Manliest truck?
Well, the manliest truck I've ever driven was a 1951 Dodge M37. The steering is so hard that the g/f literally cannot turn the wheel if it's moving under 10 MPH, and she's a softball player, so she's got a good set of arms. None of the gears are synchronized, the clutch throw is a foot and a half long, it's got a flathead dodge sixer that is completely waterproof (my military officer said that with the snorkel kit, you'd drown the driver before you'd drown the truck), and if you don't start it JUST right, you get gas in the oil, and it won't start for anything, so you have to drain the oil, new spark plugs, new oil filter, then *maybe* it'll start. Besides, how cool is it to have the ignition button be a pedal just over the accelerator pedal? SWEET! That truck is literally one where one foot is on the gas, the other is on the clutch, one hand is on the steering wheel (unless you're turning it...ack.) and the other is on the shifter (which, might I add is 2-1/2 feet long
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Oh yeah, did I mention that I pull-started a deuce and a half with one of them once? THAT was fun - floor it, slip the clutch to get it going, hit 2nd reeealy quick (well, as fast as you can hit an unsynchronized 2nd) and keep it going up to about 20 mph. then you feel this jerk that feels like it's going to rip the frame out from under it, and then it gets real easy and you hear the turbocharged multifuel in that big kaiser whining along behind you.
