New trucks are no longer trucks

[88Squarebdy1ton]

My first job was at a nursery. It was a neighbor who owned it and let me work when I was 14, before I could get a legal work permit. I worked there until I was 17 when I started doing construction. I built my first car with money from azaleas, chrysanthemums and rhododendrons, so they’ve had a lasting impact on my life, haha.

I didn't know you had to have a permit to work

 

[Derrick]

Now that makes me think that trucks are turning into city slick vehicles or mall crawlers. Hell, i think my 2003 has too many accessories with dual climate control and push-button 4wd. What happened to trucks riding rough and being built for work not taking the kids to a soccer game and the truck never seeing more than a gravel parking lot.

 

[88Squarebdy1ton]

Hopefully this tailgate is just an optional one. If I had to buy a new truck I wouldn't want it, but of course, I don't so, good for me!

 

[DoubleDingo]

I didn't know you had to have a permit to work

No doubt. I recall working at our gas station at 6 years old washing windows. Someone came in once when I was couple years older and asked if I had a work permit. I had never heard of such a thing, and the person was serious and sounded like they wanted to turn in my grandparents for having me work. I enjoyed it, never thought of it as a negative. Met some cool people in that full serve gas station. Manzanar is a few miles north of there and each May there were time trials held at the abandoned WWII airport. Anyone could enter their car, truck, anything. One time a guy stopped in on his way home from the event and had a 427 stuffed in the back seat of a Corvair. That was a cool car. He said it was squirrely with all that power.

 

[DoubleDingo]

And I agree with all points about the tailgate. It is cool to some extent, but is way too gimicky for my liking. My newest vehicle is a 2007 Forester, fun as heck to drive, but I prefer my old rigs with 8 foot beds for the functionality, simplicity and durability. No computer throwing up a check engine light because of a leaky evap system that one cannot locate the supposed "small" leak on.

 

[Frankenchevy]

I didn't know you had to have a permit to work

I’m a dreamer, lol

You need a work permit from 15 years old until your 18th birthday or high school graduation in California.

 

[Lu Blunt]

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[Honky Kong jr]

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Pretty sad, don’t ya think?

 

[shiftpro]

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Are we to believe this is a coincidence?

 

[Benny B]

The new trucks now days you can’t drive over a curb or hit a opossum with out tearing something off it. you can bump a cow with the square body’s and older trucks and polish the bumper at the same time. one old man I knew his 60s chey trucks tail gate was so bowed down from hauling cows I believe it would have held 15 gallons of water in it.

 

[shiftpro]

The new trucks now days you can’t drive over a curb or hit a opossum with out tearing something off it. you can bump a cow with the square body’s and older trucks and polish the bumper at the same time. one old man I knew his 60s chey trucks tail gate was so bowed down from hauling cows I believe it would have held 15 gallons of water in it.

And we all know how many of these new trucks will still be on the road in 30 years....

 

[CSFJ]

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Brutal.

 

[Snoots]

But you remember the important things, the names of the plants that allowed you to build your first car.

I'm pleading the 5th on that one.

 

[Snoots]

And we all know how many of these new trucks will still be on the road in 30 years....

That's it. I quit. I'll challenge any of these newfangled-glorified 'trucks' to a tug of war for pink slips with my 45 year old 4WD squarebody. I'll sell the losers at auction and retire.

 

[Don R]

Somebody will get their high heel stuck in that new tailgate, sue GM and then they will go back to the real tailgate Where a man can fall off the back of his truck like a man..