My new dream truck

I had to share this with the guys. We have been building these at Ford Dearborn Truck Plant this year. They are not only awsome to see but awesome to drive.

What guy wouldn't want this truck on steroids! Ford is just introducing this thing for us have to have to biggest baddest toy boys:

Ford F 150 Raptor



http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=135146#9


Nick

Nick I hate you! j/k

I like the truck, I love it. Looks like a trophy truck.  Needs more ground clearance though , I'd hate to be picking FL bugs out that grill. 

I tow so I will never have something like that. :(  So I will be keeping my F350 Dually.  When all goes well with this surg. i am getting something with no top, fast and 5 speed. I have one space left in the garage for it. 

It is 6" higher than my F150 FX4 offroad and 7 inches wider wheel base. I don't think we could get government approval to vin a pick up truck any higher off the assembly line. Is that a 44 Super Readhawlk? If so I boar hunt with one and it is an awesome handgun.  Oh Yeah, the 2010 raptor hauls 3000 lbs and tows 11,800.
Nick

Yes sir it is a Super Redhawk 44.  I bought mine to go boar hunting too, lol just never been yet.  In FL there are other things after you in the woods, Gators, rattle snakes, bears, bob cats, panthers, coyotes and the mysterious Fl skunk ape.  I do take it fishing.

11,800 not bad, but I need that gooseneck option.  How much will it be, you know?

Gators are slow on land! You only need to worry about them in the water don't you? Where I hunt, at my ranch in Wyoming, we have rattle snakes (shot 3 in camp last September , including one my hunting partner almost stepped on leaving my cabin). We also have coyotes they are nothing next to the wolves there now. There are bobcats, mountain loins, and bakers (mean little buggers that they are).
     Oh and bears - you don't fret about those little black bears do you? Last fall I measured a brown bear track (grizzle) at 18 inches making that one big bear! So I keep my Super Red-hawk 44 at my side at all times there. I keep a 45 auto as a back up out there as well. Now the guys in Alaska might need something even bigger and badder. 
     If your ever looking for another guy for a boar hunt or want to put a hunt group together let me know. I hunt boar atleast once a year.
Nick

A gator can catch a man running. In short distances and on a empty belly.  Black bears, i have seen them in here in FL. They are out for food, looking in trash bins, not scarry to me. I dont want to meet a brown bear noooo way.

The people that i knew that wanted to go boar hunting have moved out of state. The people i meet that say they hunt I wouldn't trust with a potatoe gun.

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looks great.  I'e been emailing ford with ideas for a dream truck.  We need an onboard 4000w generator -somewhere in the engine well.  The tech is out there- saw one in South Africa, along with a 7 ton winch - both for under $1200. fords cost installed. collapsable cab based ladder racks. Strap hooks, slide out false beds for long loads and ramp needs. Not after market - factory installed.  Put it all together for under 35K and it will sell
These are things I see in work areas in other countries on nissans, toyotas and rovers.
Maybe US workers would like these extras if the can finance them
Oh yes - drop the paint - looks like an urban cowboy truck

Ford USA would get sued if they installed a winch on a truck.  I dont know how but the first person to use it would prolly kill themselves or someone else with it.  The generator I could use like when at the race track or a good ol FL hurricane.

I used to have a hose reel on my truck and onboard air so I could fill all my tires on my trailer and use air tools.  All was frame mounted and hidden under the truck.  I am going to install a larger ac/dc converter though.

Now If it were cowboy then it would be two tone and have running boards. lol 

I am sure that liabilities are the reasons winches are not a factory option on our trucks, but I have a generator add on on my F150 FX4. It is an aftermarket but I will pass your suggestions on to the new truck vehicle build team.

Nick