<VV> Tailgate Height (was: loadside trucks)

[J R Read]

No, it just sounds like people have gotten taller (on average) since the 
'60s.
Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shortle" <shortle556 at earthlink.net>
To: "Vairtec Corporation" <Vairtec at optonline.net>; 
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Tailgate Height (was: loadside trucks)


> So it sounds like the agreement is the early Rampside is better than the 
> early Loadside? Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Vairtec Corporation <Vairtec at optonline.net>
>>Sent: Aug 22, 2011 8:42 PM
>>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>>Subject: <VV> Tailgate Height (was: loadside trucks)
>>
>>At 09:49 PM 8/22/2011, J R Read wrote:
>>
>>>They DO have a tailgate - just awfully high above the ground.
>>
>>The height of the tailgate is a long-standing complaint about the
>>Corvair pickups, and one of the reasons that when new they did not
>>sell as well as they might.
>>
>>But today, it's hooey.  Why?  Because all modern trucks have
>>tailgates that are much higher off the ground!  The tailgate on my
>>Rampside is closer to the ground than the tailgate on my 2004 GMC
>>Sierra 1500, and the GMC is one of the "lower" of the late-model
>>trucks.  Take a look at the new trucks from GM, Ford, and Dodge
>>(whose dumb idea was it to rebrand them "Ram?")  They ALL have
>>tailgates much higher off the ground than a Corvair pickup, and
>>bedsides far more difficult to reach over than the side of a Loadside.
>>
>>
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