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480-HP Ford F-100 Eluminator Concept Shows What Electric Crate Motors Can Do
The vintage electric pickup truck has the same dual-motor powertrain as the Mustang Mach-E GT Performance, and the crate motor is for sale.
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389 Hood
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Can we please have the thin/skinny old-fashioned steering wheel with the horn ring? No... they have to put in that useless oversized wheel full of all sorts of garbage for your fingers and no place to comfortably rest your hands on the wheel during a long drive.
I already have a modern day truck. If I want to go retro, then give me retro, not retro combined with modern day junk. My F-150 is a 2011 and trying to do a long drive with it, is very uncomfortable. The wheel doesn't come out far enough to rest your arm on the door armrest, or down far enough to rest your hand at the top. The only close to comfortable position for your hands are the 10 and 2 positions. In that position, your arms drain themselves of blood in about 1/2 an hour. Then you have about 20 buttons that clog up any other positions and the 4 thick spokes.
The newer they get, the more uncomfortable they are to drive. I've driven my 76 Eldorado to the Woodward Dream Cruise in Detroit and to several Cadillac sponsored functions around the East Coast. The adjustability of the steering wheel and the seat, plus the expansive legroom because there is no console to trap you in, enables you to drive the car for hours on end without getting numb. The worst part about that car being on a road trip is the noise from the convertible top not sealing well with the windows. Air leaks abound, no matter how well-adjusted all the mating surfaces are.
I already have a modern day truck. If I want to go retro, then give me retro, not retro combined with modern day junk. My F-150 is a 2011 and trying to do a long drive with it, is very uncomfortable. The wheel doesn't come out far enough to rest your arm on the door armrest, or down far enough to rest your hand at the top. The only close to comfortable position for your hands are the 10 and 2 positions. In that position, your arms drain themselves of blood in about 1/2 an hour. Then you have about 20 buttons that clog up any other positions and the 4 thick spokes.
The newer they get, the more uncomfortable they are to drive. I've driven my 76 Eldorado to the Woodward Dream Cruise in Detroit and to several Cadillac sponsored functions around the East Coast. The adjustability of the steering wheel and the seat, plus the expansive legroom because there is no console to trap you in, enables you to drive the car for hours on end without getting numb. The worst part about that car being on a road trip is the noise from the convertible top not sealing well with the windows. Air leaks abound, no matter how well-adjusted all the mating surfaces are.
Electric Chicken
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A 2011 uncomfortable? Damn.
389 Hood
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Not uncomfortable per se'. Uncomfortable to drive any kind of distance, simply due to the entire steering wheel design and the way the tilt/telescopic column operates. The truck itself is the Platinum edition and I ordered it with everything they made at the time, so saying it's uncomfortable would be a stretch. It's nothing like the Fords and Lincolns of yesteryear, or even GM's and Mopars for that matter. The tilt function is the entire column down instead of the type that when you pressed the turn signal lever away from you, or pulled on the tilt release handle, the steering wheel itself tilted down and when you released the telescopic feature, just the wheel slid in and out. Now the whole damned column moves and it's not ergonomically comfortable.
Your Mack, I think has exactly what I'm talking about. Just the wheel itself moves. The Volvo truck and now all the rest, have the entire column moving via a foot pedal and there is no comfortable position, because the column brings the wheel in to you at a funky angle. The Engineers are the idiots for designing crap like this. But then, Engineers don't have much sense of reality to begin with.
Your Mack, I think has exactly what I'm talking about. Just the wheel itself moves. The Volvo truck and now all the rest, have the entire column moving via a foot pedal and there is no comfortable position, because the column brings the wheel in to you at a funky angle. The Engineers are the idiots for designing crap like this. But then, Engineers don't have much sense of reality to begin with.
Electric Chicken
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My Mack has the foot pedal but I can't remember what all moves. I set it when I first got it and don't dare fuck it up.
Electric Chicken
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My F250 and LTL don't move at all. They are what they are.
Electric Chicken
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Electric Chicken
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I bet. I'm good though, thanks. I watch FuzzCheck with Orwell on YouTube get his ass tossed around and I'm all nopity nope nope about cabovers.
Duck
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I wish my 77 F-100 (Blueford) had modern power steering, and the steering wheel from my Dodge van with the cruise control buttons on the spokes. Oh and I guess I'd like to add cruise control too.
I also wish it had bucket seats with arm rests so I can carry stuff in milk crates between the seats.
And some kind of anti-sway bar.
And power brakes.
And a modern stereo.
389 Hood
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I do have to admit, the sound system is just so awesome. It's a 700 watt Sony with 8 speakers and a very vibrational subwoofer. The next best thing is the Bluetooth, so I don't even have to look at the phone when someone wants to bother me. It just displays on the little LCD screen above the head unit. I didn't want the navigation package as I hate those damned bright screens in my eyes.
Rigjockey
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When I was a car jockey at a car rental place, before I became Rigjockey. We could always take our choice of car when we were sent somewhere the other guys always wanted the sportier cars. I was like 23 yrs old, I always wanted the Lincoln or the Cadillac or at the time the Chrysler LHS.
Electric Chicken
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Chrysler LHS? Oh you poor naive bumpkin. It's like you're Elly May.
Phantom Trucker
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Electric Chicken
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Yeah man there's a reason swamp crotch stains have been on the rise.
Duck
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Blueford has those air vents down by your feet. On a hot day, pull the lever out & you get wind on your legs.
It also has the little triangle windows in the doors. Turn that thing around so it scoops air in, and you don't need no damn air conditioning.
It also has the headlight embrightener switch on the floor.
And no effin' computer chips.
It also has the little triangle windows in the doors. Turn that thing around so it scoops air in, and you don't need no damn air conditioning.
It also has the headlight embrightener switch on the floor.
And no effin' computer chips.
Electric Chicken
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Embrightener.Blueford has those air vents down by your feet. On a hot day, pull the lever out & you get wind on your legs.
It also has the little triangle windows in the doors. Turn that thing around so it scoops air in, and you don't need no damn air conditioning.
It also has the headlight embrightener switch on the floor.
And no effin' computer chips.
My bullnose and LTL both have the embrightener foot pedal.
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