Long bed vs. Regular Bed

cbshoestring wrote:




Problem is all these four doors with short beds, have just about done away with 8' beds, so now they are considered LONG. Four door trucks have replaced the SUBURBAN as the family car. Soccer mom might want to stop on the way home from soccer practice and buy a bag of mulch or two---"I need a truck"---she needs the four doors for junior, sally & fido, but not the 8' bed.

Just because they convinced you that a 6.5 bed is "regular" does not make it so. A regular truck bed should be able to hold a 4x8 sheet of WHATEVER, between the wheel wells with the tail gate closed. Anything less is a short bed.

Then again...no one every asks me before they change the "norms".

I remember when most trucks had 2 doors and an 8' bed. Four door trucks (used mostly by work crews)were not that common on dealer lots, unless they sold commercial trucks.

I played hell to find a 2 door, 8' bed (RAM calls it long). Ended up with a stripped down "tradesmen" model.

Yeah, I remember that too----when trucks were cheap, stripped down, tools for WORKING.