Long Box Pick up trucks.
For the first time in 30 yrs I need a long box pickup. Where the heck do you park these trucks? Every parking lot parking spot I have seen in the last few days is too short for a long box pickup t...
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transamz9 wrote:
I believe that's what he's saying. The current cc lb is not that much bigger than your qc lb but it is quite a bit bigger than a cc SB. Something else to think about also is that your vintage truck's (3rd gen) steering is different and I believe turns sharper and responds quicker (don't have proof just my feeling) than the 4th gen trucks. I have an 05 qc sb and my 13 was a cc sb and the 05 is more responsive and easier to put in tight places. They both fit in the same space. The 05 is just easier to put it in. I had a Nissan Frontier Nizmo that would alway have to do a back up to make it into a spot that my 05 would make first shot.
New long bed is 259.3, his 2000 QC long box is 244.1" or 15.2" shorter than a new long bed. At 244.1 his QC LB is longer than my CC SB by 7".
Remember I came from a Std Cab 8' bed 2001.5 that was 224.1" long, so the new RAM is over a foot longer. The 2001.5 was MUSH more nimble in parking lots, and had a LOT less hood out front. With the engine mods it was much quicker that the new RAM. Would I go back? NO! To many creature comforts in the new one. This ease for towing is night and day difference.
If I was moving to a dually, it would most likely be a Mega Cab short box at 248" long.
Our snowbird park has quite a mix between short and long box TVs.
Somehow all the large 5th wheels show up every year behind SB trucks, with many being 250/2500(more GM 2500's doing that than RAMs and Fords).
