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Hurley

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Anti-Douché:lol:
 
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Non douche, bone stock 2002 2500 on load range E street tires. Nearly owned this truck for about $9500 but last minutes decided I really hate driving vehicles I can't afford (financed) and on top of everything else, I have no intentions on ever building or owning a rig that needs to be towed anywhere.
 
My '99 F250, sold it about 4 years ago, with about 225 on the clock...

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My "new" 2006 F250...went to a short bed (mistake), crew cab (for the dog)

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Both just like they came from the factory...but added the camper shells.
 
4 door long bed? I can't turn it around unless I had about an acre.... I also couldn't get it in our back parking lot at work. No one ever asks me to drive everywhere. It's lighter, so I can haul more without a ridiculously high tag weight/cost. RCLBs are usually cheaper too, everybody wants a crew cab truck, but nobody wants reg cabs! Just some of my reasons, but I'm biased. All three of my trucks are reg cab/long beds with manual transmissions and no power options like door locks or windows.

That being said, my next vehicle (should I ever get one) will be a crew cab truck and I'll leave it bone ass stock. Maybe. I DO hate that crew cabs have a resonance problem in the cab with some louder than stock exhausts. My buddy's old crew cab Dakota was unbearable if you were riding in the back seat.
 
I feel like both of my trucks are pretty reasonable. They're very capable, both are locked front and rear, they get used/driven all the time, and they're completely legal. The old K30 even gets really good mileage and tows anything I've ever asked of it.
 

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I think the most useful truck is a crew cab short bed, plenty of room inside to haul people or stuff enough of a bed to haul anything you need. People say you cant fit a piece of plywood in the back of a shortbed but my thoughts are if your grabing more than 3 or 4 pieces of plywood which you can angle over the top of a closed tailgate on a shortbed then your doing a big enough project that you will be hauling a trailer to Grab everything else you need to go along with the plywood anyway.

But I do like a reg cab truck also.
 
Heres mine only thing thats different right now is I put Tow mirrors on it and yes they stay up all the time but its too aggravating to adjust the mirrors all the time just because yall think the truck never hauls anything. lol

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Stuntman Autoworks said:
I think the most useful truck is a crew cab short bed, plenty of room inside to haul people or stuff enough of a bed to haul anything you need. People say you cant fit a piece of plywood in the back of a shortbed but my thoughts are if your grabing more than 3 or 4 pieces of plywood which you can angle over the top of a closed tailgate on a shortbed then your doing a big enough project that you will be hauling a trailer to Grab everything else you need to go along with the plywood anyway.

But I do like a reg cab truck also.
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I agree. You can still haul long stuff 2x s with the tailgate down. I've had 16 footers sticking 8' out the back of my SB quad cab. Used bundles of roof shingles to weigh done the front, then some straps to keep them centered.

Back in the days when I was landscaping, I to hated fagging up 3 or 4 wide in a regular cab.
 
A short box pickup is useless. Might as well be a car.


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