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Originally Posted by special-K
Yeah, it's called bobbed and before all these guys came along looking at trucks purely for style like cars, you'd see real truck guys do this to improve towing capability. You'd see pickup-based tow wagons and hitch tow rigs. Ford built a bobbed (actually extended WB) F350 Camper Special pickup in the late-70s. Your 8-lugger is perfect for this. A SWB 3/4t is a dumb way to ruin a good truck. It's one of those, "If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand" type of thing. In the end, it's your truck. Build it to suit your needs. The others came do what they like to theirs.
How is this possible w/o shortening the wheelbase?
This is a handsome truck/ This is how the newer trucks are made to help get the GVWs they now claim:
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This looks OK, to me. I'd never do it, because I want at least an 8 foot bed for hauling things. I like my longhorn better, because I can get the door on the camper shell closed easily when I'm hauling 8 foot sheet goods and tubafors. I'd actually like to have a 1T (stepside) pickup for the 9 foot bed. I'd have to lose one of my newer vehicles to do that, though. Maybe I'll have to settle for renting a big pickup on occasion. When we rebuilt the wall at the front of our property, we rented a truck for the pallet of cap blocks. We had the rest delivered. It was 4 pallets of materials, and I sure wasn't loading them one at a time in the truck, taking them and unloading them, over and over. That wall almost did my back in. At 66 years of age, I now have to hire out the strong backs that I no longer have.