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12 Perfect Small Pickups For Folks With Big Truck Fatigue Small beds, big dreams.

by Ben Keeshin Aug 12, 2016 7:16 PM
If you defined pickup trucks only through contemporary truck commercials, you’d glean this: pickups are massive. That, and driven exclusively by men who use them for work like construction, forestry, cattle ranching, farming, and general mud-slogging. Even the Honda Ridgeline, a very nice truck based on the ultra-demure Honda Pilot pseudo-minivan, ran a Super Bowl ad with a shepherd and a flock of sheep, albeit sheep singing “Queen.” Ain’t no mountain high, valley low, or river wide enough that a high-dollar ad agency won’t send a full-size, mud-splattered Chevy Silverado over or through.
So, while the meek might get the earth eventually, the big, bad, and aggressive are dominating the pickup truck culture wars right now. Today, Chevrolet, GMC, Nissan, and Toyota all sell versions of what were once “small” pickups—now, “midsize,” as the F-150, Titan and Silverado have ballooned. Where’s a small-pickup enthusiast, he or she of the single bag of potting soil, dirty but compact hound, or antique grandfather clock, to turn? The vintage market. Those in search of a truly efficient and small-scale bedded truck have dozens of options, as long as they’re content with Craigslist as a local dealer. Here are our dozen favorite actually compact pickups, from Model T to Jeep Comanche.
Just because the market has left small pickups behind doesn’t mean you have to.
On April 25, 1925, the Ford Motor Company introduced its first pickup truck based, of course, on the Model T. Its full name? The Model T Runabout with Pickup Body. The price? $281, with an electric starter, battery, and demountable tires optional extras. With a small but useful 56-inch long bed, the Model T truck sold almost 34,000 its first year.
Sharing an endearing face with the Datsun 410/411 sedan, the Datsun 520 used a 1.3-liter, 67-horsepower engine to ferry light loads. While later versions came with as much as 95 horsepower and extended beds, we prefer the truly diminutive 1300 original.
Based on the Mazda B-Series Truck, not the Rotary, the Ford Courier was one of the decade’s most successful small trucks. Licensed from Mazda, Ford began selling the Courier in response to unexpected demand for small trucks, especially in California, plus a need to replace the car-based Ranchero. Despite having a $3,000 base price close to that of the full-size Ford F-100, the Courier sold well.
The Rotary Pickup is the world’s first, last, and only Wankel-powered production pickup truck. And while the high-revving, low-torque characteristics of a rotary-engine might seem at odds with the duties of a pickup, contemporary testing found the truck more than adequately powered. While 15,000 trucks were sold over a three-year run, the REPU (Rotary Engined Pickup) was highly susceptible to rust, meaning most good examples now live exclusively on the West Coast.
Besides a wild shape, the Subaru BRAT had several other features found in no other small pickup: all-wheel drive, a T-top roof, and rear-facing seats welded into the bed. A turbocharged engine offered almost 100 horsepower. Also, Ronald Reagan owned one.
Sure, a Golf-based pickup isn’t the most heavy-duty truck in the world—in fact, it might be the least—but with a curb weight under 2,000 pounds, a 62-horsepower engine, and standard Golf suspension, it's efficient and sweet-handling. Smart buyers might try and wrangle a GTI lump into the engine bay.
Somehow, the tiny, Dodge Omni-based Rampage mustered a 1,145-pound load capacity, making the economy car-based pseudo-pickup a “half-ton truck.” In 1983, the transmission was upgraded to a manual five-speed, ensuring reliable, compact-car like driving dynamics.
Not since the Model A had an American manufacturer offered consumers a convertible pickup truck. Then, in 1989, Dodge rolled out the Dakota Convertible, a partnership with the American Sunroof Company. With a roll-bar and a bed for equipment, the convertible ‘Kota rivaled even the venerable Jeep Wrangler as a beach mobile.
The Syclone was one of the weirdest cars of the Nineties. Based on the Sonoma, itself a rebadged Chevrolet S-10, the Syclone used a turbocharged 4.3-liter V6 and all-wheel drive to leap to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds—blazing for a truck, and faster than many contemporary sports cars.
Oh, she’s pretty. The Comanche was a Cherokee-based small truck sold from 1985-1992, sharing parts like the all-wheel-drive system, styling, and, eventually, the famous 4-liter AMC V6. Get the “Eliminator,” a sport trim with excellent decal graphics.
The Toyota Hilux is famous for being one of the world’s most indestructible pickups. In 1989, North America got the model’s arguably best iteration: The Xtracab with the 3-liter V6. That year, it won Motor Trend’s 1989 Truck of the Year. How could you not love a truck so good, but so unpretentiously named?
The Ranger has never been the best small pickup, but if you’re buying used, the model offers a boon: there are thousands and thousands of the things. Later models offered a 200-horsepower V6 and a five-speed, good for all kinds of climbing and light towing. They’re handsome, too, in an anonymous, American way.
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It’s easier to escalate to intimacy when you’re both already nude. Skinny dipping: great for breaking patterns, upping the novelty, and greasing the slide to getting together.
You won't see many men waving their swimsuits around after removing them in public...
Neither of you brought swimsuits because the date was just supposed to be at a café... and this whole trip to the hot tub was an impromptu thing after the date went well? No problem. Just go in in your skins!
That pool that was so crowded by day can often be completely deserted after nightfall...
Keep some bubble bath juice at home if your tub is just a conventional bathtub. This works best if you need to 'wash off' from something dirty -- like a hike, a run on a sandy beach, or getting caught out in the rain. “You scrub my back and I'll scrub yours...”

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Want a fun little way to spice up the endgame of your dates and pickups?
It might sound silly, but skinny dipping (or 'nude swimming') gets you naked with a girl in a seduction location and allows you to skip a whole lot of normal steps in the end stage of a seduction.
It's also exciting for women, and breaks them out of the normal, regular, boring seduction pattern most guys take them through of kiss --> fondle --> undress --> repeat.
Where practical, it can make seductions smoother, for a variety of important (and pleasurable -- for you and her) reasons.
What's good about skinny dipping from a seduction standpoint?
It sexualizes things quick. As soon as clothes are coming off, there is a strong escalation in sexual energy. I have had girls who were pretty neutral to me before we skinny dipped turn quickly aroused once we were in the water naked.
The water acts as a natural cover. You may have heard me talk about escalating under the covers in bed before, especially if you've read How to Make Girls Chase or you own One Date. If so, you recall that (due to psychological reasons) it's much easier to escalate on women under a cover than it is uncovered. Water serves the same function as a cover here, smoothing the path for escalation.
Skinny dipping skirts around her defenses. During escalation, it's helpful to escalate in non-traditional ways if you can. You're more likely to go all the way your first time together if it's on the couch or in the back seat of a car (uncomfortable as it may be) than you are walking her into your bedroom and sitting her on your bed. The reason why is because most/all the men she's been with before walked her into their bedrooms and sat her on their beds and proceeded to escalate on her that way. For that reason, she has automatic defenses built up around on-bed bedroom escalations... but she has none of these for the water. All you get in the water is any true, natural hesitance she has, with none of the learned-defenses picked up from other men that come with more familiar escalation situations.
It's novel and exciting for her. Most women have read romance novels where the characters get intimate in the water. Most women have fantasized about some new lover making love to her in the water. Many have had erotic dreams about this. But you'd be surprised how many women have never done this, even with their boyfriends. When a man is seducing her this way and it is their first time ever together, it is going to tend to be novel for most girls, and exciting for almost all. Even if you've managed to find yourself a girl who's had water hookups before, it's likely to be rare enough for her it'll still excite her.
You have none of the disruptions of undressing. Ever start escalating on a girl, and things are going great, but then you go to take your shirt off or your pants off and she freezes up and stops you? Sometimes this is all it takes to cool the mood off... that short interruption where you stop kissing and touching her and start to undress. She pauses and says, "Uh-oh! Am I sure I'm ready for this?" If you're already naked though, the 'uh-oh' only comes right at the very beginning, when the clothes ALL come off... and then it's past, and the two of you are in the water. Even if she doesn't fully undress herself, if she's in a swimsuit or her underwear, and you are naked, there's very little clothing to remove, and the escalation is subject to far fewer risks and interruptions.
Things skip right to the late stage of escalation. There's a big difference for a woman psychologically between kissing and fondling a man who is fully dressed while she is fully dressed and kissing and fondling a naked man while she is naked or near-naked. There's a lot more arousal in the second scenario, because she is a lot closer to having what can happen occur. Much of the earlier escalation, where you'd need to warm her up and get her ready, you get to skip.
It's memorable. She is never going to forget getting intimate with you in the water like that. She has few or no other memories like it, and will always think back on it.
Of course, there are downsides too, namely that it can be logistically difficult to find somewhere private with water where you can escalate like this, and that, well, sex in the water is simply more difficult (and the water messes with her natural lubrication).
If you can handle that first downside though, the second isn't a major problem: just escalate to intimacy in the water, create some memories, then get out of the water and give her a proper session on dry land.
You can't use skinny dipping as an escalation device in a public pool with a bunch of people around.
You are also not going to pull a from a beach pickup into the ocean and shag her there surrounded by a bunch of people. Well... I guess technically you could. If she's really into you and the people in the waves are spread out enough.
Usually that is not going to be super feasible though.
That said, keep in mind that every woman, just about, fantasizes about exhibitionism, and does so more than men. I don't think I have ever met a woman who wasn't titillated by the idea of being seen having sex with a man in public.
So, if there is a way to do things without running afoul of the law, or getting harassed/attacked by others, it might still be viable.
I once went skinny dipping with a girl in an apartment complex pool after hours. We had to climb a tall fence to get in. Well, at some point security heard us splashing about and came to kick us out. We nearly had the police called on us.
I'm not sure if the security was more surprised some kids had broken into the pool, or by the skinny dipping. It's definitely the only time in my life anyone has ever told me "I saw your junk, man!"
You need to find somewhere isolated, and you obviously want to minimize the chance you get 'caught'. Where can you go for that? There are a few different options, and all can be quite good.
Indoor skinny dipping is typically the safest bet, in terms of you having control of the environment and not having to worry about disruptions. Of course, it's less exciting than your outdoor options. Indoor options for skinny dipping include:
Hot tub/Jacuzzi rentals. Some cities have private hot tub / Jacuzzi rentals, where you're not renting a hotel room, but just a room with a hot tub in it. Often these are hourly.
Hotel with a hot tub. If there are no hot tub rental places around you, you can also just rent a hotel room with a hot tub in it. Sometimes you can find these for hourly too.
Private saunas. Many cities offer private saunas you can rent. Often if you search for 'private sauna' online you will have an easier time finding both private saunas and private hot tubs than if you search for 'hot tub rental' (which often turns up companies that will literally rent you a hot tub for use in your backyard or wherever). Some of these private saunas can be quite classy looking. You may want to check them out beforehand to make sure they're really 'private' though -- you don't want an attendant coming in to pour some more water on the hot rocks behind you while you're in the throes of passion with your girl.
Hotel pools after hours. If you go to a hotel pool late (and it is open, and not closed... and there isn't a lifeguard), you can often be the only people there. Obviously this is less risky on a weeknight than a weekend night, when you're liable to have parties of drunk revelers suddenly show up for a 3 AM dip in the pool.
Your own hot tub (or even bathtub). If you chose your bachelor pad well, it may already come equipped with its own hot tub. If so, mission accomplished. All you need to do is pull her to your place for a hot tub adventure at the end of the date. If you don't have a hot tub, sometimes you can get away with using a simple bathtub instead: "Well, I really wanted us to do a hot tub, but all the hot tub places are closed right now. So you know what I am going to do, I'm going to let the hot water run for a bit, get it really steamy in there, and we'll get a nice hot bath going and make that our hot tub." One pro for that is in a tight bathtub she is not really going to have anywhere else to sit other than on your lap. If you've never had bathtub sex, let me tell you, this can be really hot (water in the bathtub is often shallow enough that if you get her in doggystyle, her rump is going to be raised up out of the water, so you are not actually dealing with all the water-lubrication issues, meanwhile her legs and hands are still in the water and you are still going to be splashing about. Use a bathtub mat so your knees aren't getting bruised on the bathtub floor though).
Where you can make the plunge impromptu , it is fairly easy to justify skinny dipping. You didn't 'plan' to be in the water, so of course you didn't bring a bathing suit (and neither did she). Further, you don't want to get your underwear all soaked then be wearing wet underwear under your clothes later. So it's all coming off.
Some girls will agree with this logic and take their underwear off too. Some will insist on keeping it on. It's not that big a deal. Once they're aroused enough it'll co
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