Thinking the truck would sell like hot cakes,

[Gunfighter14e2]

It's interesting what you can buy outside of this country, vs most money pits sold here. But keeping you a slave to debt is the plan,...

Would You Buy a Basic Vehicle If You Could? - EPautos - Libertarian Car Talk

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[sirhrmechanic]

If I could buy a 1979 K2500 (C2500?) big block 4x4 like we had new in the farm in 1979…. I’d buy it in a second!!!

No AC. Power nothing. Carb. I think it was a four speed. Manual locking hubs. Manual transfer case. Posi rear end. Cut snow like a hot knife through butter.

This is what a truck should be.

My ram had now been down for 6 weeks because ABS module failed and there are none available. Backorder. And snow is coming.

Fuck that shit.

Sirhr

 

[EddieNFL]

Available in 6 pax?

 

[whatsupdoc]

If I could buy a 1979 K2500 (C2500?) big block 4x4 like we had new in the farm in 1979…. I’d buy it in a second!!!

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No AC. Power nothing. Carb. I think it was a four speed. Manual locking hubs. Manual transfer case. Posi rear end. Cut snow like a hot knife through butter.

This is what a truck should be.

My ram had now been down for 6 weeks because ABS module failed and there are none available. Backorder. And snow is coming.

Fuck that shit.

Sirhr

Only rust could stop them. They were great trucks but here in the NE the body panels especially the
bottom of the doors went missing.

 

[ggmanning]

Our market is nuts. Difficult to find a truck that is not outfitted like a luxury vehicle. Last one I bought I had to search the commercial dealers. It has power windows but manual transfer, rubber floors, vinyl seats. Very hard to find a basic work truck any more. I can see me feeding cows in a Super Platinum, Laramie, High Country with sun roof, heated seats and steering wheel, premium sound, leather, 12" screen etc, etc. Merica.....sell the slave tax labor vehicles that most canniot afford and make them think they need it.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Only rust could stop them. They were great trucks but here in the NE the body panels especially the
bottom of the doors went missing.

Forunately, this one was a 'true' farm truck. In the winter, it mostly got used to plow, not run much in salt. So it lasted into the late 1990's...

But, alas, it was the salt that killed it.

Sirhr

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

This is why many refurb shops are opening, as most people are done with the Gucci shit from American mfg's. Working people do not want a rolling powered armchair, that takes a shit if a simple glitch transpires.

 

[kenny1773]

I would like the option to buy a basic car simply for reliability sake and not necessarily cost savings, but the cost savings would be good too.

IMO the more complex something is and the more features it has, the more probability something is going to break (or worse yet not be designed correctly and prone to failures). My sister had a car where the backup camera never worked right, after 20 trips to the dealer for warranty work, she traded it and got something else. That is just a stupid thing to have happen, but who has time to take their car back to the dealer every month...

This is how American cars are made

 

[chevy_man]

Piss and moan, but it's what the people buying new trucks want.

The problem is the cheap asses that want a stripper model aren't buying new.
So the average guy just wants leather, Bluetooth, and a ball chilling seat to cruise around in. He doesn't care about fixing it because he'll never own out of warranty and buys brand new.
That's what sells on the dealer lots. That's what the dealers restock with.

If the people who wanted a basic truck had kept buying them, they'd still make them. When Chevy dropped manual transmissions it was because the demand had dropped to less than 8% of new trucks. Everyone says they want one, but they damn sure weren't ordering them to drive the market.

 

[ironman56]

Hell yes ,I'd buy a brand new 76 Ford 3/4 ton single cab with a 302 V8 and a 5 speed manual transmission, manual windows and vinyl seats, although I do like the backup camera on my 23 bronco sport, but could do without that , being in Texas I'd have to have AC though

 

[supercorndogs]

I will take mid 90s to early 2000s vehicles all day long over stuff from the 70 and 80s. I drove a 73 chevy square body short bed on 35s all through high school. Owned a handful more over the years 73,74 and 87 k5 blazers. My 1998 k2500, I bought over 20 years ago has been great.