Is this package a goner?

 

My dodge salesman friend text me and said no, it is no longer a package that he is AWARE of. He has not seen any such package on dealer lots and he has better access than we do. Funny, he took a dealer swap several years ago and it was 2008 3/4 SC. It had a hemi, vinyl floor, 4.10 gears, clearance lamps, skid plates and for some reason smaller tires(plowing?). He called me and let me take it overnight. It was brown with a snow chief badge. I think the SC package was around $800 if I am not mistaken. This one had cruise and a bed liner thrown in but that was it. I thought it ran great. It was bare bones and looked stripped but seemed rugged riding in the thing. It must have been a not to mass produced package, other that the one I drove several years ago I have not seen another one in person or online used vehicle searches.

 

Pretty sure it is dead... basically was just a sticker and a snow plow prep package anyway...

http://www.letstalksnow.com/forums/a...7&d=1205784777
http://www.letstalksnow.com/forums/a...5&d=1205784738

 

Yep, that's it frog. You are 100% right is was just bascially a snow plow prep package. My dealer friend said the same thing, they did throw in a few things that did make it cool I thought. I liked the SC sticker if you can believe that. Frog, I see you have a Raptor? I looked at a couple on dealer lots locally around my area. They look like quite a truck with alot of goodies!!!! Do you like yours? I wish they made a regular cab, the ext. cab makes it a huge F-150 on steroids. They are not cheap huh?

 

I no longer have a raptor, it and my G8 got trashed in a hailstorm... I now have a 2011 Ram 1500 sport QC 4x4. The Raptor rode better than the Ram does, tranny was better as was the voice recognition and bluetooth. It was way better off road and lived up to advertising blasting across the sand. On the other hand the payload and towing on the raptor sucked, the interior was not as good and the gas mileage was horrible. Love the Ram, miss the Raptor.

Because I ordered my truck and got it with exactly the options I wanted I was able to get the Raptor for 750 over invoice whilst the ones on the lot were selling for 5K over sticker. I bought the 5.4 extended cab which is built on a unique frame not share with any other pickup and which is several inches shorter than any other extended cab (and crew) on the market. Between getting the smaller frame and the smaller truck it stickered for less than my Ram and I got it out the door for thousands less than the ram (37K ish). I ended up trading it in for 35K over a year later with the hail damage.

 

That really is interesting!!!! I did not know the ext. cab was on a unique smaller frame. Looking at it you would never know, you certainly did well when you bought it. If my memory is correct the couple I looked at was around $50,000. I have done very little Raptor forum reading but from what I read people love them and they are reliable and fun to drive and go off-road. They did talk about gas mileage, but my TRX4 only gets 12 in town. They did talk about the smooth trans. and I think they were talking about getting a replacement for the 5.4 at some point (6.2? hhhmmm). Yea, Rams can get up in price, a crew laramie goes well over 50 without diesel. I am sorry to hear about the hailstorm, I have YET to see a raptor on the road in all my travels, I think you had a one of a kind truck and in trade you did good. You should have had the damage repaired? Or was it to much? There are few trucks that stick out to me, a guy in this site has a 12'PowerWagon, and those Raptors are real cool, I don't care what anybody says!!!!

 

I've never seen SC package truck, seems like a pretty nice rig when comes to working around the farm, or what not.

A neighbor behind me had a Raptor, but he has yet to leave the asphalt with it. Plenty of off-roading farm trails around me, I would be all over that with the Raptor.

That truck has some interesting exterior lighting, not sure if he installed the lighting, or if that's part of the package. Amber lights across the grille, 3 tiered vertical lights in the rear, cab bottom-mounted lights.

 

All raptors come with a short bed. No other F150 is available with an extended cab and short bed. My 5.4 would only get about 18 on a highway. I took the opportunity to consolidate bills after the storm and go from two vehicles to one.

They do not make a regular cab truck... FYI SC is a bad abbreviation when it comes to fords... They have a regular cab, super cab and super crew, so it is hard to pin down what SC means, other than that it does not mean single cab.

If you drive a Raptor on the right terrain, and you are the right personality, then you get this Zen feeling from experiencing a piece of machinery doing exactly what it was designed to do, and doing it perfectly... It happened for me first when I cut the wheel left at 95 when I lost a drag race across a dry lake bed to a buddy in a 6.2 raptor.

The exterior lighting is standard on all raptors, clearance lights are federally mandated on vehicles as wide as a raptor.

 

I think sedan meant snow chief (SC) package on the ram.

 

Thank you, that's what I was abbreviating, Snow Chief package.