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Nested vehicles: A pickup on a dumptruck on a flatbed on a massive truck

Cory Doctorow at 11:55 am Mon, Jul 23, 2012

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Redditor Amiziras posted this photo of several nested trucks, taken last year in West Street, Bedminster, Bristol.

Pickup on a truck on a truck on a truck (imgur.com) (Thank, Sam!)

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  • grimc

    Maybe he had a long way to go and didn’t want to stop for gas.

  • Utenzil

    What, no skateboard on a motorcycle in the pickup? Nesting FAIL!

    • Hanglyman

       What, no roller skate on top of the skateboard?

  • robdobbs

    It’s just missing a smart car on top painted as a cherry.

  • http://twitter.com/Beryllium9 Beryllium9

    Vehicular Matryoshka.

  • http://twitter.com/bengarvey Ben Garvey

    You forgot: on a planet, on a turtle.

    • ldobe

       …On a turtle, on a turtle, on a turtle, on a…..

    • irksome

      On a box of Morton Salt…

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Shouldn’t in a cavern, in a canyon go between planet and massive truck?

      • N ED

        …. theres no planet that site on turtles.. on a disc on a turtle, on its way to mate.

  • dragonfrog

    Does that make them nested lorries?

    • http://lubke.net Flashman

       Yeah, blimey, I can’t believe Cory ignored the opportunity to drop in the word ‘lorry’.

  • awgrbr

    I like to think the mini cooper in the foreground is preparing to top the pyramid. 

  • corydodt

    Not visible: the Tonka truck sitting on the dashboard of the pickup.

    • http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

       It’s actually in the glove compartment….

  • Brood-X

    So there really is Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M 

  • http://soundcloud.com/pocketsquare grumble-bum

    Truckducken?

    • mccrum

      I missed getting this in there by five minutes!  But I was going with turtrucken.

      • http://soundcloud.com/pocketsquare grumble-bum

         Oooh, that’s nice too! ;-)

        • rrh

           I was going to go for matrushka.

        • http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul

          Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it’s been.

      • Felton / Moderator

        Keep on turducken!

      • BombBlastLightingWaltz

        Add a few tons of potatoes and carrots, baste and season to taste. Pop it in a (large) kiln for 3.5 hours or until tender. A viola. Bon appetit.

  • zombiebob

    It’s like an automotive tudurken!

  • The Dour Salmon

    TRUCKCEPTION

  • http://alenonimo.com.br Alenônimo

    Matroshka Motors

  • Reverend Loki

    It’s hard to tell by the picture, but I think it looks like there is a motorcycle or an ATV in the bed of that pickup truck…  You can barely see what looks like handlebars and a seat sticking out the top.

  • xenphilos

    Yo dawg…

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/ASYOOK4KQ4FQH4ZDONKUOJGA5Y Gene Eric Name

       Sometimes, I think the point of the comment system timestamps is so I can see exactly how much faster other people are at beating me to jokes.

  • http://twitter.com/adamstjohn Adam StJohn Lawrence

    There was a great opening sequence to one League of Gentlemen episode where a big truck pulled up, let down the ramp and a small delivery truck rolled out. The delivery truck disgorged a fork lift carrying a crate. The crate opened, and a toy truck rolled out carrying a box of russian dolls… 

  • http://twitter.com/slowtiger slowtiger

    Finally in real life that great Simpsons sight gag: the “truck trcuk truck” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfOVJAQebas (german, but better image)

  • diginferno

    It looks a bit safer than the fractal cranes.

  • captain_cthulhu

    wrecursive wrecks!

  • Aeron

    The reversed air sled on the second-largest truck is going to create some fantastic drag!

  • Petzl

    I guess I have to say what everyone is thinking …

  • Chuck

    Can you drive it all from the pickup?

  • catastrophegirl

    I saw something similar last weekend: a flatbed (which was carrying a truck) towing a flatbed (which was also carrying a truck)
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/catastrophegirl/7572766378
    i especially enjoying the professionalism of the sign on the back

  • Melly

    it’s one of those photo challenges where someone posts an idea for a photo and people make it happen.  One is a truck on a truck on a truck.  Guess they took it a little further on this one.  Another is outside a window escaping lover with red boxers hangs while husband looks out targeting him with a gun, and the wife also looking out in horror. 
    That’s why it’s happening, because it’s a challenge someone accepted, nothing more.

  • abinocoe

    This is where I live! Fame at last.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1075429059 Joshua Imag Grissom

    Repo men, hard at work.

  • Engineer_

    How about a bike on a ute on a truck and all of them doing burnouts! 
    Kiwi style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smj6BceU0u0 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1301694518 Seyed Kariminia

    inception 

    • MaximumOvertroll

      TRUCKception!

  • http://twitter.com/stephaniedoes stephaniedoes

    And in the center of it all, there’s a nano car!
    http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/03/13/nano-race-car-printed-in-3d-video/

  • Rickmccl

    I really need a tumblr of this kind of picture, pls.