Confused Chevy Transforms into Super Duty Platinum Edition…Sorta
Chevy Silverado owner slaps on tailgate insert of Ford F-150 Platinum, and he didn’t even bother to fit it properly.
The minds of some truck owners truly astounds us here at Ford Truck Enthusiasts. We’re not talking about Ford truck owners, either, but everyone else who decided that the Blue Oval was not their truck of choice. To each their own, we guess, but how can anyone deny the best-selling truck of all time, the F-150, let alone all of the Ford truck and SUV family?
Things truly get weird, though, when a given truck owner comes to regret their choices in life, but won’t go all the way by buying a Ford. Case in point: a photo posted on Reddit of a sad (in more ways than one) Chevy Silverado owner grafting on the tailgate insert of a Ford F-250 Platinum onto his Texas Edition, creating what we like to call the ‘Chevy Silverado F-250 Platinum Texas Super Duty Stupid Edition.’
As Redditor MyMomSaysIAmCool says, the sad Silverado owner wanted to make their truck extra special by adding “a Ford F-150’s ‘Platinum’ badge to it,” even though the F-150’s Platinum tailgate panel has, for the lack of a better word, fangs dipping down into the lower section of the tailgate, while the Super Duty Platinum panel is a perfect long rectangle.
And yet, despite such a perfect shape, Redditor ScoobyDooo82 points out that the panel “doesn’t even fit properly!” Another Redditor adds that it’s not a sad Silverado, but “one of the 2021 GMC Silverado Platinum Pre-Runner Z71 LTZ concept vehicles” out testing “how much junk it can haul.”
“Would it be that hard to have a machinist stamp a custom label on a metal strip and cut it to fit the tailgate?” asked Redditor Another_GM_Victim. Probably, but it would have been better just to buy an F-150 Platinum instead. They’ll figure it out one day.
Photos: Reddit, Ford
