diagonally across his torso. I don't know why he isn't dead, but she missed his head, and I guess the ground was soft and muddy. The two 4 YO twins would normally have been in the room that she demolished, watching TV, but they were in the kitchen having dinner. What fun. I looked at the house, and helped him to put together an insurance estimate. That was about 10 years ago. Unless you are a mudder, buy the Mustang. |
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02-04-2017, 05:01 AM
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When in HS, 1976, friends Dad had a C30 pickup truck. Not C10 or C20, but C30. It was huge. He used it to pull a 5th wheel cattle trailer. It had 7/8 ton running gear which was as big as he could get without going to dual wheels in the rear. It looked like a regular pickup, except it was large enough His dad, mom, sister, him, and me could all sit on the bench seat an it was not crowded.
After college I had this...  4 inch suspension lift 34" tires. Went off roading all the time in it. Dirt, mud, snow, trail blazing though the woods, fun.
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according to the stickers I've seen the trucks are lifted to keep the fat girls out.
doesn't seem to work well though.
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02-04-2017, 06:19 AM
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Here is what they are good for...
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I am always perplexed. What is the point of raising the cab way up if the axle to ground distance stays the same or is increased only slightly with bigger tires? Visibility and suspension articulation I guess are the only benefits but I don't see it significantly increasing ground clearance much. And how much suspension articulation are you getting if you keep stick axles? The monster trucks and race trucks all run independent wishbones on all 4 corners.
As for the bed height, IMO it's unfortunate all modern pickups have such a high profile. My 1500 Silverado bed sides are too tall to reach over to put something in or get something out. Next time you see a pre-90's pickup take note of how accessible the bed is.
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Tacomas have A Arm suspension in the front Longer travel shocks and other suspension parts to get the suspension more range and clearance. that plus simply clearance at the body for bigger tires But some people do it just for the looks
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Not my thing but hey I like all car guys/gals.
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