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When I was a kid, my dad owned a pickup truck in Mississippi, and there seem to be tons of ways of avoiding getting the groceries wet, a bed-width toolbox behin
by seanmcdirmid 11mo ago
When I was a kid, my dad owned a pickup truck in Mississippi, and there seem to be tons of ways of avoiding getting the groceries wet, a bed-width toolbox behind the cab was the simplest way (and this was way before extended cabs were a thing).
If you are living in such an area where they can't even figure that kind of thing out, it sounds like there might be something in the water.
- ssl-3 11mo agoWhen I was a kid, a normal-sized American adult could open up a bed-width toolbox, look down inside of it, and easily remove a few bags of groceries before re-closing the lid -- all while standing flat-footed on the ground beside their normal-sized American truck. Things are not that way anymore; trucks got bigger. The top of the bed rail of an F150 Lightning is around chin height for a lot of folks: https://imgur.com/ZBOBqJc https://imgur.com/ZBOBqJc
- seanmcdirmid 11mo agoI don’t think a F150 lightning is wider than a 1985 Silverado.
- ssl-3 11mo agoIt's not the width that's a problem, but the height. Here's a brochure for the first-year F-150 (1984): https://xr793.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1984-Ford-F-Series-Pickup.pdf https://xr793.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1984-Ford-F-Ser... Have a look at some of the pictures that have people standing next to the truck. They'd be giants if they were able to have that kind of posture next to a modern F150.
- seanmcdirmid 11mo agoOh, I was a smaller kid back then and I guess I wouldn’t find it very accessible either way. Also my dad was tall. Coolers fit in the back also if you want to use those instead.
- ascorbic 11mo agoFunny to see so many workarounds to avoid the obvious solution of buying a vehicle with a roof instead of playing at being a farmer or builder.
- red-iron-pine 11mo agoin most cases the manufacturers offer an SUV version on the same chassis. E.g. the Hilux/Tacoma vs. it's SUV sibling the 4Runner It's one of the reasons why Honda and Hyundai are offering trucks -- they're already making the giant SUV, so just put a flat bed on it.