Back in the day when I was growing up here in MO everybody I knew had a gunrack in the back window of his truck.
Yeah.
But not any more.
See, "Back In The Day" Things were done a little differently.
You went to the Western Auto store, bought your gun rack kit, and drilled some holes into the steel inner wall of the truck cab for the self tapping screws that held it in place.
Later on, K-mart had a plastic rack that wedged between the window glass and the rubber gasket holding the rear window in place.
But wait a minute... Have you looked at a pickup truck lately?
See, "Back In The Day" a pickup was considered a work vehicle. They were made of steel and the emphasis was in the "Work" part of the story.
Today, a pickup is luxurious regardless of where it was made or what level of trim it has. There are no more painted steel surfaces to be seen anywhere in the interior. There is no place where you could just drill a hole and mount something.
The interior is made out of plastic. It's insulated, soundproofed, and has all sorts of cupholders and speaker housings made into it. Drilling a hole would be downright silly and could easily do major damage to wiring and whatever else is behind it.
Also, expecting that plastic interior to survive a "Hold My Beer, I wanna Try Sumthin" moment with a pair of nine pound rifles screwed to it is asking a bit much.
There are also no exposed rubber gaskets on the windows that you can wedge into. The windows are secured with a rubber glue and the interior parts go all the way to the window glass.
These days, the designers make accommodations for the things that are found on the inside of our vehicles. They look at things like airbag deployment, and how things are going to act when they submit their designs to the mandatory crash testing every vehicle found on our roads has to survive.
No, I don't see anybody digging out one of those old rubber coated steel hook things and screwing it to the interior of his brand new 50 thousand dollar pickup.
It just wouldn't be right.
