So. Cool.
SO much more personality than a modern HugeBoxyMacho Pickup.
Cooler than that. Dad had a Moss Para Camper.
A 1956 Meteor Rideau (Canadian car, by Ford)
Love the license plate! CDN56EH — get it?
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Canadian 1956, eh?
A buddy just bought a '67 Austin Healey Sprite and I got to drive it around his town. So I was probably somebody else’s most interesting car they saw that day. Damn that’s a fun little car to drive.
Just wow!
Saw a lifted Miata coming up Bridger Canyon this morning–probably 12" clearance, axle extenders, 30" M/S tires on. Sure–why not?
Well, there is at least one monster Smart.
I think it’s a fortwo body on a Unimog chassis.
Either one is “smarter” than the lowered dually F350 diesel I saw last summer with low profile 22"s on!
And another old pickup I saw this weekend. A Chevy C/20, I’m guessing late 1960s.* Not in pristine condition, but no mods either, just some gardener’s work truck. I got a warm fuzzy from such an old truck still doing what it was designed for.
*Is there a good site that lets you compare side by side different model years of the same make? Google image is workable, but clunky.
Yeah. I saw a low rider Jeep CJ5 once. Dumbest thing ever.
Sometimes.
You can start with the basic model of Chevies… Of the 60-70’s trucks there were three basic types.
The “first generation”. 1961 shown. This ran from 60-66. Note the body crease and how it continues front to back, and if this was a fleetside it would run all the way back.
Then there is the “Action Line”, which ran from 67-72. You can tell the years (mostly) by the grille and marker lights.1969 shown:
Then there is the “square body”, which ran up through 1980. 1973 shown. It’s very square!:
The gardeners who used to maintain my neighbor’s lawn used a lowrider Chevy Silverado as their work truck. My initial gut reaction was the same as yours, but as I thought about it I started to realize how lowering could make it more useful to them. Modern pickups are so high off the ground even at their stock height, I imagine they can be kind of difficult to load. Lowering the truck likely makes it easier for them to load and unload their equipment. That probably wasn’t their intent, but still not a stupid as you might think.
I see plenty of other landscapers and gardeners driving around in F250s towing utility trailers loaded with lawn equipment, with the bed completely empty, probably because the bed is too high to easily get the equipment into. I’d say buying a pickup and then not actually utilizing the bed is at least equally stupid.
Wikipedia is usually my go to for that sort of thing. It doesn’t usually get me to an exact year, but usually I can figure out the generation of range of years from Wikipedia.
The “square body” actually ran all the way through 1987, albeit with some changes to the grille and lights.
It was a good vintage truck weekend on the streets of Mesa. I saw a 69 C10, a 53 Ford F1 and a cherry 51 Chevy in two tone white over butterscotch, totally stock.
Yep, that’s the body I saw.
And '60 & '61 were the only models to have the “eyebrows”, with '60 having slightly different indicators.
Why not? Does the word “abomination” carry no weight these days?
A Miata is my dream car (a stock one).
But lately I’ve been saying “When will I buy an electric car? As soon as there’s an e-Miata.”
Saw my first Porsche Taycan in the wild. Very sleek. Looks (and is) very expensive.
A 1972-3ish Corvette Stingray. It had the rear window set in from the C Pillar so later than 1971. It also had t-tops, neat, they sure went extinct. The really interesting thing was that dude was driving it around at 5:30pm in commuter traffic in February. It’s real salty out there right now.
Yabbut–the suspension action on those trucks is brutal, and lowering will make it it even worse.
Fiberglass body work.