Some neat old literature

[restoman]

Agreed.

But I think what 69.5 was getting at is that we can no longer buy a small or midsize truck new....
.....All the manufacturers are building these days are gigantic monstrosities....

.... That are still only designed to last 7 or 9 years....

 

[69.5CUDA]

that they may be..but the 80s toyotas were built to last....and are still beat on to this day

i think the smallest SUV/truck on the general market is the jeep's isnt it?..everything else is ginormous by comparison

 

[Not A Duster]

Google something called the "chicken tax" if you want a better understanding of why there are no small trucks available in North America.

 

[69.5CUDA]

true and stupid enuf..but..all the companys found ways around it by building here....which still begs the question..america why you so stupid for everything small?

 

[68R/T]

.....All the manufacturers are building these days are gigantic monstrosities....

I think the mentality of most new buyers is vanity. Everyone just has to have a status symbol;

dictionary.reference.com/browse/phallic-symbol

Dictionary.com


noun, Psychoanalysis. 1. any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power,as an automobile.

:huh:

 

[Stretch]

I don't fit in most vehicles. Keep building them big!

 

[Not A Duster]

I don't fit in most vehicles. Keep building them big!

That's fine, unless you operate a business that puts on as many miles as ours done. We need to get better fuel mileage than these monsters get.

It's why we keep limping by in our shitty old Astro - van. It offers a reasonable compromise between cargo/towing capacity and fuel economy that no current truck or van does. It's also small enough that I'm not forced to climb 4 feet into it every time I need a tool or part, which would affect job site productivity. Eventually the Astro will cost more in repairs than what we save in fuel costs, then we will be screwed with nothing to replace it with.

Fact is, there is less profit for car makers in small cars, so if they don't have to compete with smaller trucks from foreign competitors, (there are plenty of 'em made world-wide, but the chicken tax makes it illogical to market them in the US) there is little incentive to build them.

 

[Not A Duster]

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[Jester]

Love the old literature... Pretty sure this Labbatt's truck was at Expo '86. I had a toy replica of it that they were giving away there, but I could be wrong, since Expo was 30 years ago and Jester was 6-7 during it.

 

[Jester]

Found it with a quick google search, along with the concrete highway I spent hours playing on

Holy crap, memories...

 

[69.5CUDA]

got more?..that hwy is cool as hell..a shame we dont have expo's any more

all those pretty work horses of the days gone by..a lovely thing

 

[Not A Duster]

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[Not A Duster]

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[Jester]

got more?..that hwy is cool as hell..a shame we dont have expo's any more

I have quite a few, but don't want to usurp Nodda's thread. He has a collection of way cooler stuff. I'll gather what I have and make an Expo thread one of these days. My childhood memories center largely around Expo. Expo '86 felt like an endless Summer of magical discovery.

 

[Not A Duster]

I have quite a few, but don't want to usurp Nodda's thread. He has a collection of way cooler stuff. I'll gather what I have and make an Expo thread one of these days. My childhood memories center largely around Expo. Expo '86 felt like an endless Summer of magical discovery.

Not my thread - I didn't start it, and if anything I have pushed it off the original topic.

Post away.

 

[Stretch]

Wow those are some cool trucks and buses! Love this thread!

 

[Not A Duster]

Wow those are some cool trucks and buses! Love this thread!

Those came to me in a recent email from a friend. This seemed an appropriate place to share them.