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Favorite Comment: Fixer czarina69 says, “So very close to being cool. Missed it by a paint job.
….unless it hinges at the top. I could forgive the rest if it can be propped open.”
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Looks like it probably significantly improves aerodynamics though.
thats what i was thinking
gas mileage improved by what, 40%?
I don’t think it’s a bad idea. It keeps stuff dry and reduces drag. It just looks funny.
ha! ha! the guy’s is color blind!
seriously, some putty and a full repaint and no one will notice.
Not really, I’m not, although I think the slight color difference isn’t very noticable.
If you can’t match the color, wouldn’t it be best to go with a completely different (but complementary) color?
Funny? It looks great, it’s a work of art. Ramizan’s right that it could use some spit and shine, though.
I was thinking that perhaps it would protect (law-violating) truck bed passengers from the elements.
Actually Mythbusters tested pick-up trucks’ aerodynamics and theres something interesting about the design that makes them work *shrug*.
It’s like a golf ball that has all the dimples in it. They fill up with air and all the rest of the air rolls right over it. It’s the same in a pick up. The bed creates an air pocket and the wind drifts right over top of it.
I dunno, man. That sort of effect usually has a disasterous effect on your aerodynamics because it creates massive drag behind the pocket (because of the air pressure difference in the still and moving air – like a plane wing). It’s more likely that waybackwhen aero was a crapshoot, it didn’t really matter because gas was cheap and no-one expected pickups to go so fast anyway. In more recent times… every vehicle except for maybe heavy construction machines (but including mobile cranes) gets run through a computer aero design package and the model gets at least a little wind-tunnel testing. If you examine the bodywork of a typical truck there’ll probably be all kinds of subtle features in the shape of the thing that help to direct airflow and nullify the air pocket drag effect.
Day 201 – This was the only available transportation. But it was too butt ugly even for me. Besides, I think IT is a zombie.
Day 202 – I was chased by a butt-ugly zombie-truck last night. It ate an old Chevy, canablized it’s hood, and then it came for me. Thankfully, I found a bulldozer that hadn’t been zombified yet. Crushed the zombie-truck good. The hubcaps survived and kept pestering me. Melted them with my hairspray-flamethrower. Got to get out of this city.
Day 203: I went back to the day spa where I had been cultivating a shoal of goldfishes in the womens tub. Zombie extremities (fingers, earlobes) are the best bait for catching these fishies. Frankly – it’s all the bait I can find…
I suppose this is the product of the over use of the word fail.
Batman’s redneck cousin
This is what happens when you don’t take up ice fishing during the winters in Minnesota.
can’t you just go to the Mall of America and call it a day?
To the Redneck Cave!
3 internets to who ever can name car + back donor.
I would say Henry J, but the back window is wrong. the more I look at it the more I think it might actually be fiberglass and doing exactly what it was intended to do.
Like this:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://home.comcast.net/~ljfid/52hj02369.jpg&imgrefurl=http://home.comcast.net/~ljfid/page01.htm&usg=__Vk_nPztn8_c7YbhZxY0rOofksG8=&h=1944&w=2592&sz=2332&hl=en&start=57&um=1&tbnid=zBToicrkbP6DhM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhenry%2Bj%2Bcars%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D42%26um%3D1
Wow–and I thought I was the only one who remembered Henry J. Kaiser’s economy car.
no, many of us remember Henry J’s and the glass in the rear of the truck looks like side window glass (rear) from a tudor Henry J
I’d have to also say a Henry J but rear 1/4 glass from a VW bug
Some kind of old Tatra?
Damn skate rats! Get off my property!
You know, if this had been done a little more cleanly/professionally, it would fall into the “really cool” part of the spectrum instead of into the “almost” section…
Probably gets better gas mileage now.
Yeah. Laughing gas.
WIN!
Dunno that Eden Prairie, MN, counts as “Redneck”, but you’re right – the truck itself does….
Do you actually recognize the shopping center, or did you Google it up from the clues like I did?
(Tower Square – 582 Prairie Center Drive, Eden Prairie MN 55344)
If they put it together halfway decently (Fiberglass over plywood & a wood or steel tube frame) this truck shell is one decent matching paint job away from a WIN.
I actually recognized this strip mall instantly… I should for how many times I used to go to Shinders (when it was there) as a kid for baseball cards and comics… and Pannekoeken and Paper Warehouse and Play It Again Sports. Ahhh memories.
I did as well. That jewelery store is owned my one of my friends.
if you guys see this thing again, can you ask the owner how it opens? I mean, I don’t see any kind of doors and/or handle in the rear; do you just crawl in from the cab?!?
Haha, I knew it!
Yeah, Eden Prairie is the furthest thing from “redneck” in Minnesota…
I really like how he turned the truckbed into Fins, Creative!
once upon a child wanted a 60′s car but couldn’t buy it until got grand father, (not fast as insta juice).
Wild west version of batman.
Its Inspector Gadget’s long lost partner, Texas Ranger Gadget.
Picture taken from twin truck
So very close to being cool. Missed it by a paint job.
….unless it hinges at the top. I could forgive the rest if it can be propped open.
Of course it does. How else do you get the batskidoo out?
take the roof off…when the bats come, shoot them.
THE COVERTIBLE GHETTO-MOBILE
It also comes with optional add on wings and propeller that can be attached to the drive-shift of the engine in the front.
Is that the same strip mall in EP that has/had Camh Ran Bay? Good eats there.
It could be the strip mall on Culebra Road (San Antonio) or up by the Medical Center. There is so little to tell between such things anymore.
Nice cludge though, and a good paint job would do wonders for it. I want to say that the car was a Studebaker, but I already have eleven internets. There’s no more room on my 5.25″ floppy drive for another.
OK, I am starting a poll. What’s Worse
That this was made for the truck -or- That he put it on the truck.
(real votes please, this is not the BUSH election)
I vote the strip mall. Oh, not a Bush election. Ummm.. Made for the truck. He ruined a classic car to do this.
^ +9001 internets for you
Owner of car: I didn’t have enough money for qaulity parts, so i had to settle on this for now.
Marty McFly’s 2010 back to the future cruck.
My first thought was that it was a VW Beetle mating with a four-by.
A pickup truck with an escape pod!
“Yeah, it’ll be so cool, man. And I’m gonna paint it the same color as the truck, so then it will look like it’s original equipment. People are never gonna know, man.”
I think it is from a 1948 Chevy fastback coupe and almost
very neat…..
Grammar police here. Very funny but the expression is “harking back” not “hearkening back”.
Um…unless I’m mistooken
The expression is “hearken back”…but teh google will set us straight.
look at the glass alignment – this is a fiberglass kludge, not the back end of a Studewhatsit……
I don’t know what’s more disturbing, the truck/car thing, or the store behind it, “Once Upon a Child”. “Once Upon a Child”? Won’t that get you like, 20 years in prison? Well, everywhere but Arkansas, anyway……
Yay, commercial culture.
This has to go down as the ugliest bed topper in history.
OHHH YA!
Eden Prairie, MN ftw. This is a strip mall in the ring around the Eden Prairie Center right next to the McDonald’s. I have a friend that works in the Inta Juice.
Definitely not a redneck part of MN. Most like rich bastards that have the time and money to do this.
That’s an aerodynamic mod to reduce drag.
And a pretty damn sweet one at that!
The down side of making something like this outta ‘glass or plastic is it will never be allowed the dignity of quietly rusting away. It’s gotta be cut up and burned.
and drive a stake through its heart if you really want to be rid of it.
Bumper Sticker: “My other car is a Ferrarosche”
The poor man’s version of pimp my ride somehow didn’t draw that many volunteers. Actually, it was cancelled after the first episode. However the nightmare lives on for Scotty.
Sweet! 1940s (roof) and 1950s (‘wings’) mixed together suddenly make a tasty dish.
Looks like a fiberglass mockup of Kirby’s front half backed onto a pickup.
Edit: should have written half-BAKED!
Truck Win
Store Name Fail (once upon a child?)
I’m in the process of making a similar thing for my truck. I have done a ton of research and have gotten to understand some basics of aerodynamics. I actually considered this very design, but decided against it on account of it isn’t too aerodynamic. It has to do with the fact that the air will not follow that curving slope all the way down. You will get severe flow separation about half way down those windows which will create a loot of turbulence and drag. Hear me now, believe me later, this will save some gas, but only about 5-8%.
The only place you can improve aerodynamics in the back is above the top of the truck bed and try to control the flow there, the sides of the bed and behind the tailgate area are doomed aerodynamically.
Wow !! you got all that from one veiw??
Na na na na, na na na na, na na na na, na na na na – Red neeeeeeck
To the bat truck robin!!!!!
To all who want to know what car this is from , it aint from no car it’s a custom job , look at the fit around the cab , and the box sides CLOSELY, ya can’t cut a chunk of car and make it fit like that!!
Somebody did this on purpose?
And if you look in the back ground there is a building sign that says “once upon a child”, either this guy is a creep trying to lure little children into his car that is so much cooler than the SUV that their parents have or they are trying to lure a single mom into their trap with pretty jewelry from the jewelers and a gift card to the day spa so he can get to their kid. Weird.
This is something that the Top Gear guys would love !
Jix: either is correct. Both words (hark and hearken) mean “pay attention”.
Ahetma, Ur-r-suk, Ari: Where on earth do you people live that you don’t have Once Upon a Child stores? Are you from Azerbaijan or something? It’s a fairly major chain in the first world, headquartered in the US I think. They sell clothing, for children (duh). You have to be Amish to avoid hearing their television and radio advertisements.
I’ve lived in Iowa, Massachusetts, Colorado, Florida, and Oregon and I have never heard of this tastelessly named store.
They have them all over the Midwest and parts of the South, I think, but I never thought of the name that way until now! It’s a consignment shop for children’s clothing. Er, at least I hope it is.
Pennsylvania and no such thing here
Holy batmobile, Batman!
If trucks were teenage mutant ninja turtles