TRUCKS TRUCKS AND MORE TRUCKS...

The American Pickup.

Now, before I start this I'm talking about full size trucks.

Not the Chevy El Comino

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Or the ford Ranchero.

Or Pontiac's bombshell the G8 ST.

I'll get to these classics on another post.

I'm strictly talking about the Chevy Silverado 1500.

The Ford F150.

And the Ram 1500. (Yeah they separated from Dodge, now they are their own brand.)

The original American trio.

Now for the whole start of the pickup truck we can give the award to Mr. Henry Ford.

The founder of Ford Motor Company and the inventor of the assembly line.

Because of this invention he could mass produce cars at a good accelerated rate plus offering them at a more reasonable price.

But, that's a story for another post.

Lets get into his invention.

The Ford Model-T.

This vehicle debuted in 1925.

It was a simple design. 

And when i say simple, it was basically it had a cab, a bed,four wheels a steering wheel, transmission, and motor.

Of course it had breaks and headlights.

But lets remember it didn't have the luxury that we take advantage of that we have today.

No heat, no a/c.

Sounds just miserable.

But, unlike today, people were tough. 

But, as time went on improvements were made.

Competition started to stack up.

 Hudson, Dodge and Chevy started arising from the mists. 

As the years went by the automotive companies started making adjustments to their vehicles.

We started getting past the straight 6 motors and off the carbanation and into fuel injections and other many differnt types and designed of fuel injections in the late 1980's.