[RipSawyer]

still see Ford and Chevys from the 70’s and 80’s on the road today.

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I occasionally see a Ford F-1 from the early fifties still on the road. My father bought a 51 model new and had no trouble with it for six years and then someone drove a huge Buick into it at an intersection and destroyed it. I think one of those things would last forever if you took proper care of it. He used to drive it all over the fields on the farm and routinely haul two to four times the rated payload.
I had an uncle who lived next door who owned a 49 model of the same truck and it too seemed indestructible. He died in 59 and the truck was sold and I saw it occasionaly for many years afterward, That truck had been used for hauling everything from firewood to 2000 pound cattle. The old flathead V-8 was still strong after ten years of hard use.

[normy]

I went to a funeral the other day in Mason Texas, a tiny ranching town in the Texas Hill Country. There were a couple hundred people there and at the cemetery I noted to my wife (she hit a deer in our Tahoe and we were driving her sisters tiny Nissan) how many Chevys were there. Must have been 80% Chevys and 15% Fords and the rest misc. That told me that these ranchers know a good work truck when they drive one.