Godzilla Trucks 🧌

For calls their big gasser engine in their 3/4 ton pickups the Godzilla engine. Am I seriously considering getting another big truck? One bigger then I already have? Probably not but I can’t help but keep eyeing the Big Red regular cab long bed F-250 one of the developers regularly has parked out at the Colonie Town Hall. Truth is I kind of want a simple but big, reliable, old fashioned kind of work truck with an eight foot bed for lots of room for camping.

The Toyota Taco trucks are fine and you can get them with a six foot bed. They would be much better on the gas, driving in traffic and in the city and narrow off road trails. But I worry with all my camping gear – especially week long trips it would be difficult to fit all that crap in. And I don’t love all that technology crap and the big TV screens cars now have and you need to go through a menu to turn on the defroster. Seems like more crap to break, plus all that emissions and unreliable fuel economy crap like displacement on demand. The big trucks are exempt from that crap and tend to be over built and better suited to take a beating on the rough roads I like to explore. But the Toyotas are legendary for reliability – though they’ve been forced to adopt a lot of that government crap now.

The thing is that I know it’s only a matter of time before I have to commute again and if I move back out to the country then I’ll need something that won’t kill me with the gas bills. I don’t necessarily want to mess with the suspension of my next truck but I do like riding up high. And I’m not sure I want another half ton truck – they’re fine but their big but hardly heavy and though like a 3/4 ton. If anything the half ton trucks have gotten even more suburban – lower to the ground, lightweight components, softer seats and technology crap. Stuff I don’t really care about or want.

It costs nothing to look, dream and think. Red is good for now but it’s so obvious in my mind that he is going to need to be replaced sooner than later even if I do dump a lot of money to stretch out his remaining days.