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Originally Posted by vince1
My truck had a 3.73 which was totally too slow IMO. Astro vans that I had I think were around 3.46 or close to it and they had overdrive transmissions. My truck now has 3.07 gears and I wouldn't want it to be any slower than that, with the 1 to 1 transmission.
The roads must have been so much worse way back when these trucks were new or perhaps they spent most of their life on a farm.
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Pickups back then were not used for purposes anything close to how they are used now, or even in the last 40 years.
Back then they were mostly work oriented. The gear ratio reflected this, and until 1967, a 327 was the largest engine available in a pickup. The 396 became available in 1968, I have one.
The smaller engines needed the gearing to perform the work needed. There wasn’t anyone running up and down the roads, back then, like today, cruise’n in their Cowboy Cadillac....
