The White Truck
Everybody needs to own a white truck at some point in their life. Mind you, when I say white truck, I’m not talking about the color. I couldn’t give a rat turd about that. I’m talking about the lowestoptioned, barest-boned, utterly utilitarian beast you can buy. It’s gotta have a purposeful drivetrain, zero amenities, and tank-like reliability. In short, a fleet service vehicle. Almost every one I’ve seen with zero punches on the option card has been sprayed white from the factory, so I’ve always called ’em white trucks, no matter what color they’re actually painted. I owned an almost-white truck once. The paint was white, so by my bent logic, it was a white almost-white truck. Mine was an ’89 F-250 4x4 Lariat. It had a fuel-injected 460ci engine, C6…
