I think we need to steal the “when men were men” language from the fascists and start saying it about trucks. Modern pickups, with their little built-in stairs that are necessary to access the chest-high beds, are no longer trucks — they’re not built to haul nor to do work, they’re not built for purpose. Modern trucks are symbols, caricatures of what trucks once meant, but have actually ceded all functional ground to vans.
This Nissan 720, though, is a truck. Sure, the bed’s short, but are you telling me you wouldn’t be able to find a way to get 4×8 sheets of plywood home in it? Will you stand there and say that an equally short bed, on a pickup two feet taller, would be an improvement? No. This Nissan is from when trucks were trucks.
