OT The Ranger

Figures. So you're one of those who drives bling.

Aw you can't afford to treat yourself to something nice.

Nope. But my wife drives a '19 Mustang Convertible.

Yes, our house is paid for too. You really don't have to come here to brag. No one cares. Really.

You are really amazing. Rail against those who buy expensive trucks who don't use them, then do exactly the same thing yourself. Truly sad.

By the "end of anera" I meant the '58/59 Apache body style was the last of the REAL Chevy trucks. On the farm we had an old 1949 1/4 ton Stude. It would haul a ton of grain to the mill and haul back the chop - and be in top gear before we passed the line fence. Replaced it with a '61 Chevy half ton and the springs were bottomed at 3/4 ton - and you werelucky to get it into third before you got to town. It was a pretty useless excuse for a truck. When I started at the garage we had a 68 3/4 ton heavy duty with a 292 and a 63 1/2 ton with a 232. We has the 68 licenced for a combined GVW of 22 tons for hauling a tri-axle trailer for hauling tractors and equipment - Blew the engine on it in '71 - The 63 was pretty sad already in '69 and it was never really worked hard

So you can show me where I railed against those who buy expensive trucks? Because you can't because I did not.

Your memory does not serve you well.

Truly amazing.

So you are refering to my comment on the price of trucks sometime back right? Well if that was railing against those who buy them, then your way you chose to remember is only to reinforce your view of me. Which does not really concern me that much.

Why you are so concern about me and what I do and think makes little sense.

So go on with your need to see me as someting to despise.

Comparing the base model vs platinum on the Ford site, most of the difference _is_ bling. The major functional difference is that the base model isn't available with dual-range 4wd, it has high-range only. I find this annoying because you can't get the short cab long bed in any model that has that option available.

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There were only a few Studebakers in the county but they built a heavy pickup, indeed.

We never used a pickup to haul grain--too small to even unload an early combine what more one by that time...two dumps filled the C60 "Big Blue" w/ hightops on...of course they weren't quite as tall as could have been because the elevator at the house didn't have enough vertical clearance since it had been built for wagon teams and we sized the bed/sides so it could be dumped there as well as haul to town.

We had own grinder and that was what the old '28 was used for for years...it had regular flat bed grain box about 8ft iirc. When we put the feed mill in the back of the old barn it included an elevator leg there as well and then could use the '59 C38 w/ lift instead of scoop shovel--a BIG improvement! :) That's when Dad ended up selling the '28 that I'm still unhappy about -- as well as the little Cat 22.

But, I can't agree w/ the assessment of no "real" trucks going forward--other than that period during the 70s of sorry body steel. Best I can recollect last 6 was the '48 1-1/2T, "Big Blue" is 283 w/

Beginning w/ the first C70 all the big trucks went diesel which used to be cheaper since they qualified back then under off-road farm fuel tax rules altho pickups stayed on gasoline.

Gotcha. Except for width and gas mileage the Ranger, Colorado, Canyon, Tacoma, and Frontier similarly equipped as their big brothers are close in price.

Food for thought, A cheap axle kit and wheels, brake light kit, and a hitch and you have a ladder trailer!

Sorry, I thought you ware talking about a F150 with the 5.5' bed. So no I do not believe a Ranger will let you haul plywood between the wheel wells, BUT you can put the plywood on top of the wheel wells with room to spare. Most pickups also allow you to add 2x material in indentations as spacers/shelves that are the same height as the wheel wells.

Well I am probably going with 4x4 but I will assume the older 2500 and up 4x4 were the ones with the wobble problem.

On 5/31/2019 3:18 PM, Markem wrote:> I like it, things I notice first it is about the same size as a F 150. > Has a lot of bells and whistles, but plugging in a USB flash drive > loaded with music is great (having once crashed while retrieving a CD > from the floor). The tail gate is lighter than other ones. Gas milage > is real good, about 21 + around town (not a city small town) and got > 32 on a trip in to St Louis on the interstate. When the weather gets > cold heated seats. > > Have been considering a travel trailer, with 7500 lbs rating.

I looked at it. I even considered waiting until it came out, but its not the Ranger I would want. I would like to have a real compact pickup like the old Ranger, S-10, Sonoma, B2000, etc with an optional fuel injected V6. I just didn't want another full size pickup truck. I already have a Duramax Diesel Silverado 2500HD for that.

I'ld like to see somebody come back with the no frills compact pickup truck for the guy just starting out.

My first new service truck was a GMC Sonoma, followed by a Chevy S-10. They were awesome little work trucks and I didn't mind handing them over to a technician who wasn't going to take care of them like I would. Yeah I had lots of bigger fanciers trucks after that, but its pretty hard to beat a true no frills compact pickup for a light work truck for technicians. I know. I know. Everybody wants to sell vans for that now. Bah humbug. Van's are for cheerleaders.

When I retired from contracting I traded my 3/4 utility truck in on a Jeep JK instead.

Exactly. It was my understanding that this is why Ford dropped the Ranger in the first place. They couldn't sell it for enough less than the F150 and still make money. Perhaps they figured out that people really wanted the smaller footprint (and willing to pay for it) and they were leaving that market open to the competition.

P.S. I thought they should have called it the F100, and done a retro job on it. They did a great job on the Mustang (but missed the boat completely with the T-Bird).

P.S.S. I bet GM would make a killing on a new blinged out El Camino.

Doesn't the DOT have something to say about what's roadworthy? I guess if the stuff HF sells works...

Sorry that I wasn't clear. My '01 Ranger didn't even have the indentations. They would have been greatly appreciated. I still like putting it between the wells.

My Dad had Studebakers until Studebaker went under. I was too small to really appreciate the truck, which he finally traded on an F-100 when something broke that he couldn't fix or get fixed without having a part made.

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There was a Studebaker dealership in town until very late in their existence but just never caught on in the farm or oil patch to make any numbers.

I won a raffle while in HS for some charity, Red Cross maybe???? that the prize was a red 1950 bullet-nose Studebaker sedan. It had been Dr Godfrey's; Judy drove it thru HS; when she graduated he donated it. I was real popular for a very short time after the transition until all her friends learned it wasn't hers any more... :)