Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Flight Service wrote:

Nick_Comstock wrote: PROUD to be from a Chevy state, ASHAMED to be living in a Ford state.

Sorry dude...

Not to poo on Ford (my Explorer is one of the best vehicles I’ve ever owner) but separating the Sierra and Silverado into separate categories seems ridiculous to me.

Aren’t they only differentiated by their badges…am I missing something???

mthomson22 wrote: I wish to know where i can still buy this.

T.J. wrote: At the dragon.

A h, so those would be the people who aren't in this picture.

etifosi wrote:

Interesting. I had to look that one up.

Brooklyn's link to the Red Baron

fasted58 wrote:

You know, I used to think COEs looked silly.

This reinforces that.

RX Reven' wrote: Not to poo on Ford (my Explorer is one of the best vehicles I’ve ever owner) but separating the Sierra and Silverado into separate categories seems ridiculous to me. Aren’t they only differentiated by their badges…am I missing something???

The idea is that Chevy is the barrel-scraper marque and GMCs are more upmarket. GMCs were sold at Pontiac, Buick, and Olds dealerships that wanted a truck line. (Maybe Cadillac too) This was, of course, before the country collectively lost its sense of style and decided that trucks were awesome instead of just farm equipment, so every marque got its own line of trucks for some dang reason.

Silverados and Sierras are separated. I am sure that F-series and Lincoln Blackwoods are separate, too.

Knurled wrote:

RX Reven' wrote: Not to poo on Ford (my Explorer is one of the best vehicles I’ve ever owner) but separating the Sierra and Silverado into separate categories seems ridiculous to me. Aren’t they only differentiated by their badges…am I missing something???

The idea is that Chevy is the barrel-scraper marque and GMCs are more upmarket. GMCs were sold at Pontiac, Buick, and Olds dealerships that wanted a truck line. (Maybe Cadillac too) This was, of course, before the country collectively lost its sense of style and decided that trucks were awesome instead of just farm equipment, so every marque got its own line of trucks for some dang reason. Silverados and Sierras are separated. I am sure that F-series and Lincoln Blackwoods are separate, too.

Good grief, from beginning “engineering” to end “adding share holder value” they’re the same truck. Only a few ounces of badging out of over two tons of material are different - whoop dee fricken doo.

Whatever, I’m not interested in either until I can have a manual transmission and a bed that is no higher than my Johnson.

Knurled wrote:

RX Reven' wrote: Not to poo on Ford (my Explorer is one of the best vehicles I’ve ever owner) but separating the Sierra and Silverado into separate categories seems ridiculous to me. Aren’t they only differentiated by their badges…am I missing something???

The idea is that Chevy is the barrel-scraper marque and GMCs are more upmarket. GMCs were sold at Pontiac, Buick, and Olds dealerships that wanted a truck line. (Maybe Cadillac too) This was, of course, before the country collectively lost its sense of style and decided that trucks were awesome instead of just farm equipment, so every marque got its own line of trucks for some dang reason. Silverados and Sierras are separated. I am sure that F-series and Lincoln Blackwoods are separate, too.

but Lincoln Blackwoods wouldn't add anything more than statistical noise to the graft, whereas the GMC added to the Silverado would change the graft pretty significantly

edit: forgot my hotlink

Spoolpigeon wrote:

Motorcycle chariots celebrating New South Wales police, Australia, 1936

207 mph, this day in 1928.

The want is strong with this one.

Oh my, I may need a moment

Oh dear oh dear

This is hard for me.