Rare HD Truck

I'll stick to a full width box. I usually get rwd or do not lift 4x's as that makes the.bed.lower, easier to get things in and out of, including myself.
Hence why Navistar is a lopro version. Along with one reason I like GM trucks, lower bed heights vs Dodge or Ford.
These of course are my preferences, not someone else's.

Marty

Somehow when I saw the title of this thread I expected to see a picture of a Ford Ranger with 8 Lug rims and E rated All Steel Duravis tires on it

blt2ski wrote:
Had a 155" wb reg cab with a 12' dump bed. Have a 188" wb with a 14' dump bed.....
Drive a reg cab c2500 with the std 8' bed. Would luv a 10' long bed!

Marty

From the '30s well into the '70s you could get factory 9' stepside beds.
They were and still are a good idea, they're much easier to load and unload, particularly if you're shoveling and//or sweeping!
Often, if you're loading something like lumber, the extra space around the wheelsells in a fleetside isn't useable anyway, and those big sturdy steps on a stepwise really made it easy to reach the front.
I carried my first camper on a '59 Chevy stepwise 3/4 ton. And I carried all sorts of other stuff with it.
Those long stepsides really did work great.

I've seen a few short bed reg cab dually Fords in the 6.0 PSD years.

Had a 155" wb reg cab with a 12' dump bed. Have a 188" wb with a 14' dump bed.....
Drive a reg cab c2500 with the std 8' bed. Would luv a 10' long bed!

Marty

I have a long bed extended cab that's pretty sexy.

that's still my favorite combo. the classic pick up truck. i still think that looks the best. regular cab, long bed. i had a few of that combo. good memories

Yeah I always do a double take when I see any full-size regular cab!

Back in the 70's my uncle had a Dodge crew cab long bed pickup. There were hardly any of them around, and it was the ugliest thing anyone had ever seen.

I too remeber when the standard cabs were the norm and you never saw a four door HD truck. I remember having a conversation with my FIL about it 30 years ago.
Your right, they're super rare now!