Or, you could use this as a rear-facing jumpseat for the kiddies. Just like the large family wagons of the 1970s, with an added element of excitement and adventure...
Now do I think my 13 year old dog with cataracts can see that damn step to get in the bed of the truck? No effin' way. Still sounds like better odds than me trying to pick his 80 lb. ass up onto the tailgate and not getting bit in the process.
This accessory definitely makes you your truck's bitch.
Graverobber, look a little closer. Not a bitch step at all.
Of course, this is a solution for trucks that are set too damn high, for no good reason, to begin with. Maybe fiver percent of pickemup buyers really need all that ground clearance and tall tires. I'm not sure I ever had a construction task that a half ton truck didn't manage adequately. And if I did, I needed a whole other class of truck.
"MAN STEP" you say? Maybe Jalopnik should cross post this Truck 'N Buddy thingy with Jezebel and rename it the "Empowerment Step", or the "Liberated Step"
@Ash78: Or maybe something like "Reach for the Stars Roof" or
"Vitamin 'D' Enriched Roof".
...but if I can actually be taken seriously here, I sincerely hope Ford isn't approving of GM naming their contraption the "Man Step". To me that says only men are to dumb to know how to get out of a pickup bed without getting a booboo.
Do you see what not offering a ute in the US has led to? Old, 300 lb. men who want the functionality of a truck but can't get themselves in the bed with out assisting devices are emasculating themselves.
Think of the geriatric lardasses and give us the G8 Ute!
I carry seventeen cinder-blocks in the back of my truck just for this reason. When I have to climb up into the bed of the truck, I quickly assemble a staircase out of the cinder-blocks. I used to carry an ice-pick and pierce my tires to lower the bed height, but this is just so much more practical.
I simply unbolt the bed, sit it on the ground, load the bed, put it back on the truck, and go back to working 38 odd hours and the mill for six pence a week, and when I get home my mum and dad would beat us to sleep with a broken bottle.
@JCWhitless - Honda killed the S2000 to afford to advertise ...: Yeah, that and walking uphill both ways, in the snow, on my way to school. And lest I forget, we had to go to the library in order to research a topic. Kids nowadays just pull their ignorance straight from the web.
@leavethegun-takethecannoli: You could just have gotten a lower truck... I always laugh at the guys at the dump climbing into their truck beds, my El Camino is truck enough for me.
@☠Grяrяrяrяrяrяrя's double-fried chocolate Moon Pie and rabi...: Hrumph, we would dream of diggin' holes with those flat little spoons. We'd have to use the broken off legs of grasshoppers held in our teeth, all the while neighborhood kids took turns throwin' bricks at our heads.
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@Saboth: Dude, you gotta' dog that can use a hand rail, I'd like to see it.
BTW; that retriever does appear to be a male, and the height of the step looks to be perfect for keeping his lipstick from getting snubbed on the lip of the liftgate. That was very considerate, dontcha think?
Everybody needs a pickup truck. Sooner or later, everyone needs a pickup truck.
I was in a new (last year) big red SuperDuty with all the options and I was just amazed. I wasn't crazy about having to swing up into it like an orangutan, I'm not that tall, but for comfort and ride it was a marvel. On the other hand, the old ones--well, good luck using the gas tank as a back support and there's no real whiplash because the back of your skull will just continue through that glass. Back then, of course, we didn't know any better.
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Buddy proceeds to rip Howie's fucking face off, open the passenger door of his Chevy, drag Lois Lane out and fuck her Buddy-style.
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He asks nice but he still proceeds to rip his fucking face off.
Andy fucks her...
I still don't understand how he ripped his fucking face off tho..
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Jalops banging a bit above our station in our new-found promiscuousness, eh?
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Graverobber, look a little closer. Not a bitch step at all.
Of course, this is a solution for trucks that are set too damn high, for no good reason, to begin with. Maybe fiver percent of pickemup buyers really need all that ground clearance and tall tires. I'm not sure I ever had a construction task that a half ton truck didn't manage adequately. And if I did, I needed a whole other class of truck.
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The installation instructions clearly spell out how this fine item installs with four average sized 3/4" screws.
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"Vitamin 'D' Enriched Roof".
...but if I can actually be taken seriously here, I sincerely hope Ford isn't approving of GM naming their contraption the "Man Step". To me that says only men are to dumb to know how to get out of a pickup bed without getting a booboo.
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Do you see what not offering a ute in the US has led to? Old, 300 lb. men who want the functionality of a truck but can't get themselves in the bed with out assisting devices are emasculating themselves.
Think of the geriatric lardasses and give us the G8 Ute!
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I simply unbolt the bed, sit it on the ground, load the bed, put it back on the truck, and go back to working 38 odd hours and the mill for six pence a week, and when I get home my mum and dad would beat us to sleep with a broken bottle.
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I used to unbolt the bed, I've gotten lazy. I'm not a poofter though, that would be horrible. I'm more of a sissy.
/that's about as much as my self-deprecating sense of humor allows.
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I also gives your dog easier access to hump your tailgate.
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Actually I'd say this is the manlier of the 2. The Ford one comes with a built in "Cane". What's next, a handrail?
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BTW; that retriever does appear to be a male, and the height of the step looks to be perfect for keeping his lipstick from getting snubbed on the lip of the liftgate. That was very considerate, dontcha think?
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I was in a new (last year) big red SuperDuty with all the options and I was just amazed. I wasn't crazy about having to swing up into it like an orangutan, I'm not that tall, but for comfort and ride it was a marvel. On the other hand, the old ones--well, good luck using the gas tank as a back support and there's no real whiplash because the back of your skull will just continue through that glass. Back then, of course, we didn't know any better.