The baby blue Volvo we posed earlier today was a bit of a wreck, so I think we need to redeem robin’s egg blue cars with something equally vintage, but in nicer shape. The Ford Courier was a compact pickup truck that was produced from 1952 to 1982, and this 1980 model is a prime […]
If you want to go fast, a large pickup truck isn’t the best choice. Handling is usually horrible, lack of weight over the rear axle means you have limited grip, and a heavy duty frame means heavy duty curb weight. However, if you don’t care about going fast and you just prefer to spin your […]
Yowza, that’s all the money PLUS some for an 80s Nissan Pickup. The 720 Truck was produced for the USA market from 1980 through 1986 and most have been driven into the ground…but this thing is clean. But is it clean enough to warrant a price you’d have paid for a real classic car a […]
Modern trucks are too darn nice. Leather massaging seats, automatic self canceling blinkers, navigation, quad-cab, and 13-speed slushboxes have made trucks measurably better, but less of an experience. What you need in a truck is a big 6-cylinder engine, vinyl bench seat, and some row-your-own gears. That’s about it. Everything else is just something to […]
Oh man, this seems like a lot of money for an 80s Dodge pickup truck..and who am I to judge the price of used vehicles…wait…I’m EXACTLY the person to judge the price of 80s junkers and yell from the treetops “DON’T OVERPAY FOR NOSTALGIA”. But I will admit one thing, this isn’t the truck with […]
This Ford F-100 is described by the builder as a “community-inspired ranch truck, ready to pull any horse trailer in style.” It has a custom patina gloss paint job and set of bull horns in the front for the ultimate in cowboy style. Find this 1969 Ford F-100 bidding for $10,100 in Los Angeles, CA […]
The Datsun 520/521 pickup was built from 1965 through 1972, right in the middle of the biggest explosion in performance and horsepower in the US market. But Nissan didn’t care, they were building a simple car for simple people and it was powered by a 1.3 to 1.6 liter J-series inline4 that made about as […]
This next truck comes as a tip from David in Tampa who writes: Feast your eyes on this distraction from a possible WWIII, a blast from the year Miles Davis released Kind of Blue and the Mercury 7 were announced. Probe a bit deeper and you’ll find the greasy bits from the era of Drake […]
The Ridgeline is a mid-sized truck from Honda that did not sell as well as the competition such as Toyota’s ever popular Tacoma, or Ford’s Ranger, Chevy’s Colorado, or Nissan’s Frontier. It was however, universally loved by its owners who swear that the combination of fully independent suspension, all-wheel-drive, and Honda’s excellent J35 V6 make […]
This next car comes as a tip from David in Tampa who writes: I miss the unadorned simple honesty of this kind of truck. It’s like a child’s sketch of a truck, the truckiest of trucks that ever trucked a truck. Honestly, you’d have to have rocks in your head to shell out for whatever […]