My memory is influenced by the maybe 100 trucks and vans a month I was involved in ordering and selling between 1984 and 1995, and a bit of foggy history based on common knowledge of even earlier trucks along with a brief brush with the Studebaker history.
I've charged a buyer $75 for a spare and $120 for a bumper at least 1,000 times.
I don't have the slightest memory about jacks, leading me to believe they all came with jacks.
I do kind of remember selling undermounts on dodges that didn't come with the mount. Maybe we had spare tire kits and not just tires... Too long ago.
This 'no spare tire' thing was too much of a 'daily do' to even remember specifics. It's just the way it was with a truck or van sale.
What's jumbling this all is, I used the words:
Base
And
Truck
Relating my conversation to our current cutaway and stripped e series vehicles.
And
you all are using the words:
Car
And
Cadillac.
Relating your counterpoint to everything other than our cutaway and stripped chassis.
(my first space saver spare was in a 1971 'Cuda convertible. I'm semi sure some 69ish mustangs were outfitted with them as either an option or a beta test.)
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