It's Your Turn Now!
OK, I'm probably just as tired as most of you are hearing me babble on, month after month, about this and that. While it's physically impossible to engage in any type of back and forth communication in this manner, I would like to pose some questions to y'all and get some serious feedback. You know, it's been over a year and a half now-things have quieted down, almost to the point where I feel comfortable holding the reigns of this here publication...we need to do something about that!
Not to kick a dead dog while it's sleeping or anything, but it seems like we've finally eclipsed the whole "late-model" debate thing...well, for the most part. Every blue moon, I'll get a heated e-mail about the controversial move toward the future, but what's more important, I regularly get e-mails from people saying how much they appreciate the inclusion of the new trucks. It appears we've somehow filled a magazine "void" for truck lovers needing a '67-and-later fix. Ironically, since I took over, there has only been one-yes, one-truck newer than '72 featured in the magazine. Of course, we did put one-yes, one-post-'72 pickup on the cover...it was a drop-in featuring a late-model C-10 from SEMA. Of course, there have been a number of random trucks shown from event coverage, but when you get down to the nitty and the gritty, you can count the number of late-models featured on one finger. Now, the technical aspect-that being the how-to's and whatnot-well, that's a different story. My defense has always been, at least from the Chevy standpoint, is that 90-perecent of that type of tech can apply or directly relates to the earlier models, as well. At any rate, what I was really getting at was, what's the current general consensus on the topic? Any arguments stating we run too many "new" trucks will automatically be disqualified based on the facts listed above, but I'll definitely entertain comments about the tech ratios.