Thread: Truck opinions

Originally Posted by Jamesdean

I guess I'm just old fashioned. I like opening the hood and seeing the engine, not all the plastic covers and hoses run every where. I had a 67 chevy c10 with a 350 and could crawl in the engine compartment and close the hood all the way...lol. No emission nothing. 650 holley single pumper got me all the power we needed. Now if I could find one like that with a custom extended cab, or custom dual cab, I wouldn't need to worry about buying another truck ever...

me too....i open the hood on a new truck and don't even know what half of the stuff under there is.....mostly a lot of very expensive computerized stuff that has a high % chance that it will have to be replaced in under 100,000 mi. .......and a lot of stuff i don't need , i don't need a throttle-position sensor , i already have one , its at the end of my leg , its called my foot......another thing , i am betting there are many here that live out in the country , like i do ,,no matter how much poison you put out in the car-shed , there are going to be field-nice and rats ( even chipmunks ) that will crawl under your hood and chew the night away on all those plastic wires and doo-hickies , ....the less stuff under the hood that i have to fix , the better.......and i even put packs of rat-poison on the manifold.......on these new trucks , the manifold is under a layer of stuff the rats like to chew on...........