Got my truck in 1982. National speed limit was 55 for the first six years I had the truck. Obviously made it a little easier to run 4.11 which I didn't swap for 3.55 until 2000.
Two memorable drives in those early days. First was 100 miles down to Huntsville, AL to take the air traffic controllers exam, on which I scored just a couple points too low to be considered for job offer. Not that far, but something about going somewhere you've never been to do something you've never done made it adventurous. Then during Christmas break (from college) in 1985 drove 135 miles down I-24 to Cleveland, TN to visit a girlfriend and her family for a few days.
Have much respect for anyone who uses one of these trucks as a daily driver out of necessity. That was me back then.
Oh, and this isn't a distance thing but it was also that winter of '84-'85 we had a cold spell, daytime high -7 if I recall, in my hometown of Centerville, TN. Dad's car wouldn't start, and our neighbor couldn't start his either. But Shelley fired right up.
She'd been converted to 12V but still...showed those modern cars who's boss.
