The split was explained early in my life: The car was for family trips and the truck was for work. That was that…if you didn’t need to haul anything around or didn’t need to tow something, you did not break out the truck. You didn’t order one that was better equipped than a Cadillac and you didn’t go out of your way to turn something with a bed into a world-class ass kicker that could go brawling with the best of them on some quiet industrial backroad, let alone at the actual drag strip. The truck was a took, not a toy.
Yeah…that all was complete nonsense. We can point out some of the baddest trucks at a drop of the hand: the Open Container K5 Blazer, “The LUV”, Larry Larson’s S-10 and the Blazer that pulled the vertical wheelstand at LS Fest a couple of years back immediately come to mind, and that doesn’t count psychos like the Willys trucks that show up in gasser class racing or some of the absolute freight trains that play in the diesel events that make power figures that are difficult to wrap your head around. The truck is only good for work, huh? Putting in some work, maybe…
