I believe you buckhorn76, as you know there are lemons no matter what name is on the tailgate. Maybe it's our climate here or what ? but you just don't see them here and there are more trucks on the road than cars here. It was actually one of my relatives who had a new one about 5 years ago and babied it but had to get rid of it cause it was just junk. It burned more gas than a 52 Buick and just had constant problems. A retired school teacher had the only other one I knew of and same thing, if it wasn't the water pump then it was something else and wait and wait to get parts. Never seen a farmer have one , GM , Dodge and Ford is that order is what runs out here in ag country and probably 1/2 are diesels.. The cars seem ok, we even just bought our parish priest a new toy and so far so good . No matter what brand I always tell guys get as much warranty as you can cause they all break and are expensive to fix these days. I like the fact you got a 8 foot box, to me that is a truck when you can throw a sheet of plywood in there and close the end gate. That's alot of horses too, should pull the car trailer fairly easy. My dad has a 2001 gmc with the 5.3 that is great on gas, goes like crazy empty but when I hooked my old car trailer onto it the 5.3 tongue kinda hangs out, it can't pull like my 80 GMC 1/2 4x4 with the 350 4bbl. Guess I'll always be old school.
