devildodge said:
my first purchase was a 1977 Ramcharger named BUB by my mother, Big Ugly Beast. I was hooked, but the reason I went searching for a dodge in the first place was my dad always owned chrysler cars and ford trucks. A bullozer backed over my Dad's Ford (he works in a strip mine) and while he was wrangling out getting it fixed he bought a 1980 2 wheel drive regular cab shortbed with a 360 and watching him giggle like a teenager everytime he drove it, and bragging about making it out the cut while the other guys were reaching for 4wd. I have owned so many others but unfortunately have no pictures of most of them. My favorite one I wish I had not sold (divorce is wonderful) was a 79 Plymouth Trailduster. But, fortunately my favorite truck of them all is my V10 I currently have.
The W250 was built for going anywhere and doing work with attitude.
The W150 was so much more relaxing to plow in and was more than capable...you aren't even able to put them on a 1500 anymore...it is a good truck, serves me well.
I sure do miss Regular Cab Longbed work trucks. And i sure do miss that Yellow W250.
There are certain coincidences paralleling our lives here, again ! My 1st Dodge was also in 1977 -- it was a B200 Van - school bus yellow; never did care much for the color, but that 5.9 V8 sure could "kick ***" ! I do have one or 2 pics but I'll have to take digital photos of them & download into iPhoto before I can put them here - perhaps later today.
My 2003 SLT 1500 was "just" a 4X2 Hemi-V8, Standard Cab, 6'4" Bed; But Actually the 1st was the 2002 Std. Cab with the Long 8' Bed with the Hemi-V8, my 1st Hemi, oh and it was a 4X4 . The only reason 7 months after buy I traded it in for the 2003 was for the Towing Capacity -- much better with the 4X2 ! Not so much anymore these days they are closer / the 4X4 & 4X2 ! I too am a Big Fan of RVing it and Getting Out Their in Nature -- which is why I opted for the 4X2 for towing my soon to buy 6500 lb. 28 ft. TT by WRV / Alpenlite Aspen model . This was back in 2004 / 05, shortly after Retiring from the Navy . After 2 years of "roaming" in Washington & Oregon I opted to have More Room in my Full time Adventures . . . so I trade up to an Alpenlite 5th wheel ( I can also make that into a digital too, later ) ! I gave up the ability to tow that and it also restricted my ability to go anywhere whenever I chose / Trade offs are a B**ch ! I did that for another 3 years then sold and moved on to the Boring tumultuous Apartment dwellers life ! Never cared for it but 90% of my life has been in one ! You Never get used to the comings & goings of your neighbors - especially the Bad Ones !
Well. to end on an FCA note, IF only FCA-US made a TravelTrailer with a REBEL them ! ! I think we'd both be "in heaven"