What has been missing from trucks nowadays???

alright I will admit this is for us old farts lurking around these pages

What feature do you miss from trucks from decades past??
for me I think I miss the old metal bed instead of the composite bed.
not sure about the wing window- too easy to break into but nice to get the right amount of wind.
I did have a bee fly in that window and sting me right in the chest- yeah that felt good and freeked out about maybe having a allergy reaction

 

Work trims. 2WD trucks with easy to step in boxes.



I loved this POS during my renos and move.

 

Bench seats.
Short cabs.
Manual transmissions on BASE models.
Rubberized floors.

 

3 on the tree with bench seats!

 

V8 with a carb and no computers.

 

X2 rubberized floors and wing windows.

 

To much electronics
Bigger metal bed
Rubberized floor !
Manual transmission
Dual gas tanks

 

I’m not old, but worked on enough older stuff to play along.

How about:

Steel dashboards
Door panels that had screws as fasteners
Solid steel bumpers
V8’s

 

Locking hubs and a manual transfer case.

 

Not a damn thing. They were noisy, load exhaust, gas fumes , carbs leak , no AC or bad AC, bad roads messed up alignment, you name it!.

 

This definitely speaks to me. I've owned 2 midsize trucks (this and my POS Colorado). Both were regular cab, 6 foot bed, bench seat. Nothing fancy but did all I needed.

 

Shorter wheelbases.

 

I miss the prices

 

I've been driving trucks for 50 years. About the only thing I preferred on older trucks was the rubber floors instead of carpet. Both of my current trucks have pan style rubber floor mats that completely cover the carpet anyway. Most of those things weren't really better. I had more problems with locking hubs and manual transfer cases than with my current trucks.

Everything else is just better on newer trucks although there are many options I'd just as soon leave off. I haven't figured out why anyone would want heated seats. I can live without remote start. Manually adjusting the seats is fine with me, I don't need an electric motor to do it.

But I can still buy a new truck equipped pretty much how I want it. Other than the rubber floor.

 

I miss when the phrase lifestyle adventure vehicle was not in the communal lexicon.

I miss when seeing a pickup being valet parked was as alien a concept as seeing a cement mixer being valet parked.

 

Imo good looks/design language

 

this reminds me-- apparently the new bronco has exposed fasteners as part of it's interior trim-- some of the designers doing the product reveal talked about how difficult it was to get that design aspect approved for production...

 

Those of us with old (real ) Broncos struggle with those exposed fasteners not grabbing worth a damn after 25+++ years.

 

Rubber cab floor mat (hose out capable), steel bed and tough tailgate, stake pockets (for a pig fence), less electronic doo-dads and emission crap...... real steel front bumper (instead of the plastic crap on the front of my 2014) with rugged mounts.

 

Fist sized rust rot in the rocker panels and floor boards.

It ain't a real truck unless you can spit your sunflower seeds onto the road without having to roll down the windows.