Looking for a 1500 long box...

[Ed F]

Hi, Guys. Does anyone know a site or a way to look for a specific truck nationwide? I’m looking for a new Classic or possibly 2020 1500 crew cab with a Hemi, 4x4 and a 6’4” box. I know these trucks are like hens teeth. Every site I’ve seen does not allow a filter for the box size. I’m tired of looking at countless dealers and nothing but short boxes. Dealers around me will look about 50 miles away and that’s it. I don’t care how far I go, I’m retired and love road trips. Cars.com doesn’t do it BTW.

 

[Ohio5pt7]

Autotrader has a bed length filter

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[RStrain56]

When I was perusing Car Guru earlier, most of the listings there had the long bed listings with LB in the listing title, or no designation if it were a short bed. Also, these showed up this way with no particular filter options selected on my part for it. Might wanna check there as well and see if that makes it easier.

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[KeithP]

When I was perusing Car Guru earlier, most of the listings there had the long bed listings with LB in the listing title, or no designation if it were a short bed. Also, these showed up this way with no particular filter options selected on my part for it. Might wanna check there as well and see if that makes it easier.

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Remember when “long bed” meant 8’ long and “shot bed” meant 6’ long and a crew cab was a special order oddity.

 

[Papa Red]

Build the truck you want on the Ram build page and at the bottom of the page is a link for getting a quote or to find this truck. It will check dealer stock.

Red

 

[STOKED]

I found my 6'4 at Port City Dodge in Portsmouth, NH. I seem to remember them having several with a 6'4 bed.

 

[STOKED]

Here's a few

https://www.portcitychryslerdodge.c...mouth-NH-055de8840a0e0adf06adc20edf528a10.htm

https://www.portcitychryslerdodge.c...mouth-NH-91af8c710a0e0a6b10e26e5109a39497.htm

https://www.portcitychryslerdodge.c...mouth-NH-1b3da1c90a0e0ae84bdff406c0fed9e1.htm

 

[corneileous]

Hi, Guys. Does anyone know a site or a way to look for a specific truck nationwide? I’m looking for a new Classic or possibly 2020 1500 crew cab with a Hemi, 4x4 and a 6’4” box. I know these trucks are like hens teeth. Every site I’ve seen does not allow a filter for the box size. I’m tired of looking at countless dealers and nothing but short boxes. Dealers around me will look about 50 miles away and that’s it. I don’t care how far I go, I’m retired and love road trips. Cars.com doesn’t do it BTW.

One thing you could do- the same thing I had to do back when I was looking for my brand new 2018 ram 1500, was use ramtrucks.com to build your truck to your liking, then use the built-in search engine after that that ram trucks has on their website and I think you can search for up to 150 miles to see what trucks are already out there on the dealership lots that fit the description of what you pieced together. That’s how I found my truck. Mine, since I was wanting a brand new limited, I had to settle for what was already pre-made in hopes of finding what I would’ve special ordered because I believe it was back in late October 2017 when the only new fourth-gens ram was still producing was the tradesmen up to I believe it was the Laramies because they were focusing all their other attention on the brand new 2019 body style.

But anywho, just for grins and giggles, I decided to do what you asked for on Rams site; found an exact 2020 4 x 4 with 6 foot-four box and crew cab, over at Autostar Chrysler Dodge Jeep and Ram of Hendersonville that’s about 14 and a half miles away from zip code 28750 for $52280 msrp on the site.

I’m not sure if you’re wanting a Tradesman, Bighorn, Laramie, what but this down below was one of 58 exact matches that their site found of just the customized features I put in of just knowing that you wanted a halfton with 4 x 4, the non-Etorque Hemi- which I’m not sure if you want that or not, and the 6 foot 4 bed.

The search engine will give you exact matches if they’re are any and if you look up at the upper right it’ll tell you there’s like 2600 partial matches, you’ll just have to look at that and see which trucks are out there that closely fit what you want as you can see within a 150 mile radius. But what I chose for you was just extremely basic, didn’t even care what color it was and that was just one of 56 exact matches. The more options and the more customization you may do, you may not find one that’s an exact match but hopefully it’ll get you awful close.

 

[corneileous]

Remember when “long bed” meant 8’ long and “shot bed” meant 6’ long and a crew cab was a special order oddity.

Yep, but that was back when hardly anybody wanted trucks for casual use. Back in those days, people used pick ups to work with, while all they pretty much had was standard cabs, some extended cabs, with long beds or short beds.

Halftons have transformed into luxury grocery getters and travelers. It is what it is, man. More people want what I said above, not what they started out to be in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s.


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[STOKED]

To be fair, I believe they're calling the 6'4 a mid bed. The 8' is still the long bed and 5'7 a short bed.

 

[Ed F]

Hey, Guys. Thanks to all for some great info. I’ll be searching today. I think I’m in an enviable spot. I’ve been mentioning the things I’d like my Express to have and my wife says why don’t you just go buy a new truck?

 

[corneileous]

I think the 2019 and 2020 classic is out because even within 150 mile radius of your zip, All I could find that had the longer bed was the Quad cabs. But, it might be a stretch but one of the things you could do is go to your local dealer and they can search all over the country to try to find what you want.


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[corneileous]

Hey, Guys. Thanks to all for some great info. I’ll be searching today. I think I’m in an enviable spot. I’ve been mentioning the things I’d like my Express to have and my wife says why don’t you just go buy a new truck?

I had to go up and edit my post above because I had forgot that even though you just built a truck to your exact specifications what you were looking for, you still have to, once you click on the link that tells the site to find other trucks on dealership lots, you have to click on the “filter results” button to make sure that the only things you have highlighted on there, is specific to what options you’re looking for or else it won’t look for it. I didn’t care about color or any other options, I just made sure that I had crew cab, 4 x 4 and 6 foot-four bed highlighted as exact matches and that’s what it found.


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[Ed F]

I think the 2019 and 2020 classic is out because even within 150 mile radius of your zip, All I could find that had the longer bed was the Quad cabs. But, it might be a stretch but one of the things you could do is go to your local dealer and they can search all over the country to try to find what you want.

I’ve asked a few dealers for a search and they’re only willing to look about 150 miles. As far as the whole country they couldn’t make a deal on a truck 1500 miles away because of transportation costs. I dealt with a Ford dealer last year on a 150 they found somewhere that was almost my ideal truck. They obviously wouldn’t tell me where it was and would only get the truck if I signed a deal for it first. I’m not going to buy a truck sight unseen no matter how bad I want it.
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[Ed F]

I had to go up and edit my post above because I had forgot that even though you just built a truck to your exact specifications what you were looking for, you still have to, once you click on the link that tells the site to find other trucks on dealership lots, you have to click on the “filter results” button to make sure that the only things you have highlighted on there, is specific to what options you’re looking for or else it won’t look for it. I didn’t care about color or any other options, I just made sure that I had crew cab, 4 x 4 and 6 foot-four bed highlighted as exact matches and that’s what it found.


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[Ed F]

Sorry for the reply screwup. I just looked at the Ram truck site and I remembered why I didn’t like it 6 months ago. When I search for a truck and find something close I open the details on that truck. When I go back to the main search page it resets everything to zero and I have to reenter all the filters again to see more trucks. Way too frustrating. I use an iPad for my searches so maybe that’s the issue?

 

[Ed F]

I think the 2019 and 2020 classic is out because even within 150 mile radius of your zip, All I could find that had the longer bed was the Quad cabs. But, it might be a stretch but one of the things you could do is go to your local dealer and they can search all over the country to try to find what you want.

You’re right. Almost all long bed trucks are quad cabs which is what I have now. The few crew cab long beds out there are stripped Tradesmans or diesels.

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[Ed F]

Remember when “long bed” meant 8’ long and “shot bed” meant 6’ long and a crew cab was a special order oddity.

I remember a friend of mine bought a ‘78 crew cab long bed GMC to put a camper on and we all thought he was out there...

 

[Ed F]

I’m between Greenville/Spartanburg and Charlotte. Not exactly Mayberry but not a lot of choices here. For my last 2 trucks I flew to Dallas/Ft. Worth, rented a car and drove around for 3 days looking at rigs in what I consider the truck capitol of the country. If things weren’t so screwed up right now I’d be on a plane tomorrow.

 

[corneileous]

I’ve asked a few dealers for a search and they’re only willing to look about 150 miles. As far as the whole country they couldn’t make a deal on a truck 1500 miles away because of transportation costs. I dealt with a Ford dealer last year on a 150 they found somewhere that was almost my ideal truck. They obviously wouldn’t tell me where it was and would only get the truck if I signed a deal for it first. I’m not going to buy a truck sight unseen no matter how bad I want it.

That’s odd because the only reason why I even know about that is because that’s what my local dealer told me, is that you’re limited on how far you can search on Rams website but if you go to a dealer, they can search a lot further away. Now as far as whether or not if it’s nationwide, I don’t remember but I do know that my dealer was able to search a whole lot further away from just the 150 mile radius that they allow you on the site.

But another thing, the dealer you talked to is probably just telling you all that because the one thing you’ll have for your advantage that I didn’t have, is that for a very long time yet to come, you’ll be able to special order completely whatever you want. So that might be what he’s pushing for is to instead of looking on another dealer lot, he may just be wanting you to special order whatever it is that you want because like I said, there was no way that I could special order what I wanted because they quit making them at time. I was forced to having to settle with something that was already on a lot somewhere and I got lucky because I was able to find almost exactly what I wanted. It was the same color, but it didn’t have tow hooks, it didn’t have the chrome nerf bars on the side and it didn’t have the locking wheel nuts which was all easy to add later on, and it was only about an hour and a half away and of course I had to pay for the transportation to get it down there but I still got the truck I would’ve special ordered.


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