1969 Chevy Pickup... When no one wanted pickups! So, you're stuck with a truck... Times do CHANGE!

Lol well adding things like AC helped... real radios... power seats! comfort...
Slowly car makers realized people wanted a truck with options... and gave them better rides also.

[@bobjohnson205]

Now it's the customer who is stuck with a truck because that's about all some of these auto manufacturers are building! Sigh! 😐

[@kc4cvh]

Today, a lot of dealers are stuck with hundreds of trucks. It doesn't look like any of them have an 8-foot bed, an L6 engine or a standard cab.

[@Truth_Spoken]

As someone who never thought I’d own a truck, after getting my F-150 I couldn’t imagine owning anything else now. I now understand why they sell so many trucks these days.

[@glennso47]

They were not selling many in those days. Trucks were not luxury vehicles then. They were made for work.

[@krisw8597]

Lol I have a 69 C10… It’s funny, that’s when trucks were trucks back in the day. Now we have trucks, but more refined with better interiors then most cars…lol

[@SuperKenh]

I would love to have them today!

[@CJColvin]

Same here

[@mer58lin]

My Dad bought a brand new '69 C-20 in '69. Traded his '65 C-20. That '69 2wd had a 307 and a 4-gear stick w/ grandma gear. It made easily 100+ trips from grandpas farm to Dads new farm (88 miles)hauling anything and pulling a 16' heavy tilt trailer loaded with Anything that needed to be taken from one farm to the other.
I drove it to school when I first got my license.
Dollar for Dollar there isnt a new model that could handle what it did.

[@humbertogarcia3503]

Interesante y que padre que una C20 usara un motor 307, creí que solo era para C10.

[@mer58lin]

@@humbertogarcia3503 Oh what I would give to have that very 307 in my 2012 Colorado that now has the 5cyl.

[@lanedexter6303]

This was amusing! I had a bare bones basic Chevy C/10 with long bed, 250 six, three on the tree, painted metal plate in the painted metal dash, where a radio could have gone. But that truck did a LOT of work, rode well, and was easy to maintain. Even now, I have a 1986 F250 and a 1982 GMC C2500.

[@nlpnt]

On another site someone said "a Chevy truck (from this era) was a vehicle, a Ford truck was an implement."

[@briang4470]

They probably said that because the Chevy/GMC trucks of that time typically rode/drive a lot nicer than the fords of that time. Because of that the Chevy trucks made for decent work trucks and could be used as a normal vehicle and still be comfortable to drive, where the Ford's were very rough riding but were heavy duty and still made for a very tough work truck at the cost of poor ride quality.

[@user-bm8ei5ub1c]

@@briang4470 not true..the fords of this era rode well ...and the ford had more room in the cab area

[@briang4470]

@@user-bm8ei5ub1c I was never a fan of the "twin i-beam" suspension in those trucks. The bushings would wear out in the radius arms all the time and if the alignment wasn't 100% spot on, they would destroy front tires like crazy. And in my experience the Ford's of that era I have rode in , rode like garbage, if it was 4 wheel drive, it didn't matter what brand the truck was it was going to ride rough but in the 2wd trucks i prefer the Chevy style front suspension.

[@user-bm8ei5ub1c]

@@briang4470 i have owned a few fords over the years and the bushings held up pretty well ..but yeah i know of a front axle is out of wack , they are a pain to align

[@anthonyrowland9072]

Ford trucks were fine but they seemed old timey compared the the GM and Dodge offerings until their new 1980 model.

[@kennethanway7979]

I'd take one though! 😀👍

[@kennethanway7979]

At the time, they were pretty crude.

[@keithmedovich6889]

I'll take that 1 ton with the 396 & 4 wheel drive please

[@timkis64]

id take a 69 truck of any american manafacturer over the 4 wheeled POS so called trucks there selling today for 85k$.

[@paulradice3534]

Odd control arms

[@charlesb7019]

I still don’t want a truck….

[@bobjohnson205]

Good choice! You're a wise man! 😉

[@IanHotson]

Good for you Charles B, leave the trucks to the people that like them, more for us LOL

[@crustyoldoffroader7436]

I’ve owned trucks for the better part of fifty years, it would be hard to be without one. My neighbor told me for many years that he would never have one. Somehow he decided to buy one. That was 15 years ago and he’s had it ever since.