Your greatest vehicle.

[greengreer]

300ci inline 6, t18 4speed. Bulletproof drivetrain, will go damn near anywhere a jeep can.

 

[Sgriff]

Can you buy one like that anymore? Single cab? Short wheel base?

Absolutely,they are a hot item,The single/regular cabs.

 

[kevin bingham]

Absolutely,they are a hot item,The single/regular cabs.

Send me a link for a 2016 single cab tacoma.

 

[greengreer]

They make them, you can even get a 4 banger and a 5 speed still.

 

[kevin bingham]

They make them, you can even get a 4 banger and a 5 speed still.

Really? I can't find one other than fleet vehicles

 

[Sgriff]

They quit making the single cab in 2014,I'm assuming Kevin knows this,obviously you can purchase a 2door still. Just cause they aren't ready fresh off the factory floor bran new definitely doesn't mean they aren't available. There is little difference in dimension and wheelbase specs honestly.

 

[Sgriff]

this is still a bad ass little truck,i like the mini back door and the fact you get bucket seats that recline,how is someone gonna bitch about that.
(I'm not the biggest fan of the current body style)

 

[Burnham]

I haven't regularly driven or owned a standard cab pickup since the late '90s. And I'll never drive a standard cab pickup again...just too much sense in having some safe and dry interior space for gear/tools/luggage/groceries/dog/etc. to ever wish for a regular cab truck.

Full-on four door pickups, meh. Not for me, really. But an extended cab is right down my alley.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I feel that same way, but I kinda wonder if I'd like a stick again.

I love coasting...

 

[Sgriff]

I wonder the same about standard transmission,i miss it but....

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Learned to drive standard on one that was almost identical, Jay. Think it was a '71...great little truck.

I traded my 71 for a 44 mag and some money on top. Probably about what it cost new. Just a couple years ago.
I had a 76 long bed ex cab that never said never. That 2000 cc would just about pull anything seemingly. Body finally rotted out and some kid gave me 500.00 for it and was gonna restore it. Fun trucks.
I loved my VW truck too. I had the gasser and not the diesel. Man that thing would haul arse and handle like a scirocco.

 

[Chris E]

Yep, the extended cab makes life so much more orderly. I've got fold up seats in the back of the Mazda, I'm thinking of pulling em out for better space economy.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Can you get a ute with an extended cab?

 

[Chris E]

most definately, what makes you think otherwise?

Or if you mean ute as in our domestic gm/ford v6/v8 variants then not really, one of them has a double cab but to the best of my knowledge the rest are exclusively single cabs

 

[kevin bingham]

I really do like the Tacomas. But even those are twice the size of the little trucks of the 80s- early 90s. But I think that tree that the little trucks of old were great, the mazdas, the dat suns, VWs, Toyotas. No frills just little work horses. I have a mazda now which is basically a ford ranger.

 

[Chris E]

I love watching the older Japanese cars at the drag strip, compact, insane power:weight, angry little bastards

 

[squisher]

Y'all are nuts. Go big or go home!

I'll stick with seating for six and my six speed auto.

 

[squisher]

I'm just razzing y'all.

Get some more pics up of these little trucks!

 

[greengreer]

Really? I can't find one other than fleet vehicles

You're right, I thought they still made a regular cab. I guess it's hard to justify building a model they dont sell very many of these days.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Dodge is the only one of the big three that offers a stick, but they derate the hp. Not sure if they offer it on a gasser. GM is supposed to offer the Colorado and Canyon with a little Duramax, but I doubt that will have a stick.

 

[Sgriff]

My brothers '87 b2000 bit dirty n hammered down

 

[kevin bingham]

the coloroado with the duramax would be pretty sweet. thats a sweet little mazda. I like big trucks too but it gets me seeing all these people drive around huge trucks with nothing in them. a little truck can just be the best little work horses. The F-150 is about the stupidest truck ever because it can't really work hard and its so big it can't really fit anywhere. I used my old vw like a dingo I could get my little chipper into the back of yards with it, I would hook up logs with the log arch and tow them around town. I loved that thing so much. I had beefed up the springs and had a custom bumper slash tow package made. That thing got me started!
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i8VfedhvXY4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

my first youtube video.

you'll see we pass a chevy 1/2 ton. that was a 1980 1/2 chevy with an old mobile diesel engine. that truck sucked. lol.

 

[kevin bingham]

https://youtu.be/SrAV4H0FiEk


<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SrAV4H0FiEk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>actually looking at my youtube channel this was my first you tube video. I didn't shoot the video, some german tourists did. That was a funny day.

 

[Merle Nelson]

You're right, I thought they still made a regular cab. I guess it's hard to justify building a model they dont sell very many of these days.

Think I read it here on Tree House that single cabs are pushed out by some Air Quality Target Numbers and the product line of a company getting closer to that by selling pick ups with more square inches of passenger space per amount of emissions. Was that SOTC who brought that forward?

 

[Sgriff]

Could you imagine that,a duramax Colorado.... That would be the shizntt.