6/15/2023 0 Comments Dodge box truck![]() ![]() It’s worth noting that no small/midsize pickup currently available for sale in the U.S. But, of those, only Ford and Ram offer still offer their regular cabs with a short bed.įurthermore, Ram, which redesigned its pickup for 2019, only offers the regular-cab short-bed combo on the Ram Classic, which is the previous-generation Ram being sold alongside the new truck in Ram showrooms. The 1948 Ford F-1 came with a 6.5-foot cargo box that’s about the same length as the short-bed boxes still available on new regular-cab large pickups.įor 2019, every one of the six brands that sells a full-size pickup except Toyota offers a regular-cab variant. What I didn’t realize was how close to extinct the regular-cab short-bed pickup really is. Further, and I don’t have numbers for this, it seems that most of those trucks came equipped with a long (roughly 8-foot) cargo bed. I did a little poking around and discovered that it was roughly five years ago that regular-cab production slipped to less than ten percent of total large-pickup output. I’ve seen this particular truck again a couple of times since that day-its driver and I seem to share commuting routes-but haven’t seen another regular-cab short-bed truck during that time. It took me a moment to realize that the pickup that had caught my attention was a regular-cab truck with a short bed–something I literally never see anymore. The late-model Ram was normal enough, except for one thing: its tidy, pugilistic stance. I mention the Seven Up bar because, had my friend not reminded me of it, I would never have recalled it on my own.Īnd so it was on a recent commute, when I spotted a pickup truck that seemed completely incongruous on Chicagoland roads. Hygiene was not a priority in those days. Never mind that many hands handled each piece of chocolate before it was ultimately consumed. I wasn’t much of a mint guy, so I could swap that piece of my Seven Up bar for someone else’s coconut chunk, a thing which made me very happy. As the name implied, they had seven sections, each injected with a different filling, and those sections were easy to break off into separate pieces. ![]() Seven Up bars were popular in my neighborhood when I was growing up. Briefly popular, the Seven Up candy bar has been all but forgotten. ![]()
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