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Originally Posted by john walker's workshop
Long bed trucks are way more useful than short beds, unless yer a poser.
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Thanks for all the comments. Short-bed trucks are worthless to me as I use trucks as.... Trucks!
Not uncommon to carry sheets of plywood or sheetrock. Drop the tailgate and long stuff lays flat.
The current trend is to cut down long beds into short beds. Kinda like when it was popular to "upgrade" long-hood 911s into a platypus. No thanks.
Most of these trucks are either rusted out junk worth $1000-1500, or restored show trucks going for $20,000+.
Took my a while to find this one. Bought it from the original owner's son. The plan was to swap in all new running gear. An LS-based engine, overdrive tranny, disc brakes, and paint it a different color. I'm a sucker for Hugger Orange, which is indistinguishable from Porsche's Tangerine.
Then I find out the Gold/White combo was a 1968 50th Anniversary special edition, and this one dropped into my lap:
which is what I'm driving now. Hugger Orange and disc brakes from the factory.
Kinda fun when loading something at Home Depot and have guys with $50,000 Silverados and F-250s tell me what a cool truck I've got.
I have no need for two trucks, but it's hard to find one of these that is so original and rust-free as the '68.
Had a long phone call with the Corvette's owner. It definitely needs a bit of TLC. I may go look at it, but I'll probably let the gold truck sit and do nothing for a little while longer.