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Title: This Mysterious Big-Rig Pickup Is Made of Jeep and Mitsubishi Parts and It's Downright Scary
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URL Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/ent ... ary/ar-AABvmOE?ocid=spartanntp
Published: May 17, 2019
Author: David Tracy
Post Date: 2019-05-17 21:40:53 by BTP Holdings
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Views: 447
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This Mysterious Big-Rig Pickup Is Made of Jeep and Mitsubishi Parts and It's Downright Scary David Tracy 12 hrs ago Image used with permission Here at Jalopnik, we regularly see lots of wacky vehicles, but none of them prepared my soul for this. This image contains what appears to be a big rig frame with a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited cab and a Mitsubishi Mighty Max box. It’s truly bizarre, and I don’t think I understand what’s going on. I’ll admit that I’m not 100 percent sure there’s an over-the-road truck under all of that strange sheetmetal, but looking at the axles, the (Peterbilt?) grille up front, the steering pitman arm setup just behind the grille on the driver’s side, and the angle of the tail end of the frame, I think there’s a good chance that the frame comes from a chopped long-hauler. I reached out to a diesel technician and truck driver Keanu Black, and told me he thinks it could be a small Peterbilt 335 under there. Image used with permission I first saw these pictures after a guy named Xristos posted them to the car enthusiast Facebook group Oppositetalk, though he says it was his friend who actually snapped the shots. Unfortunately, he says his buddy has no idea what this contraption is, and I think that’s fair enough, because this thing is out there. What’s most obvious is that the cab clearly comes off of a Jeep Wrangler (based on the shape of the headrests, the size of the rear side windows, and the Deep Cherry Red Crystal paint, I’d guess it’s a 2011-2013 model), the box came off of a late 1980s/early 1990s Mitsubishi Mighty Max (or possibly a Mitsubishi-based Dodge Ram 50), the grille probably came off of some sort of Peterbilt truck, and I frankly don’t have the least clue where the hood and fenders came from. I bet they’re custom. I bet a lot of this truck is custom. With the two menacing headlights flanking the giant grille up front, the aggressive-looking vents in the front “fender,” and just the sheer enormity of the machine, the truck looks like something straight out of Mad Max, and it’s downright scary. Poster Comment:
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Nothing small about a Cummins if that what's under the hood. This will pull down the nearest cow barn. Websites list this bolted to a 6-speed Allison. Looks like bitch-ass fun to drive. O_O
To me, the bed is Chevy/GMC and the cab is Land/Range Rover. The builder should have shrunk the grill, imo. Otherwise, very well done: now get it to Earl Scheib. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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#2. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
could be a small Peterbilt 335 under there
#3. To: randge (#2)
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