This is a great statement UC.

But let’s look at it this way too. I need my pick-up for my job. Pick-up trucks use to be the cheapest vehicle you could buy. Now you have people buying them and using them for every day vehicles. Not to haul stuff, 4x4, plow snow, work truck and any other thing that pick-up's were used for in the past. So now, when I go to the dealer and look at a truck that is stickered the same as a luxury car I get a little nauseas. It’s at that time that I wish there never was a pick-up truck fad, which caused the prices to go extremely high. On the other hand, the pickem-up truck fad has made the manufactures produce a much prettier pickem-up with more bells and whistles. So I agree, pick-up’s have their purpose, but the purpose that they were initially designed for and what they have become has changed.

 

I'm having fun. That's what counts the most.














My girlfriend just hit me and said, "That explains a lot."

I wonder what that was all about?

 

ROTLMAO....
I have tears in my eyes I'm laughing so hard.
Tha twas great!

 

Locate in N.O., and no place around you'd need 4WD??????? You've gotta' be kidding. I'm from B.R. and there are plenty of places to 4-wheel all around there. Even before Katrina tried to turn it back into a swamp. (I can say that because my sister lives in Chalmette, and lost everything. I'm not being crass about it.)



And exactly how much less do these dune buggies weigh? My 2WD quad can go through almost as much mud as my buddies 4WD, b/c it's lighter and I hit the hole a lot faster. It's all relative. I don't care for a lifted 2WD truck b/c to me it has no function. But at least, at least it's not one of those trucks with Buckshot Mudders in the back and Fireston Firehawks in the front. Those are the worst.

 

Not being a smartass, but where is there to mud around New Orleans? Closest place I have heard of is Red Creek Offroad, about 30 miles outside of Biloxi. Are you familiar with the Kenner/Metairie area? There is no mud there.

The same can be said for all vehicles...what is their primary function? To get from point A to point B. Some just want to stick out from the rest of people and have a vehicle that looks different.

Take for example a friend of mine with an '03 Z71. He rides around the highway all the time in his truck with 10" of lift with 38x15.5x20 Nitto Mud Grapplers. Does he need any of that for what he does? No. But he does get stares and people's attention, which is exactly what he was going for.

 

No, can't say I'm intimently familier with Kenner/Metarie. But we used to always go down to the Spillway, or Belle River area. Or we'd go up to Pineville. I never thought much about driving an hour or two to go have fun. So I guess that close is a pretty relative term in so much as how much you like to drive. By the way, there are no parks anywhere we used to go, just find mud where it sits, and rearrange the surface of the earth!

 

Not true...

With a 4x4 you can drop it in 4lo and push other crap out of parking spaces.

 

Spillway has been closed to offroading for years. Besides, if you go back to some of my old posts, you will see the spillway stays pretty dry now because the Core of Engineers started to dump mud in to fill the holes. Besides, they are out there 4/7 days a week handing out tickets. If you have anything for than like a 33" all terrain tire, they will be on your *** for sure.

 

This guys got no problem getting it up also!

 

ewwww. I hate the look of Titans. Personally, I think they look like whales.

 

"Spillway has been closed to offroading for years."

Wow, things sure change. I joined the Navy in 98, and haven't really spent much time down there. I remember having my buddy get stuck somwhere just north of Raceland, at Lake Bouef, and it took us 4 days to get him out.

 

That was great.

 

At least mine was a picture of a FORD!