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Congrats Tedy. Happy to hear you found an RV that's perfect for you and your wife to enjoy.

 

wasn't the older iron coil sprung?

 

60's early 70's I know GM's were coil. Can't say about pre 66 Fords but from 67 on they had rear leafs, Have no idea about that era of Dodge though

 

Those are some nice RV's. Amazing all the times I've camped I can't remember those kind. The one's like Tedy got were very popular and seem to be slowly coming back.
As for pick up trucks with 8' beds that look like a real truck, my son has an 85 Chevy 8' bed called a BIG10 that he loves. All his buddies tease him when they pull up in ther S-10's, Rangers, etc with a sandbox on the back.
Then they call my son and ask him to haul something!
90% of the new trucks sold are more luxury car than truck but that's because of all the softies who keep following the sheep!

I'm ashamed to say my Dodge has a 6'2" bed and was broke down eight months with 73,000 on the odometer. It rides like a car, looks like a car inside, and has cup holders!

 

The 1/2-ton GM trucks from '67 - '72 could be had with coils or leaf springs out back. The 3/4- and one-ton trucks were all leaf springs in the rear. All Fords from the late '40s to the 2000s have leafs on the rear. Trucks up through '63 had leafs up front, then you had the Twin-I Beam era for many, many years for the fronts. Full-sized Dodge/Fargo were all leafs front/rear through 1971, then the fronts went to coils from 1972 on to the 2000s. Rear springs went to coils in the mid-2000s.

I used the term "puny" as sarcasm...Figured that might be obvious, but maybe not. A whole lot of mid-'60s through late '80s trucks have hauled cabover campers. Have you seen a 3/4-ton late '60s truck parked next to a 2015 3/4-ton; or even a half-ton??? The later trucks with all their added crap are HUGE.

As for modern truck beds NOT being available as an 8' bed (I'm NOT including flatbeds!) - very FEW have an 8' bed, unless you have a standard cab, where you can still get an 8' bed. Most all of the extended and Crew Cab trucks do not have them - theirs are anywhere from a near-useless 5' bed to 7-1/2' bed. You DO see a few Crews with 8' beds, but those trucks are LONG and seldom seen.

We put many, many miles on a '69 Chevy C-20 Camper Special with an 8' WeekEnder cabover camper from '69 through about '78, when he sold it to my cousin in Califonia. Dad towed either a '69 Datsun 1200 pickup, a '76 Toyota SR5 pickup, or a '54 Willys CJ-3B 4x4 behind that Chevy. I loved that truck and the camper, too!

 

Trucks is trucks.

There are still a lot of real trucks here in central Florida. This is RV and horse/farm country. Many are duallies and 1 ton or larger with a real 8' bed.
Get in the big cities and you see the trucks like mine, those all decked out like Cowboy Cadillacs, mud trucks, and the jacked up red neck trucks.
Then there are the baby trucks and parking lot four wheel drive show trucks that never see dirt.

 

I seem to recall some TV ad for a pickup in the mid-'70s where they said "Eight-foot bed," and four pairs of feet were sitting on the side rail, sweeping back and forth....

 

I'm Curious where you live? I suppose it may be a geographical situation.
I live in an Agricultural community. There are many, many pick-up trucks.
Lots of them are shortbox trucks, but just as many are longbox (8 foot beds) at least half I would say. Some are standard cab, some are supercab and some are crewcab. In this area most are FORD, Chevy and Dodge. There are even the occasional Tayota and Nissan 8' box trucks.

 

Did someone say "truck"?
Here's mine, let's see yours!

 

You show me yours and I'll show you mine!

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Cha Cha Cha Chia

 

OK. I currently own 2. (both 8 foot box by the way) 1996 F-350 Powerstroke crew cab 4X4 and 1969 F-100.






Then there is my father-in-law's Ranchero, it's kind of a truck...

 

Orthmann's a show off!

I was showing my son your old truck posts. He said all it needs are the windows tinted! Yippy!

 

Oklahoma, home of the pickup truck. It's in my avatar, BTW, the part where it says "OK". VERY FEW of the newer trucks around here have eight-foot beds. And trucks here get worked, and worked hard.

I owned the identical twin to your '96 in every way.

 

I thought Texas had that claim? Of course that's like "the best pizza or best hotdog in the world". Depends where we are at the time.

I thought OK meant okay!