It's All About The Little Details---Trailers Flatbeds and Tow Rigs

YotaAtieToo said:
It's because the 90s and 00s Chevy were low riders and they sucked at anything remotely offroad like any kind of job site. Then you have the Chevy 5500s that are ******ed tall, but still have the tcase 6" off the ground.

My 97 F350 was almost identical to my 2018 F250 company truck.

It does suck for getting **** out of the bed, but ripping **** off underneath or popping holes in pans or tanks sucks worse.
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I am going to point out, my 2g dodge lifted on 37s has the about same hood height as a newer superduty 4x4, similar bed height. However, there is like a whole nother foot of ground clearance under frame on my truck.

The body panels on new trucks are ******ed large, every dimension. Like a pickup truck but all swollen up. Doors taller, longer, cab longer wider taller, bedsides taller but with no more usable space. :flipoff2:
 
Alexis700 said:
I am going to point out, my 2g dodge lifted on 37s has the about same hood height as a newer superduty 4x4, similar bed height. However, there is like a whole nother foot of ground clearance under frame on my truck.

The body panels on new trucks are ******ed large, every dimension. Like a pickup truck but all swollen up. Doors taller, longer, cab longer wider taller, bedsides taller but with no more usable space. :flipoff2:
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Plenty of examples... hell the newer Ford Rangers are almost the same as a gmt400
 
Alexis700 said:
I am going to point out, my 2g dodge lifted on 37s has the about same hood height as a newer superduty 4x4, similar bed height. However, there is like a whole nother foot of ground clearance under frame on my truck.

The body panels on new trucks are ******ed large, every dimension. Like a pickup truck but all swollen up. Doors taller, longer, cab longer wider taller, bedsides taller but with no more usable space. :flipoff2:
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Except it doesn't.

You're speculating, I measured them side by side.
 
Yeah doesnt have more usable space, thats what I said.

CAFE , corporate average fuel economy standards set by EPA play a big role in why every generation of pickup truck since 2003 or so is more swollen than the last.
 
I mean the bed isn't any taller, everyone said that when the aluminum fords first came out. I had a 2018 F250 and 1997 F350 in my driveway. All the height and depth measurements were extremely close. I posted about it on here somewhere about 5 years ago.

The 4th gen up dodges look giant when I park next to them in my 97, but I haven't been wierd enough to take a tape out on someone's pick up in the parking lot.
 
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