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October 19, 2010
Dump Truck Gets Air
By Karan Singh
StreetFire.net
It’s not the most impressive jump, but it is impressive that it was even attempted in such a vehicle. The guy’s boss probably won’t think so, though.
October 5, 2010
Big Bad Benz Truck
Atomicalex
While Mercedes-Benz is known best as a luxury car maker in the US, in Germany, they make and sell everything from tiny city cars to giant city buses. And if it wasn’t raining over here all the time, I might be able to get a decent pic of some of their big stuff. This truck sure deserves one – it’s a purpose-built road-and-rail truck that, you guessed it, runs on train tracks as well as the road. This one is used to clean the rails and the clips and plates that secure the rails to the sleepers and rail ties. A pic of the custom hydraulics for the rail wheels after the jump…
September 29, 2010
August 16, 2010
8 Dead, 12 Injured in California 200
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
I can’t even believe how horrible this is: an off-road truck rolled over and plunged into a crowd of spectators at the dry lakes of Lucerne Valley, CA, this weekend, and a too-close crowd of spectators camped out at the course’s treacherous “rockpile” paid the ultimate price. The driver was uninjured, but spectators–who by some estimates were within four feet of the hot track, with trucks racing by at 45-50 mph–did not fare as well after the Misery Motorsports truck went out of control after getting airborne, rolled over, and landed on its roof. Four bodies were found trapped beneath the truck once it was righted, and people had their kids out running around by this dangerous stretch of track–one victim was seen shoving children out of the truck’s path before he was crushed. Read more…
August 2, 2010
Gearhead Living in Hermosa Beach
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
When pondering the question of whether or not I’d want to live in a given locale, it always comes down to the issue of vehicle storage. LA’s Hermosa Beach is pretty, but I’d have some reservations about parking all my rides in the street on an incline in a drunken-frat-boy part of town. Whoever owns this collection–and I’m guessing, just a hunch, that the trio of tan pickups plus what I suspected to be a suicide-doors Continental under a car cover all belong to the same person–seems to be making it work. Or not? The International camper was slowly accumulating parking tickets, and it’s hard to guess where you’d wrench on anything. More pics below the jump.
May 28, 2010
Crazy Flaming Carnage: 18-Wheeler T-Bones Dump Truck
By Brian Lohnes
BangShift.com
We’ll start with the punchline. According to the Associated Press, neither driver in this massive collision was hurt. We can’ t fathom how that is possible because the impact looks like someone detonating a nuclear device, but we’re glad that it’s true. This is explosion quality that is normally only seen in Jerry Bruckheimer movies. How the dump truck managed to amble across a highway and directly in front of an 18-wheeler gathering steam to merge onto said highway is beyond us, but it happened. Pay attention to the upper left corner of the camera shot. This kids, is impressive stuff…
May 23, 2010
Escalade Minitruck
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Felix took a beater S-10 and an Escalade front clip and built a very clean little Cadillac-nosed pickup out of the two. Take a look!
May 1, 2010
The Hulk
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
John’s GMC pickup is really tall and really green. It’s also running a 383 Jasper crate motor and 4.88 gears. Hulk smash!
April 21, 2010
“Because I Was High”
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
At least the builder wasn’t so high that he neglected to add a second bumper at street-legal height. It’d be a shame if this jacked-up ride wasn’t streetable, because you know it’s going to be great for getting pedestrians out of the way in hurry. Via the “Because I was high” thread on VWVortex. More pics below the jump!
March 24, 2010
Too Much Nose
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Remember to keep weight distribution in mind if you must put your vehicle’s four wheels in the air–pickups aren’t always the best candidates for a launch. Fortunately (or not so much for the gene pool) the hoon at the wheel suffered only a split lip and a broken nose. Thanks to Evan for the tip!
