ScarFace88
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So did 10 year old me.
It's more the fact that Avalanche and Ridgeline are shit trucks, if you need a truck get a truck if you need SUV get that. Don't get something that sucks at both.
Saw one of the most idiotic things the other day. A Chevy Avalanche with a camper shell.
The 4-door bronco was more Chevy Suburban than Avalanche.
You could easily put my truck on that list as well. What the hell can someone do with a 5' bed? It's basically a Pathfinder/Xterra with the back part lopped off and a small bed fitted.
I actually spent some time around an Avalanche once. A guy I worked with had a 2500 model with a 8.1 big block. It was very neat that it had a built in retractable tonneau cover, lots of little bins to store things in, etc. He still has the truck, but he said that the hinge for the rear seats was rusted and leaking and a host of other small problems. It's a GM truck after all.
As far as the Ridgeline, never been around one, but a racer used to tow his Mustang and his kid's junior dragster in with his. Said it pulled just fine.
I been in Ridgeline, it's fine inside but obviously I wasn't putting shit in the back.
I don't know maybe it's just the look of it but I always thought that Avalanche looked retarded, it's a 4 door SUV with the "SUV" part converted into a small bed. Reminds me a lot of the Subaru Baja minus the Subaru quirkiness that gives it a pass.
One of the two stupid ones, you mean.
Although...that non-removable tauneau on the Lincoln does probably take the cake.
So did 10 year old me.
The Avalanche bed is actually longer than mine - 5.3 feet. That's only a little shorter than the standard crew cab short bed of 5.5 feet.
No, this was the stupid one out of the alternate truck styles of that era:
One of the two stupid ones, you mean.
Although...that non-removable tauneau on the Lincoln does probably take the cake.
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Pretty much this. Also, at the time the Sport-Trac's bed wasn't really all that much smaller (50.4 inches) than what you got in, say, the contemporary crew cab Frontier (56.3) or Tacoma (61.5) short beds. You couldn't get a full plywood panel or full-size motorcycle into the back of any of them without lowering the tailgate or leaving part of it outside the bed and all either had that tubular bed extender from the factory or as an extra cost option.
They all still have bigger beds behind their rear seats than I do (36 inches).
You can barely get a plywood panel in trucks now. My brother has an '01 Silverado and he picked up drywall recently. You're wedging the 4X8 sheets between the wheel humps so tight that you're damaging the edges. What's the point? if a truck bed is as the bed is 4 and a little bit feet in width, it should be fine but, in my experience, they're exactly 4' if not a little tiny bit smaller.