Posted on 11/07/2017 2:28:56 AM PST by jjotto
There is nothing like a truck, and there is nothing like a Ford. Although I had to leave my F150 in the USA, I brought a full kit E350XL overseas with me.
The roads here are terrible but the super strong frame on the E350 along with the clearance and the V8 get me through just about anything.
And everybody wants my E350 when I leave.
On another note, Toyota’s Hilux is the vehicle of choice for terrorists, muj and Taliban from all over.
We call them “tacticals” and there is nothing like watching a Toyota Hilux tool across the plain with a .50 cal Dishka mounted in the bed trying to fire and hit targets.
Rat Patrol!
Not at six bucks a gallon, no thank you.
They used to be called "technicals."
Also older trucks in good shape,
Sold a 1968 Dodge pick up to a guy that was exporting trucks to Switzerland.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
As in my mind is getting old. The term was “technicals”, I just hadn’t thought about them in ten years and did not remember.
Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa
I remember when there was Rat Patrol collector cards. You can see all the old episodes on YouTube
yuck I hate pickups and I hate being behind pickups and I hate the way the drivers tool along at 50 and I hate how much gas they use
Rat Patrol lunchbox. Imagine if your child took one of these to school in today’s world!
Not many (any?0 mid sized pickups in the US market, though. You can’t get a Hilux, an Amarok, a Ranger here.
I just looked, Ford will have a 2019 Ranger.
I always thought The Rat Patrol was nuts to take on tanks with just MGs on Jeeps.
And the same thing that killed off the station wagon (another handy vehicle) government regulations.
Yesterday I bought a load of books and really wished I had brought the pick-em up before it was over. Driving one of those "smart" roller skates would have required at least four trips.
My super cab f150 is bigger than most vehicles on the road. It has all the bells and whistles they do. It pulls my pontoon boat, my trailer, it helped my son move last week, it carries hay and straw and mulch, it holds 6 people, and it will probably get 300k miles on it before it dies.
Uses a lot of gas if 18 mpg is bad, but that’s cheap considering how useful it is.
This would seem to be a luxury market in Europe. Those who actually have to fear high fuel prices shouldn’t be in the luxury market.
I spent the weekend moving the spouse’s vast book collection to the new pad we’re moving into soon.
4 5x8 or so trailer loads of boxes of backbreaking books.
Without the trailer, I hate to think how many runs in the Tacoma that would be.
Books are held in the same light as printers, phones,fax machines, lotus notes, state fairs, sports in general, and liberals.
In the original Top Gear show they tried everything short of a crusher to stop a Hilux from running. It kept starting and driving. Props to Toyota, tough little truck.
That which is written in those books cannot be altered for political reasons.
Yea - just wait until start driving around with gun rack and confederate flag .......
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