Check this TV out

curtiscapk · 10-11-2021, 01:07 PM

Saw this in a Walmart parking lot in Fayetteville, AR where my daughter lives.

**flybouy** · 10-11-2021, 01:40 PM

I wonder how it affects the towing. That looks like a lot of money in wheels and I'm guessing vinyl wrap.

**chuckster57** · 10-11-2021, 01:43 PM

Some people have more money than sense. I will say it looks good!!

wiredgeorge · 10-11-2021, 01:53 PM

To one it may look "good" but to me it looks, well dumb. Truck is for hauling, towing; especially a dually and turning an expensive tool into a foo foo appears to be flushing mega bucks down the toilet but this is the good ol USA so to each his own.

**chuckster57** · 10-11-2021, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by wiredgeorge

To one it may look "good" but to me it looks, well dumb. Truck is for hauling, towing; especially a dually and turning an expensive tool into a foo foo appears to be flushing mega bucks down the toilet but this is the good ol USA so to each his own.

You should see some of the trucks around here

**sourdough** · 10-11-2021, 04:16 PM

Just went to spend a few days "out of town" to see some different scenery. We were in Carlsbad, NM. The oilfield and associated service businesses are just going crazy with traffic off the charts. Many of those vehicles are 1 ton duallies. Most have the flat work bed in the back with their welding equipment. Many of those guys love to "enhance" those trucks with big lifts, and my favorite.....the 18" megaphone exhaust sticking out that bumps the bottom of the bed and bounces off the pavement....

Like George it just seems like a good way to make a good truck look bad.

In the original picture did y'all check out that drrrooopppped hitch?? Looked like it might need a couple more bolts to keep it from shifting.....

mmoff46 · 10-13-2021, 07:04 AM

I see this truck all the time. It is part of a custom truck store and ill admit it looks good but not for hauling a 5th wheel.

curtiscapk · 10-13-2021, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by mmoff46

I see this truck all the time. It is part of a custom truck store and ill admit it looks good but not for hauling a 5th wheel.

Rudy,

Do you live in Fayetteville? My daughter goes to UofA taking her masters after graduating with a double from there.

We always stay at Hog Valley south of town.

travelin texans · 10-13-2021, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by mmoff46

I see this truck all the time. It is part of a custom truck store and ill admit it looks good but not for hauling a 5th wheel.

Honestly I wouldn't go so as to say it looks good!
Absolutely ridiculous totally useless waste of a truck & lots of $$ is how I'd describe it.

Scttw · 10-13-2021, 09:46 AM

If you can afford it - why not. Kicks ***!

**flybouy** · 10-13-2021, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Scttw

If you can afford it - why not. Kicks ***!

If you can afford it then that's your choice. I wouldn't choose to do that and I don't have to like it ar appreciate it and that's my choice. I'm not going to go tell they person that they are foolish for doing that but if they ask if I like it I'm not going to lie and tell them it looks great either. JMHO

Scttw · 10-13-2021, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by flybouy

If you can afford it then that's your choice. I wouldn't choose to do that and I don't have to like it ar appreciate it and that's my choice. I'm not going to go tell they person that they are foolish for doing that but if they ask if I like it I'm not going to lie and tell them it looks great either. JMHO

I agree completely! It would be a boring world if everyone loved and hated the exact same things in life!

Just like the kids who do up the compact cars. You don't have to like em, but maybe appreciate the work.

Falcon67 · 10-13-2021, 11:07 AM

I see those a lot in west Texas. I'm thinking they don't pull much of anything heavy. Maybe the farm trailer sometimes.

Scttw · 10-13-2021, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Falcon67

I see those a lot in west Texas. I'm thinking they don't pull much of anything heavy. Maybe the farm trailer sometimes.

Not against your 350

wiredgeorge · 10-13-2021, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by sourdough

Just went to spend a few days "out of town" to see some different scenery. We were in Carlsbad, NM. The oilfield and associated service businesses are just going crazy with traffic off the charts. Many of those vehicles are 1 ton duallies. Most have the flat work bed in the back with their welding equipment. Many of those guys love to "enhance" those trucks with big lifts, and my favorite.....the 18" megaphone exhaust sticking out that bumps the bottom of the bed and bounces off the pavement....

Like George it just seems like a good way to make a good truck look bad.

In the original picture did y'all check out that drrrooopppped hitch?? Looked like it might need a couple more bolts to keep it from shifting.....

Around my part of Texas you see most of the grocery getter 1/2 tons lifted with those stupid wheel offsets ensuring the sides of the beds on the trucks are full of stone chips/dents. I do especially hate the smoke stacks behind the cab. The trucks that use them seem to blow more black than trucks with a stock exhaust system. A pair of fuzzy dice is about as far as I go and I do have at least 3 seat covers on my bench seats; I am afraid to strip them off to look at the original seat as I suspect it ain't purdy. Guy I bought the truck from sold seat covers for a living and put good ones on but they are about shot. Maybe some saddle blanket type in my future.

mmoff46 · 10-14-2021, 05:45 AM

No I live about 50 miles from Fayetteville

Falcon67 · 10-14-2021, 08:46 AM

We are having the "Texas Diesel Madness" at the local drag strip this weekend. Friday night and most of the day Saturday will be a rolling coal stink show, plus gee-gaw truck show displays. And a dyno where they like to break things. Sometimes the dyno. We help the track with computer work, web, Facebook, winner's pictures, track pics, etc. So that's our RV destination for the weekend LOL. 15 miles from the house, hellofa tow.

jvbutter01 · 10-21-2021, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by wiredgeorge

To one it may look "good" but to me it looks, well dumb. Truck is for hauling, towing; especially a dually and turning an expensive tool into a foo foo appears to be flushing mega bucks down the toilet but this is the good ol USA so to each his own.

so true how it may look to you. Remember, just as in the 80;s when all the kids would get some mini truck and slamm to the ground. so impractical on a function point, but either way, it was the fad. I the above truck, is no doubly those same kids all grown up with money.

Cascadia · 10-21-2021, 07:32 AM

What a total waste of money and for what? Because yeah, we all need to have more of that crap pumped into the air we breathe. Our truck is a work truck...for hauling gear for my fella's business into remote mountain camps. I'd wait in the lot just to see if it's a short guy driving that thing! 😂

PDMarlowe · 10-21-2021, 07:38 AM

I do get a kick out of seeing these trucks too. Being in the auto industry all of my life I know what goes into designing trucks to be functional and safe. I see this, shake my head, and wonder why. Then I remember growing up in the 70s and doing the same thing with muscle cars. Jacking up the rear springs so we could put wider wheels and tires on them. Yep, it's the same thing 40 years later but trucks are the muscle cars of the new millennial.

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