So I felt like the king of my town tonight

[Ruger]

It's absolutely routine. Same kind of thing happened to me yesterday on my way into work. I work on an Army post, and the gate guard wanted to talk about my truck. There wasn't any inbound traffic to speak of on a Saturday, so we talked for a bit. His buddy came out of the guard house, so I had both of them there. As I was about to leave I asked if they wanted "a little demonstration." They said, "Sure!" I'm probably the only guy to leave burnout marks in an entry lane at the guard house of the post.

I've given my "Ford Raptor Briefing" in the parking lot on post, in department store parking lots, in apartment parking lots. One time I got pulled over by an Army police woman for leaving the post at an excessive rate of speed. I gave her the briefing and she only wrote me a warning instead of a ticket.

Have fun with it! Raise the hood, show them the 16 spark plugs and make the point that you can see and touch every one, show them how much space there is between the front of the engine and the radiator so that it's easy to change the belt, and show them how accessable the fuse box and the air filter are. I end my briefing with, "You can fix this truck ANYWHERE."

 

[whtrapta]

That gap between the radiator and motor is because the raptors use electric fans vs a belt driven one like the other trucks

 

[MiloX]

Woah... I think I need "the briefing". No ****.

 

[Steve-O]

it happens to the best of us. everywhere i go, people ask about. i got stopped going out of the gate of my base for a "random" vehicle search. they locked eyes on my truck as soon as i came around the corner, then pulled me over when i got up to them. its kinda funny when people almost break their necks goin down the road.

 

[tikicult]

Yesterday, I was at the store loading up the bed with some furniture and I had a worker say to me that he was glad to see someone using "that thing" like a real truck since it was really, really dirty.

Then, not even 30 minutes later, I got a huge jaw drop and point from some 16 or 17 year old kid. He was in shock that he was seeing a Raptor in person.

 

[Raptoyd11]

Yep happens all the time usually followed by the famous " What kind of gas mileage do you get? after you tell them they leave and get back in their honda and drive away.

 

[Aaron]

Yep, get used to it. I've had all types of interactions with people over this truck. None of them really negative so far though other than one I'll mention in a second.

I helped a kid win a bet one night at Burger King, he had bet his friend a few days before that the Raptor had upgraded suspension from the F150 and his friend said that it was just a regular F150 with bigger tires and new sheet metal. Not sure how much he won, but it was pretty funny.

Watch out for the negative side too...I know I've told this story a few times on here but it bears repeating I think. My wife was driving home on the freeway in it one time and a kid beside her was trying to take a picture of the truck with his camera phone and would have side-swiped her doing 75 were it not for her seeing it happen and being ready to move out of the way.

 

[MiloX]

I'm gonna transfer a few posts over to the other thread and clean this up for ya, Milo

Thanks for looking at it Bo.

 

[Humvee21]

Bojangles finally looked at it

 

[DEADEYE]

Would ya just look at that...

well ...would ya just look at that , look at it , just look at it.

You should get used to it . I have people videoing my truck while driving down the road , lots of pics, the race to get up next to you , oh then you have those that wanna mess with you and prove their 2000 bow tie and run just as good , but the latter has not been happening near as much lately . I believe the diehard brand loyalist have just acknowledged how nice a job FORD has done with this truck. I have never seen so many guys cross the isle if you will .
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