Get in Marty we're going to my high school reunion but first I gotta fix a disconnect

There's one running around Denver with a ladder rack on it. Didn't look too bad really and the angular body makes it so even my fabrication skills could make a decent looking rack.

Can't wait to see a camper topper on one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/1r8lv00/spotted_in_the_wild/

That pic looked too jpg'd to be real, but I found another source.

Does it make it an actual truck now, instead of a flaming deathtrap?

Definitely looks like the kind of handy work someone with that truck would do in these trying times. At least you know what you are getting if they pull up and try give you a quote.

A little of both I'd say... more of a truck, still a highly flammable death trap.

That's an improvement.

Doing truck things! Is that part "bulletproof" too? Lol

I know what I've got!

Looks like something the old Top Gear presenters would build

Can never be sure these days, lol

...since everything is in series and there's a short somewhere!

ooo now i want to see an e-sandman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Sandman

Much better. And you'll get more respect driving it. Still a deathtrap though.

Back looks like a face desperately crying for help

Well is it a truck or is it not?

Smoker compartment instead of direct to flame.

I'm of an age where much fun was had in the back of the Ford version

Respect for the mod itself, but i'd estimate the air resistance of that thing reduces it's range by 20% or so.

A cyberfuck

Better than my name for it: The Tarditron 3000

Props for keeping the aesthetics

The fact that you can't just throw stock pickup accessories on it is its biggest flaw. And that's saying something, because it deliberately locks occupants inside when it catches fire.

If this camper’s a-clankin’

Don’t knock — I’m wankin’

Can't sue if you're dead. Taps temple

Tonoight:

• James trips over a phone cord, "Oh cock!"

• Hammond says the word 'egalitarian' "Egalitarian."

• and I hit a man with a shovel. PANG "oof!" "Sorry."

Did you drive around with your friends catching ghosts?

Simone did a much better job with her Truckla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35gWBtLCYg

Dacia Papuc?

Everybody, good news!

It looks apocalyptic, but wouldn't last long in an apocalypse.

Looks great actually. Simpler to build than a curved body. Nice flat lumber rack on top so you can build more for your friends, because let’s face it at this point your only friends are from the local Cybertruck club. A+

They're now calling themselves the heart of the internet?

Ive never watched an episode of Top Gear... Is it worth it and does it hold up?

Better than mine... Der MuskWagen.

Is it worth it? I think so, I enjoyed it. Does it hold up? Complicated question.

The Clarkson-Hammond-May show ran for a couple decades and went through three major phases: journalism, shenanigan and adventure.

In earlier seasons they were more of a typical car show, they did more journalism relevant to the average driver...in early 2000s Britain. Top Gear isn't looked back on fondly for Richard Hammond reporting on viewer polls for new car reliability in 2002. They still made an entertaining show, the cool wall and things like that are entertaining, but I would start you out with later episodes and let you watch these later if you like it. Series staples like taking sports cars for a fast lap around their track to compare their times, and doing celebrity interviews complete with a racing lap around the same track in a compact car, the "Star In A Reasonably Priced Car" segment, begin here.

5 or 6 years in they started the shenanigan era, which is probably what peopel mean when they say "This reminds me of Top Gear." They'd buy three used cars and go do ridiculous things, like turn them into camper vans, or outfit them for racing, or make sports cars into ambulances. In the words of Richard Hammond, "What this was, was fun. And I think we're quite good at fun." If I can point to an episode to introduce new viewers to the series, it'd be the British Leyland challenge episode. The show really starts to shine in this era; the three hosts have great chemistry together and the shenanigans give them more opportunity to play off one another.

That gradually transitioned into the adventure era, as "three guys drive some old cars to the other side of London" becomes racing Veyron against a Cessna 182 across the length of Europe, or driving three old four-by-fours across South America or three ordinary RWD cars across Botswana. The show gradually abandoned the studio segments and became just, the three guys go somewhere in the world and drive some cars in interesting or spectacular locations. There's great stuff here, their Botswana trip is amazing, their Korea trip is amazing, their Nile trip is wonderful, their North Pole trip is NUTS. But I'd watch earlier cheap car challenge episodes first.

The front isn't even attached and is just floating. I'm waiting for some wind to rip that thing off.

In later follow-up she said her franken-truckla suffered electrical problems, rain leakage, and has been relegated to someone's backyard, rotting away under a tarp.

Guy needed a truck for work, and he got a big boner for Trump and Musk, and bought a SwastiKKKar. It quickly became apparent that it was completely inadequate for work, or anything else really, but at that point it had a resale value of less than zero, so he had no choice but to make it work.

Wow. Thanks for the detailed write up and recommendation. I was graduated from high school when the show was first airing, but I just never took the time to watch it because i wasnt a car guy. Then i was aware that shenanigans were happening, but in my mind it was still just a car show. But now 20 years later, people are still talking about it. If I can find it, maybe i'll give it a watch starting where you suggested.

there are enough valid reasons to shit onto he cybertruck that there's no need for us to pretend this exact mod isn't done to plenty of regular trucks

So yeah if "not a car guy" you might bounce off of the first couple of seasons. Here's a sample from the shenanigan era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7q8lWEd-o

Ya, but this is not a truck any more than the Hyundai Santa Cruz is a truck. It's UTE. And anyone who does this to their Santa Cruz would also deserve to be mocked.

The dark corrupted Nazi heart.

You're kind of both missing the point. It isn't really about the truck. MAGAs should be bullied and abused as much as possible. The truck is only a good excuse to heap on more scorn. He could have driving a perfectly acceptable ride, and I'd still excoriate them.

MAGAs are the only acceptable targets for bullying, and it should be savage.

Implicitly

IIRC, there was basically supposed to be an official version of this as an add-on. What happened to that?

There are two types of people that buy Teslas:

1. People that buy them as Nazi jewelry

2. People that buy them as Nazi technology

LOL! Holy shit. Where is the America First sticker?