by "HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
Published 03/05/2017 at 02:20
by "HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
Published 03/05/2017 at 02:20
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Is that Step Sides are dead. The newest truck that looked decent with a step side was the GMT400, and it’s still a stupid waste of usable bed space. Did I intentionally pick the worst step side ever just to prove my point? Yes, yes I did. But it’s not the only attempt that didn’t pan out.
For example.
The GTM400 stepside really can look great tho. Especially on a lowered regular cab street truck style build.
but I really can’t see it fitting in on modern trucks, and I’m okay with the that, Even happy about it.
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
03/05/2017 at 02:31, STARS: 1
That Tundra honestly doesn’t look half-bad.
"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76)
03/05/2017 at 02:35, STARS: 14
Yeah, it doesn’t look half-bad...
it looks 100% bad.
"CRider" (crider)
03/05/2017 at 02:35, STARS: 3
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
03/05/2017 at 02:35, STARS: 3
Opinions are like WS6 hoods...
"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76)
03/05/2017 at 02:38, STARS: 4
...mostly false and rarely functional.
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
03/05/2017 at 02:38, STARS: 0
ALL FIREBIRDS NEED OPINIONS IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
03/05/2017 at 02:43, STARS: 1
One thing that helped do them in is full-length running boards. Modern trucks sit higher, so you can have a running board from wheel to wheel and not worry about it scraping. Stepside does look best on a street truck... too bad most of the step panels are fiberglass. Here’s my old truck. Yep that’s a hole in the side step. It stayed that way for damn near a year, because the part is almost impossible to find and stupid expensive.
"Amoore100" (amoore100)
03/05/2017 at 02:44, STARS: 0
Why did they ever exist in the first place? (Honest question, I can’t figure out why you’d ever want a smaller bed just because you’re too lazy/cheap to buy a stepstool.)
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/05/2017 at 02:46, STARS: 3
I have to believe that Toyota just decided to make the dumbest looking stepsides in history just to put a nail in their coffin and drive people away from them. They don’t work with modern truck lines anyway. That GMT400 though, mmm. The F150 of the era wasn’t bad either. I’d bed-swap a ‘94 Lightning.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
03/05/2017 at 02:47, STARS: 0
But half of it is bad.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
03/05/2017 at 02:48, STARS: 2
I think it was just to simply construction, it was just easier to have a box, and fenders than build the fenders into the box. Then when running boards went away to match the look of cars in the 50s, and cabs got wider, so did beds. But step sides stuck around because some people wanted to keep that bit of running board, or the option to remove the fender altogether.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
03/05/2017 at 02:49, STARS: 0
Exactly.
"Forrest" (forrest)
03/05/2017 at 02:50, STARS: 1
I sort of like the halfway stepside look of the Mazda B-series clone of the Ranger. While the Ranger was either flat-side or stepside, the B-series bed was somewhere in between.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
03/05/2017 at 02:52, STARS: 1
I know rightl It’s like Toyota didn’t really want to do it, but retro was all the rage at the time, and GM was doing it.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
03/05/2017 at 02:57, STARS: 2
I forgot the S-10 had a step side, I think it looks good from most angles, but from behind the taillights looks too close together. Maybe another reason it worked better on older trucks. On an old Chevy step side the tailights are small and mounted outboard, so they don’t take up as much visual space.
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
03/05/2017 at 02:59, STARS: 1
I always liked that to, a bit of the styling but non of the lost bed space. Of coarse there’s also no step lol.
"Birddog" (maintmgt)
03/05/2017 at 03:14, STARS: 2
That Toyota is just a horrible mess.
Stepsides haven’t been really relavent since the late 50s. Some look good but they’re useless. It’s a style choice. And it is nice to have choices.
"jimz" (jimz)
03/05/2017 at 07:19, STARS: 4
like he said, in the early days (1930s-1940s) it was the easier/cheaper way to make pickup boxes. The inside of the box just needed simple, straight walls and the wheelwells could be welded on to the outsides.
Then in the mid ‘50s, car makers started offering “fleetside/styleside” beds, starting with (I believe) the 1955 Chevy Cameo:
you got increased bed capacity with the tradeoff that the wheelwells now protruded into the bed.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
03/05/2017 at 08:06, STARS: 1
I’m with you.
...although I will admit, that step is awfully nice sometimes. I wouldn’t want my own truck to be a stepside; I’m not willing to give up that extra room. But if I’m helping a buddy load their truck with stuff, sometimes that step placement is handy.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
03/05/2017 at 08:40, STARS: 4
I’ve never understood the purpose of the step side. Just step on the tire.
"Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif" (lumpy44)
03/05/2017 at 09:49, STARS: 1
Hey! My Sonoma is step and you are wro....right, ya you right
"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
03/05/2017 at 09:52, STARS: 0
I just realized why al those modern truck look silly. Step sides only work on regular cab trucks, which sadly are also basically dead.
"JKER" (jker)
03/05/2017 at 09:53, STARS: 0
Hey man, I liked my stepside!
"MM54" (mm54mk2)
03/05/2017 at 11:22, STARS: 1
I agree. Never been a fan of stepsides on anything even remotely modern (then again I also like longbeds so...)
"facw" (facw)
03/05/2017 at 12:17, STARS: 1
Presumably you could do recessed ones, like on the Brat without wasting bed space:
