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06-19-2012, 11:44 AM
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Re: stepside; why?
I think the fleetside was twofold..
one like the cameo. was style as the 50's was all style but also the marketeers one upmanship.. the fleetside offered more cubic inches/feet of cargo room.. sorry special K not everyone hauled goods the size of a stepside or beds with wheel wells outside the bed.. the first beds are that way because cars where that way.. that was the STYLE then. when cars lost that. the fleet side was more inline with the buyers wants.. and as a bonus more cargo room.. I like both.. but long beds look goofy with the stepside better question is why the short bed lifed on in the 50-70's when trucks where still for the most part used as trucks.. |
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06-19-2012, 02:54 PM
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Re: stepside; why?
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 I can hear them now "The truck before was a stepside, and the one before that, and dads old 1938 truck before that was", etc, etc, etc. That's the way trucks had always been and that's what people were used to. Took decades for the next generation to warm up to it. I remember a few years ago when 2wd jeep wranglers started popping up. I still to this day think it's dumb to have an off road vehicle that is 2wd. Slowly but surely there is a growing market for it so that's what the OEMs are going to build. I also think it's dumb that you can no longer get a standard transmission in a GM truck of any kind! DUMB! But I digress...
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Re: stepside; why?
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 For instance,I said that? ^
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