blt2ski
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Mike,
I would by the chassis, but don't want a crew cab short box. A dual cab/6.5' box or reg cab 8' box yes. Back then if it didn't have an 8' box, it was out of the question. I was towing/hauling a lot more, so it made sense to skip the.lightet version.
As I'm trying to .point out, the 8600-9200 gvwr truck of any body bed style, does not exist today! You go from a 7200 1500 to an 11000 gvwr truck! There's nothing in the middle!
Marty
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Grit dog
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^More like nothing between 7800 and 9999lbs but what’s your point?
1500HDs and 7 lug F250s weren’t popular 20 years ago and the Titan XD wasn’t in recent years.
Are they useful? Sure. They’re fine. But why would ya? To get ridiculed by the geezernet weight cops about how you need a HD?
It’s just not a popular market segment. Just like compact pickups anymore. Or reg cab trucks. Or sedans. Or…..
You’ve shown yourself that you can do much more than the “rating” with a super light duty half ton and a 3/4 ton has a lot of headroom for capacity (regardless of the weight cops whose arguments are now proven dumb with the higher 3/4 ton gvws that have magically appeared recently.
In short, I do t really follow what you’re trying to say?
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A 1500HD was a 2500 with 1500 badging. You could ONLY get a crew cab with a 6.5' bed. It was no different suspension wise than my 81, 88, 96 or 2000 SW trucks with 8600 or 9200 gvwr's. My point that you aren't getting to a degree, but just typed it, is the dot class 2b 8400-10000 lb gvwr truck is no more. Your into a class 3 now from an LD for class 2, 6001-8400.
For those of us that had these trucks, they are better setup than yours and my 1500. Cheaper than the class 3 versions available now.
Yes I have to a degree beffed up my 1500, it is doing everything I need it to do. But I could see for a number of us, having an equal to the old 8600-8800 GM, Ford, Dodge basic 25 series truck option in today's market.
Marty
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All I can say is Marty’s view and the view of the other millions of consumers who actually are buying new trucks apparently differ. Otherwise I’d think that billion dollar companies would pick up on the desire for some market share in a highly profitable vehicle line.
Same as HD suvs apparently. Although at least a new HD suv would fill a niche that hasn’t existed in any form for over 10 years now and was dwindling 15 years ago.
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blt2ski wrote:Mike,
I would by the chassis, but don't want a crew cab short box. A dual cab/6.5' box or reg cab 8' box yes. Back then if it didn't have an 8' box, it was out of the question. I was towing/hauling a lot more, so it made sense to skip the.lightet version.
As I'm trying to .point out, the 8600-9200 gvwr truck of any body bed style, does not exist today! You go from a 7200 1500 to an 11000 gvwr truck! There's nothing in the middle!
Marty
Got it. I won't have a truck without an 8 foot bed.
Mike
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Funny how a little discussion about fender flares that was just getting interesting gets closed but this horse-corpse-flailing session and others are allowed to continue unabated.
I thought the whole point of the 3/4 ton, class 2b, whatever you wanted to call it, was to let commercial operators slip under the radar by having vehicles rated under 10,001 so their employees didn't have to have CDLs to drive a pickup truck?
What do those guys do now that there are no more class 2b trucks?
Putting 10-ply tires on half ton trucks since aught-four.
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ssthrd
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Lol. I thought that the whole point of this thread was to compare the capabilities of a 1500 Silverado and a Tundra.
It’s interesting to follow these discussions as they progress to who knows where. Hopefully OP got what he wanted.
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ssthrd wrote:Lol. I thought that the whole point of this thread was to compare the capabilities of a 1500 Silverado and a Tundra.
It’s interesting to follow these discussions as they progress to who knows where. Hopefully OP got what he wanted.
He dropped the Tundra idea and honed in on F150s directly after creating this thread.
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ssthrd
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Guess I hafta pay more attention.
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Grit dog
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ssthrd wrote:Guess I hafta pay more attention.
Lol, it's tough when so many posters have squirrel moments...
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