Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet Trucks

Idle Thoughts Ask any ten people to name the most historically significant American vehicles and you’ll probably get about the same answers from each one: Jeep CJ, Tucker Torpedo, Chevy Corvette and maybe the ’57 Bel Air. Conventional wisdom would never choose a pickup truck as one of the most important vehicles of all time. But here’s the thing – the conventional wisdom is wrong. The pickup truck, much more than the passenger car, built America in the 20th century. From the simple finish-it-yourself Chevrolet trucks first sold to the public in 1918 to the latest Silverado crew cab with