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Anybody heard about these? https://reotrucks.com/Looking forward to what they can pull off, but, they have big dreams and goals. Best, Ted My interest is piqued. If the U.A.W. is involved in any way I’m out. ______________________________ Can’t stand those clowns.
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Anybody heard about these? https://reotrucks.com/Looking forward to what they can pull off, but, they have big dreams and goals. Best, Ted My interest is piqued. If the U.A.W. is involved in any way I’m out. ______________________________ Can’t stand those clowns. Funny, I never pictured you as a pickup truck ‘kinda guy. Prius kind of guy, I was thinking. Best, Ted ___________________________________________________________ With a Cub.
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The trouble with newer trucks is it's harder to find used ones with straight shift transmissions. If you are in the woods and the battery/alternator (does anybody remember generators?) or starter gives out, you can roll it off to start it. This is why I still park on a hill, in the woods, in spite of having an automatic now. Also, you can keep it in one gear to ease out of the mud without the truck changing gears on it's on. I had a 74 F100 w/3speed on the column while on temporary duty in Savannah and it got stuck in second gear because of wear in the "shifter". I was able to drive all the way from Savannah Ga. to Columbus Ga. in second gear. I did have to run two stop signs (going uphill) but could see far enough to avoid oncoming traffic. On the other hand, II do enjoy quick starting fuel injection.
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Another vehicle that I have long been toying with the thought of up here are the little "Kei" trucks imported from Japan.
Extremely small and essentially powered by motorcycle engines, they would be (& are) perfect for general agricultural uses (which they dominate in the rest of the world). Extremely fuel-efficient, 4x4, with heat, AC, and even windshield wipers they are far-superior to the mostly-silly ORVs you see being built here these days. They have been kept out of this country by very serious lobbying (because they threaten the truck "rice bowl" of the American automakers) but they are slowly making inroads here.
For hunting vehicles I'd guess that they'd be almost unbeatable. From what I understand, they are dirt cheap and very easy to keep.
If I didn't already have so-many old 4x4 vehicles up here...
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Anybody heard about these? https://reotrucks.com/Looking forward to what they can pull off, but, they have big dreams and goals. Best, Ted My interest is piqued. If the U.A.W. is involved in any way I’m out. ______________________________ Can’t stand those clowns. I was thinking. Well, that’s the problem, Ted. Anybody heard about these? https://reotrucks.com/Looking forward to what they can pull off, but, they have big dreams and goals. Best, Ted My interest is piqued. If the U.A.W. is involved in any way I’m out. ______________________________ Can’t stand those clowns. Funny, I never pictured you as a pickup truck ‘kinda guy. Prius kind of guy... Picture me any way you care to, Ted, but I have you pegged as an Oldsmobile driving union dork wasting the youth of his old age dragging his arse to that shyte paper huckin’ job raising a non hacking, boot camp failing kid. I can almost hear him crying “But I lettered in trap!” as they booted him out the door. ________________________________________ BTW nobody volunteers for anything in boot camp unless you’re a moron. The correct term is voluntold.
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