The Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors' Kei Truck Garden Contest challenges people to transform the beds of their miniature pickup trucks into lovely mobile gardens. From Spoon & Tamago:
Other than using the kei truck there are very few limitations and landscapers have incorporated everything from benches and aquariums to elements of lighting into their designs. Judges then rank the entries based on planning, expression, design, execution and environment.
Some models of Russian GAZelle Next commercial vans and trucks have Tetris integrated into the instrument cluster as an Easter egg. Here's the Google translation of the YouTube poster's instructions of how to bring up the game:
1) Turning the ignition on 2) Start a car 3) Three times the right turn signal 4) Two times distant 5) Five times on the clutch 6) raise the speed to 2000 and at that moment we light the arrow to the left
This is dekotora (デコトラ), the Japanese maker culture that started in the 1970s of tricking out large trucks with garish lights, Gundam-inspired chrome mods, and eyeball-spanking paint jobs. Read the rest
This summer, BB pal Adam Savage of MythBusters and Tested modified a pick-up truck into a mobile movie theater!
In what feels as tense as Wages of Fear in places, teams of drivers transport wind turbine blades up a steep switchback mountain road.
According to Wind Power Monthly:
The route to the government-sponsored Baoding Mountain Wind Farm is 5.5 km long, and includes 212 turns and slopes as steep as 30 degrees. The journey with each blade took five hours, and the drivers had to negotiate the load through villages with buildings on either side of the road, and high voltage power lines. The blades are 52.4 metres long, and weigh over 12 tons.
• C&C trucks carrying wind turbine blades to the mountaintop (via Wind Power Monthly) Read the rest
Available for $1800 OBO in Lynchburg, Virginia:
1984 Chevy shorted in great shape with a perfect camouflaged paintjob. 4 wheel drive like new interior, very clean windows. low miles.
Note that he holds his nose before splashing into the water. Read the rest
Ah, to know that the driver is oblivious to his or her impending doom. This video, said to be of an unfortunate trucker in Saudi Arabia, is almost as good as the legendary truck-scalping bridge of Durham.
This occurred yesterday in Saudi Arabia, according to YouTube poster Mohamed Quetteineh. Read the rest
In this video a semi jumps through the air, over half the length of a football field. Nobody dies. Read the rest
This is the Gibbs Humdinga, a truck that truly goes off-road, right into the water. Read the rest
Every Car Listed published some interesting maps about America's gas-guzzling habits. In 42 of 50 states, the most popular vehicle is a pickup truck or SUV. Read the rest
