My Truck is So Gutless...

Post your stories here about how your truck got smoked by a Hyundai, or other stories of your truck's gutlessness.  

My first truck was an '88 Ford Ranger Supercab. It had a 2.3L I-4 (the good single-plug motor) and a five-speed. This truck couldn't get out of its own way with a JATO bottle mounted in the bed!

But as gutless and anemic as the old truck was, it was a great thing to learn driving a stick on. The lack of bottom end torque teached me valuable lessons about feathering the clutch to get the truck moving, and it was a rock solid, reliable truck. My Dad had bought it new in late '88 when the '89s were coming out, after seven years of service with him it went to my brother for about a year and a half, then it came to me with about 145k miles on the clock in late 1997. I drove it my senior year of high school and through most of college.

I sold it to a guy I worked with for $500 when I bought my Silverado. The A/C blew ice cold, the original motor still ran good, no smoking, and it had 207k plus miles on the clock.  

My first truck was a 1991 Toyota 4Runner SR5 4wd with a 150hp V6 engine. It was a great truck, but I think the 0-60 time was somewhere in the 12 second range according to Car and Driver at the time. It had the dubious honor of the being the slowest car 0-60 and worst skid-pad performance for that particular year. But even though it was slow as could be I drove it through every state west of the Mississippi River. I don't think people expected their vehicles to be as fast as nowadays. (My, that made me sound like an old geezer.)

Also, I still see 4runner models of that vintage on the road on a nearly daily basis. So perhaps this is a lesson like that of the tortoise and the hare. Speed does not win the race, stamina does. Also, if I had a 380 hp V8 in that 4Runner at the time I would probably be dead.  

My 1999 S10 is so gutless it makes my '86 Mazda B2000 feel like an upgrade!    

Wow, if an old Mazda makes your truck feel fast, it must be pretty slow!  

I had a '98 dodge dakota v6, it had the power of a four cylinder, but drank gas like an eight. man that thing was a lemon  

i had a 79 chevy 1/2 ton with an inline 6 (250c.i.) and a 3 on the tree talk about gutless i couldnt pass anyone unless i was going down hill with a tail wind  

3 on the tree! Man, I can't remember the last time I saw one of those!    

it was a blast   watchin people wonder what i was doing when i was shifting  everyone thought it was an automatic  

3 on the tree???lmao i aint seen one of those in 20 yrs i learned on a 73 ford with a 390 and 3 on the tree,that was the last one i seen the day it got retired to the bone yard lol