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05-12-2016, 02:27 PM
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#41
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Member
Trailer: 19 ft Escape
Posts: 72
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Well like Jim and most other people I'm happy with my truck and like all the apps it came with especially the bumper step. :-)
Cheers
Doug
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05-12-2016, 02:30 PM
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#42
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2004 13 ft Scamp Custom Deluxe
Posts: 8,531
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug P.
Well like Jim and most other people I'm happy with my truck and like all the apps it came with especially the bumper step. :-)
Cheers
Doug
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Step bumpers have been around since the second World War, hardly an "app"
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05-12-2016, 02:36 PM
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#43
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Member
Trailer: 19 ft Escape
Posts: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by floyd
Step bumpers have been around since the second World War II, hardly an "app"
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Never said step bumper,
I said bumper step, as in post #23
Sorry I wasn't around for the war, to young :-)
Cheers
Doug
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05-12-2016, 02:49 PM
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#44
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2004 13 ft Scamp Custom Deluxe
Posts: 8,531
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug P.
Never said step bumper,
I said bumper step, as in post #23
Sorry I wasn't around for the war, to young :-)
Cheers
Doug
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Same difference, still hardly an "app"
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05-12-2016, 03:23 PM
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#45
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Senior Member
Name: Jay
Trailer: Boler 1300
Ontario
Posts: 335
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I drive a 2004 GMC Canyon, bought it new. I love driving a truck but I couldn't justify the size of the "full size" models. The irony of the whole situation is that my "little" midsize pickup is almost as big as the full-size pickups I used to drive in the 80s & 90s.
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05-12-2016, 03:46 PM
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#46
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Member
Trailer: 19 ft Escape
Posts: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by floyd
Same difference, still hardly an "app" 
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OK
I'm bored, you win  
Cheers
Doug
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05-12-2016, 03:50 PM
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#47
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Moderator
Trailer: 2009 19 ft Escape / 2009 Honda Pilot
Posts: 6,283
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug P.
OK
I'm bored, you win  
Cheers
Doug
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Nobody wins, but you all get a ribbon for participation.
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2017 Escape 5.0 TA
2015 Ford F150 Lariat 3.5L EcoBoost
2009 Escape 19 (previous)
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
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05-12-2016, 04:55 PM
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#48
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1972 Boler American and 1979 Trillium 4500
Posts: 5,141
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon in AZ
When planners design parking lots according to what they think people ought to drive, rather than what people actually do drive...
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I have a dream ...
All those designers will be forced to drive around their parking lots upon their death until eternity.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Bennett
But I remember well pulling the light switch on and using the foot switch to change from high to low beam. Man, am I ever glad we have gone beyond that.
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Mom's 58 Benz had a bag on the inside under the dash connected to a push pull button for the window washer. That was luxury heated window washer fluid.
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05-12-2016, 05:18 PM
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#49
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2004 13 ft Scamp Custom Deluxe
Posts: 8,531
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug P.
OK
I'm bored, you win  
Cheers
Doug
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We make a great team... I'm "stroked" to win!  
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05-12-2016, 05:19 PM
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#50
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2004 13 ft Scamp Custom Deluxe
Posts: 8,531
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Bennett
Nobody wins, but you all get a ribbon for participation. 
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Another sign of the times!
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05-12-2016, 05:22 PM
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#51
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2004 13 ft Scamp Custom Deluxe
Posts: 8,531
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay H
I drive a 2004 GMC Canyon, bought it new. I love driving a truck but I couldn't justify the size of the "full size" models. The irony of the whole situation is that my "little" midsize pickup is almost as big as the full-size pickups I used to drive in the 80s & 90s.
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First gen Ranger had exactly the same cab size as a 1956 ford pickup and actually a bit larger box!
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05-12-2016, 05:27 PM
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#52
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1988 16 ft Scamp Deluxe
Posts: 25,811
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Quote:
Originally Posted by floyd
First gen Ranger had exactly the same cab size as a 1956 ford pickup and actually a bit larger box! 
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The only difference between the 1956 Ford pickup and the 1953-1955 (slant cabs!) are the window areas and ugly dash... oh and that 1956 has a flat, flat roofline and causes the rain drip rail to rust out. But the beds are exactly the same on all four years. Anything else you'd like to know about the first generation F-100s... just ask! Henry's Half-Tons Ltd.
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Donna D.
Ten Forward - 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Double Yolk - 1988 16' Scamp Deluxe
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05-12-2016, 05:51 PM
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#53
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2004 13 ft Scamp Custom Deluxe
Posts: 8,531
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Donna D.
The only difference between the 1956 Ford pickup and the 1953-1955 (slant cabs!) are the window areas and ugly dash... oh and that 1956 has a flat, flat roofline and causes the rain drip rail to rust out. But the beds are exactly the same on all four years. Anything else you'd like to know about the first generation F-100s... just ask! Henry's Half-Tons Ltd.
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I took a first generation Ranger and cut the cab off at the windshield, removed the doors and cut the back of the cab about a foot off the floor. I then took a 1956 Ford pickup and cut out the floor and the dash. Excellent fit onto the Ranger!
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05-12-2016, 06:12 PM
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#54
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1988 16 ft Scamp Deluxe
Posts: 25,811
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Quote:
Originally Posted by floyd
I took a first generation Ranger and cut the cab off at the windshield, removed the doors and cut the back of the cab about a foot off the floor. I then took a 1956 Ford pickup and cut out the floor and the dash. Excellent fit onto the Ranger! 
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Oooh cool! Pictures? I wanna see!!
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Donna D.
Ten Forward - 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Double Yolk - 1988 16' Scamp Deluxe
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05-12-2016, 06:57 PM
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#55
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Senior Member
Name: alan
Trailer: looking
Colorado
Posts: 264
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Four pages and no complaints about "the connected car"??
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05-12-2016, 07:40 PM
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#56
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Senior Member
Name: Jon
Trailer: 2008 Scamp 13 S1
Arizona
Posts: 12,302
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Quote:
Originally Posted by minke
Four pages and no complaints about "the connected car"??
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See post #10.
As for myself, I have no issues with a connected car. Especially when it's connected to my Scamp.
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05-12-2016, 08:22 PM
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#57
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Senior Member
Name: Z
Trailer: Sasquatch
Montana
Posts: 2,571
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The truck we drive for work is a Chevy 3500 crew cab HD. We all hate it. It's ridiculously tall, but yet somehow has very little clearance. Nobody can reach in, or hardly see into the bed. You can't see where any the truck starts or ends, from the driver seat.
It's made me notice, even more, all the gigantic trucks on the road. Most of them seemingly for nothing more than ego. I lived in ranch areas and I've seen where big trucks come in handy. But even they don't need the size truck I'm seeing out there these days. And I'm seeing them driven as "commuters", at the grocery store etc.
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05-12-2016, 09:18 PM
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#58
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Senior Member
Name: alan
Trailer: looking
Colorado
Posts: 264
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Trucks sure create bizarre reactions. There is a six lane section of interstate that runs thru town and has a speed limit of 65 MPH. When I drove my 4Runner at 55 in the right hand lane I got lots of fingers and raised fists. Two passing lanes just aren't enough.
In 2012 we got rid of the perfectly fine 4Runner with 320,000 miles on it and got an F-250 to tow about 8,000 pounds of boat, trailer, and junk. I still drive the same section of interstate at 55 and I see few indications of anger. Suddenly two passing lanes are enough.
I view myself as an environmentalist. My spouse and I are retired and only need one vehicle. Does anyone really think we should buy a Prius to go to the grocery store? Building another vehicle (and buying it) has an immense carbon footprint, great cost, insurance,,, and will sit around idle for months at a time when we are gone. The carbon footprint of my fuel consumption ain't so hot either. I get ~14MPG around town, >17 on the road and 9 to 11 towing.
Wildly exaggerating what I read on airforums.com, there are folks who wish to tow their 34 foot Airstream with a Smartcar and are sure that if only they could find the perfect hitch they could do it safely. Perhaps they don't drive up mountains like I do. Perhaps they don't drive down mountains like I do and somehow don't really need brakes. I don't know their context and absent my exaggerations they may really make sense. Similarly I don't see how a thinking person can see someone driving a 1 ton truck and buying a loaf of bread as ether evil or as a manifestation of poor judgment.
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05-12-2016, 09:56 PM
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#59
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Senior Member
Trailer: 92 16 ft Scamp
Posts: 11,756
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Quote:
Originally Posted by minke
Wildly exaggerating what I read on airforums.com, there are folks who wish to tow their 34 foot Airstream with a Smartcar and are sure that if only they could find the perfect hitch they could do it safely. Perhaps they don't drive up mountains like I do. Perhaps they don't drive down mountains like I do and somehow don't really need brakes. .
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Alan, you have not been here long but trust me we have the same folks here! Seen some pretty scary photos of combinations posted over the years. Favourites are the 16' & 17' trailers attached to a vehicle with zero tow rating and no brakes connected on the trailer.
If I am not mistaken a few years back we even had a poster with a 16' Scamp attached to an all electric vehicle with a zero tow rating as well.
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05-12-2016, 09:59 PM
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#60
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Senior Member
Trailer: No Trailer Yet (want 13 ft fiber glass
Posts: 2,316
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Alan, here is some food for thought, we have a 1/2 ton GMC pickup truck and a Prius. Having the right tool for the job is important. You wouldn't have to have another vehicle built, as there are plenty of very good used ones out there, and 52 mpg helps offset the 5 months of poor milage.
Dave & Paula
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