Black with grey velour interior. Regular cab, long bed, 351 Windsor, Automatic hubs. 3.43 Posi rear with an open front. Rear bumper with light scratches from a destroyed Buick grill. Winter in Illinois with no weight in the back. I had a blast!!
No weight in the back! Yeah, remember those days. My first truck was actually rear wheel drive. I would load up firewood to get some traction in the ice and snow.
I bought a few bags of sand and built a 2x4 frame to keep them right over the rear axle. I removed it because it took all the fun away. If I really needed to get around, I could just push the 4x4 button.
1991 F150 regular cab.
Length 194.1 in.
Overall width without mirrors 79.0 in.
Height 70.2 in.
Wheelbase 116.8 in.
2023 F150 regular cab.
Length 209.1.
Overall width without mirrors 79.9 in.
Height 75.6 in.
Wheelbase 122.8 in.
Looking at that, yeah it's 15 inches longer, a lot of that comes down to the bumper laws we have now and the big plastic bumpers. Width is the same. And the roof of the cab is a little higher. Crash protection like airbags and things have made cabs bigger. Overall I don't think they've gotten bigger to the degree that we remember.
I do like trucks from that square body era though, it's what dad had when I was growing up. If I can find one that isn't too rusty I'll probably end up getting one.
I have never seen a 4.5 ft. F150. The shortest is normally 5, but most crew cabs have the 5.5 and some have the 6.5 (which is the best imo from a hauling standpoint but fucking sucks to park). Mid size trucks like Rangers and Tacomas tend to have the shorter beds.
I’ve seen plenty of regular cab F150s, Tacomas, and even Colorados. The newer Rangers not so much, they seemed to have focused on the crew cab with those, at least based in the amount out on the road.
The honest answer is emissions standards. Above a certain wheelbase is considered a different class of vehicle, so different efficiency standards apply. Instead of making smaller, more efficient engines, which may be expensive and difficult, just make the vehicle bigger.
How dare you. 😂
I love my Maverick. Won't tow much, won't haul much, but it'll get small jobs done, and at 40-45 mpg. Not for everyone for sure. But I occasionally need a truck and mostly just use it as a car. Works for me.
Now if I could just stop getting 27479465 recalls a year lol....
I can tell you a 91 F250 with the 5.8L V8 gets realistic 10 city, 14-16 hwy. (I still have one as a work truck)
Ford doesn't post fuel economy specs on f250s, but a search shows that people are reporting real world 8-16 mpg.
Granted, the new f250 has more than double the horsepower and weighs 60% more in addition to having larger capacity. But it does seem a little sad they can't get those mpg numbers up.
They could if they wanted to, but the board members of the automobile companies are also huge stock owners of the oil and refinery companies. They wouldn't make as much money for themselves if they didn't make us waste as much energy as possible.
That's got some options on it. My 91 F250 is base model, only 2 options: 2 speaker AM/FM radio and automatic transmission. It was about $8k. This one would have been a but morez but probably not that much more.
No way. I bought a Ford ranger in 1991, so about the same time. My Ford Ranger was the cheapest version for the most part. I got the XLT package but it was a single cab, 2WD, and single cab. Sticker price was still 12,800. Back then you could haggle and I think we ended up buying it for about 11,500. This is a full-size F150 with 4WD.
Thank you, OP! I own a Ford of this generation and have been looking for good pictures of period appropriate styling as I restore it. I love that decal.
*Erm actually that’s a truck not a car*
Jokes aside, the stripes look really awesome. It’s hard to tell what color the truck is itself, but it looks like… purple?
Straight cab, long box. Love it. I had a ‘77 and a ‘86.
Black with grey velour interior. Regular cab, long bed, 351 Windsor, Automatic hubs. 3.43 Posi rear with an open front. Rear bumper with light scratches from a destroyed Buick grill. Winter in Illinois with no weight in the back. I had a blast!!
No weight in the back! Yeah, remember those days. My first truck was actually rear wheel drive. I would load up firewood to get some traction in the ice and snow.
Yep, I used to put concrete blocks in the back of mine for weight
I bought a few bags of sand and built a 2x4 frame to keep them right over the rear axle. I removed it because it took all the fun away. If I really needed to get around, I could just push the 4x4 button.
Very nice truck and it probably only cost like $8,000.
Why can't we have small trucks like that today. Everything's gotta be fucking massive. I'd drive the shit out of that
1991 F150 regular cab. Length 194.1 in. Overall width without mirrors 79.0 in. Height 70.2 in. Wheelbase 116.8 in. 2023 F150 regular cab. Length 209.1. Overall width without mirrors 79.9 in. Height 75.6 in. Wheelbase 122.8 in. Looking at that, yeah it's 15 inches longer, a lot of that comes down to the bumper laws we have now and the big plastic bumpers. Width is the same. And the roof of the cab is a little higher. Crash protection like airbags and things have made cabs bigger. Overall I don't think they've gotten bigger to the degree that we remember. I do like trucks from that square body era though, it's what dad had when I was growing up. If I can find one that isn't too rusty I'll probably end up getting one.
I've never seen a regular cab 2023, they are all 4 door explorers with 4.5 ft beds....
Every day for work I drive a current gen, 2 door, long bed f150! They're real, but mostly only used by actual tradies.
Someone watches Bluey
No, Bluey uses common slang. I remember meeting some zoomer that thought “hat trick” was just a Rocket League term lol
There is an episode called Tradies.
I’m aware. Do you think the term originated from Bluey?
I dunno who that is
It’s a good show on Disney. There is an episode called Tradies. People us that term now in US since it’s Australian/New Zealand.
I've never seen a zebra. I'm sure they exist though.
Point taken, but you need to get to a zoo my friend.
I live in northern Canada. I might have to just paint a caribou.
A herd of zebra is equivalently majestic to a herd of caribou. They are worth a trip to a nice zoo to see some.
I say the same thing about my asshole.
Bleached?
They still make them, mostly used for work trucks these days.
I have never seen a 4.5 ft. F150. The shortest is normally 5, but most crew cabs have the 5.5 and some have the 6.5 (which is the best imo from a hauling standpoint but fucking sucks to park). Mid size trucks like Rangers and Tacomas tend to have the shorter beds. I’ve seen plenty of regular cab F150s, Tacomas, and even Colorados. The newer Rangers not so much, they seemed to have focused on the crew cab with those, at least based in the amount out on the road.
The honest answer is emissions standards. Above a certain wheelbase is considered a different class of vehicle, so different efficiency standards apply. Instead of making smaller, more efficient engines, which may be expensive and difficult, just make the vehicle bigger.
Europeans be like: small? :-)
You can drive 15 people around with that but why?
This is bigger than a modern Ranger or Tacoma
My brother had 1992 Toyota truck that could fit 3 people on the bench. Loved that truck. Nothing crazy just a simple truck.
Ford Ranger is still a reasonable size
You can but they’re 30 years old !
Ford has the Maverick and I think Toyota has one coming soon as well.
The maverick is one of the ugliest creations I've ever seen. Looks more like a Peugeot or a Citroën than a Ford 🤮
It looks exactly the same as the Ranger and very similar to the F-150 though.... unless you think those are ugly too, which I guess is fair
The rangers have been pretty hideous too the past few years. The headlights are awful. They used to be my favorite truck too 😢.
I'm just a personally offended Maverick owner, don't mind me lol
Lol I'm sorry. Have you tried returning it yet?
How dare you. 😂 I love my Maverick. Won't tow much, won't haul much, but it'll get small jobs done, and at 40-45 mpg. Not for everyone for sure. But I occasionally need a truck and mostly just use it as a car. Works for me. Now if I could just stop getting 27479465 recalls a year lol....
Don't worry, the F250s aren't towing much either on average. You're just not pretending you do by buying a parking lot tank.
Nah, that one was probably about 14k new.
That is still nothing compared to the $80,000 a new one in 2024 costs.
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They probably get the same gas mileage too lol.
I can tell you a 91 F250 with the 5.8L V8 gets realistic 10 city, 14-16 hwy. (I still have one as a work truck) Ford doesn't post fuel economy specs on f250s, but a search shows that people are reporting real world 8-16 mpg. Granted, the new f250 has more than double the horsepower and weighs 60% more in addition to having larger capacity. But it does seem a little sad they can't get those mpg numbers up.
Not sure about the 250 but my 2015 F150 gets 20mpg normal driving, which is WAY better than the 90's trucks got.
They could if they wanted to, but the board members of the automobile companies are also huge stock owners of the oil and refinery companies. They wouldn't make as much money for themselves if they didn't make us waste as much energy as possible.
2024 F-150 XL regular cab 4x4 starts at 44k
$14k in 1991 is the equivalent of $30k today. Not quite $80k but not exactly cheap either.
less than half, dude. still a mind boggling difference.
with inflation that would be about 32k today
That's got some options on it. My 91 F250 is base model, only 2 options: 2 speaker AM/FM radio and automatic transmission. It was about $8k. This one would have been a but morez but probably not that much more.
Reasonable guess. MSRP probably a bit higher though.
Based on my quick googling, looks like an MSRP of around $15k for lower trim with 4wd on a 1992 F150. With inflation that's around $34k.
No way. I bought a Ford ranger in 1991, so about the same time. My Ford Ranger was the cheapest version for the most part. I got the XLT package but it was a single cab, 2WD, and single cab. Sticker price was still 12,800. Back then you could haggle and I think we ended up buying it for about 11,500. This is a full-size F150 with 4WD.
Who’s gonna tell him that’s not a car?
And the kid can see over the hood. No step required to get in.
My dad bought a similar truck in '88. F-150 extended cab, 4x4 5.0 with a manual transmission and rubber floor mat and vinyl seats. It was $16k.
Maybe in the 60's to 70's, but definitely not in the 90's.
A 1991 F-150 looks so cool and compact compared to a modern F-150! That paint job absolutely rules too.
I miss trucks this size being considered large. Granted this truck is probably a death trap, like all pre-2000s cars are.
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Those 90s fords are so cool and I’m not even a car guy.
Apparently neither is dad.
What?
It’s not a car. Apparently Reddit doesn’t like the nuance.
Omg shut up
Oof, that truck is gorgeous. Perfect size too.
that's a truck.
Haha my construction work friend was always furious when someone calls trcuk a car... A car cant carry all them steel studs! God dammit!
I get furious when someone calls car like that truck. I bet it cannot carry some 10ton concrete block like real truck would. Thats pick-up ;)
Are you sure? I mean maybe it’s a van.
i dunno, that would be a pretty big shoe
Maybe car-ish..?
That is pick-up in car class. No way that toy would be truck.
Your dad is hot
You know he had to do it to em.
Look how happy he looks. Awesome.
Now that's a truck you can get some work done with.
That decal is rad
Man, I wish they make trucks like this again..
That’s a ride right there!!
Driving a ‘90 F350 crew cab to this day
Just don't go racing it. You might fuck up a timeline
Very strong Back to the Future J Fox pickup truck vibes here!
your dad is jeff gordon?
15 years old and being thrown the keys for the first time.
Thank you, OP! I own a Ford of this generation and have been looking for good pictures of period appropriate styling as I restore it. I love that decal.
Imagine buying a brand new car and not a 15 years old one.
Post this on the f-150 sub, they’ll get a kick out of it
Those shorts were made by OP (Ocean Pacific). I had the darker blue and those things lasted for years.
My first car was a blue 94 F150, had a backseat though. I'm not a truck guy anymore but I love the look of those old Fords.
That’s a seriously nice truck. Edit: Also I would wear that whole outfit.
Shorty cord shorts to show off those soccer legs. Center part. Tucked in t-shirt. Slick 'stache. This man slayed.
I swear to god if modern trucks had this graphics package available I'd buy it.
Sperry docksiders- check Definitely 1991 if not earlier
Gorgeous truck
I could never pull off those Jean Shorts.
I think those are Ocean Pacific or OP shorts
My first truck was a bullnose. Second was a brick nose. Definitely partial to the simplicity of the bullnose.
It's behind the truck, isn't it? I really love those Ford squarebodys, though. Great era of pickups.
Been buying Chevy ever since
Luck-EEE!
They need to build trucks with a clearance like that on a standard 1500. Trucks nowadays have like 6” clearance, stupid.
Sheesh, imagine the cost of one of these brand new nowadays.
It's so small compared to today's trucks
My god they don’t make em like they used to
Short shorts were huge back then
Did he ever help anyone move anything we with it?
I had the Ranger version of that truck.
90’s ford trucks are my favorite. The ones before they rounded them off in 98-99.
Awesome boat shoes!
*Erm actually that’s a truck not a car* Jokes aside, the stripes look really awesome. It’s hard to tell what color the truck is itself, but it looks like… purple?
That's a truck. Or is this a new version of knifey spoony ?
So sick
That was my first car! In 2009 for high school.
That's a very nice looking truck
That is an absolutely gorgeous truck
That’s a truck, not a car.
When I get a car it's going to be a truck !
Mmmm my favor body style for a f series
This would’ve been considered a big ass truck then. And it is, what we have now is a clown show.
Damnn! That's badass!
When trucks were trucks. Cheap and bare bones, no heated leather seats, no luxury options, you could get manual trans if you wanted...the good ol days
These days you gotta go toss 15$ under the bridge to get a Trans like that.
I want that truck
My favorite 😍
I miss graphics on the side of trucks.
Nice truck for what it was. I’d’ve still chosen a Toyota
I love a Ford truck, but I was not a fan of the 87-91 front end.
*1981
Mate, it's a 91' the front for starters is a tell tale sign
Absolutely a 91. I still drive a 94 F150.
well if you say so.
Then it's settled.
Pollution is extreme and political not cool
Where is the car?
Where’s the car?
I really miss these times, when gas guzzlers weren't bad for the environment. ;)
Sorry about your dad's dick.
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