In Alberta, it seems that everyone and their dog drives a pickup truck. With all the farming, construction, oil related work, etc. it’s not hard to understand why trucks are a favoured vehicle. Many are mud splattered, battered, and loaded down with a tonne of equipment. They’re true work trucks.
A good chunk of those that aren’t work trucks still bear a lot of the scars trucks are meant to display. My own baby truck has a pretty substantial dent in the side and hood from misadventures and the like. If they were on a car, these dents would have me rushing to the body shop to have it fixed. On my truck, they seem like minor blemishes that tell the story of it’s adventures and seem to add to the aethetics of the vehicle rather than taking away from it.
Every once in a while you see something strange on the roads that really just seems to defy the whole reasoning behind owning a pickup. I just don’t see the point in purchasing the Lincoln or Cadillac versions of the vehicle. No matter that these trucks just don’t look right…I just can visualize the owners of a Lincoln or Cadillac (or any other high-end car brand) truck shrugging their shoulders and saying “oh well” if there truck were to mysteriously develop a dent like Fords, Dodges, GMC’s and Chevy’s have been known to do. I certainly can’t picture them living by the philosophy that “the first dent’s mine, all others don’t matter…“. And as hard as I try, I can’t imagine one of these odd looking designer trucks being loading with wood, hay, steel piping, sod, etc.
I just don’t see the point of paying so much money for a truck if you’re not going to use it as intended – to haul, pull, drag, throw crap in or on, etc. I’m soooo confused. Let’s not get me started on the bright pink low rider trucks that look like they were spawned from a pepto bismal bottle…