<VV> Tailgate Height (was: loadside trucks)

[shortle]

So it sounds like the agreement is the early Rampside is better than the early Loadside? Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301


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>Sent: Aug 22, 2011 8:42 PM
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>Subject: <VV> Tailgate Height (was: loadside trucks)
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>At 09:49 PM 8/22/2011, J R Read wrote:
>
>>They DO have a tailgate - just awfully high above the ground.
>
>The height of the tailgate is a long-standing complaint about the 
>Corvair pickups, and one of the reasons that when new they did not 
>sell as well as they might.
>
>But today, it's hooey.  Why?  Because all modern trucks have 
>tailgates that are much higher off the ground!  The tailgate on my 
>Rampside is closer to the ground than the tailgate on my 2004 GMC 
>Sierra 1500, and the GMC is one of the "lower" of the late-model 
>trucks.  Take a look at the new trucks from GM, Ford, and Dodge 
>(whose dumb idea was it to rebrand them "Ram?")  They ALL have 
>tailgates much higher off the ground than a Corvair pickup, and 
>bedsides far more difficult to reach over than the side of a Loadside.
>
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