Truck With a Jet Engine

Posted by John Farrier in Car & Vehicle on November 18, 2009 at 1:55 pm


Photo: John Masterson

The Frictionator is a Ford F650 pickup truck equipped with a 7,000 hp GE J85 jet engine. Joe Arnold’s monster truck is capable of reaching speeds up to 200 mph and is street legal (so as long as you don’t use the jet engine).

Official Website via GearFuse | Video

 
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Buy a Truck, Get a Free AK-47!

Posted by Alex in Car & Vehicle, Weapons & War on July 19, 2009 at 2:07 am

Remember the dealership that gave away handguns if you buy their car last year? Well, they’ve upped their firepower: Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, is now giving away an AK-47 (technically, a voucher redeemable for one) when you buy a pick-up truck!

Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors, is upgrading an earlier sales gimmick in which he offered new truck buyers to choose between a $250 gas voucher or a gun voucher. The website says the dealer is giving away guns again "due to popular demand."

"Muller calls the initial deal an overwhelming success," Business Insider reports. "He also says it generates a lot of publicity and really angers ‘liberals.’"

Link | Max Motors’ website

 
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Dangling Over A Bridge

Posted by Miss Cellania in Car & Vehicle on April 16, 2009 at 9:21 am

Truck driver Zhian Feng went over the side of a bridge in Chengdu, China. The truck was left dangling by the bumper, only inches away from tumbling 100 feet to the ground below!

Witness Lu Wi said: ‘We heard an amazing bang and went out to see what was happening.

‘We saw a lorry hanging over the bridge, and a man in his 40s struggling to climb out.

‘When he got out the driver said he was lucky he had his seat belt on or he’d have fallen straight out of his open window.’

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Man Survives Truck, Train Crash

Posted by Queuebot in Odd News on March 6, 2009 at 11:59 am


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Amazing CCTV footage of a Turkish man who narrowly escapes a collision with a truck and a train.

File under "Lucky".

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Man Loses Car He Just Parked

Posted by Queuebot in Car & Vehicle on February 20, 2009 at 10:20 pm


Michael Otero parked his new red truck in front of a convenience store in Laguna Beach, California and went inside for only a few minutes. When he returned, the truck was gone! Since he had left the keys in the ignition and the doors unlocked, Otero assumed it had been stolen. Police watched the surveillance video and found out what really happened. You can, too.

Link – via bannedinhollywood

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Trucking Duck

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Car & Vehicle on January 17, 2009 at 8:59 am

Truck driver Joe Mansheim of Minnesota has an unusual assistant: his duck! Mansheim raised Frank from a duckling and now the duck accompanies him every day at work.

Joe and Frank chat often on the road. Joe complains about the traffic; Frank quacks. And driver and duck go about their business delivering construction materials throughout the Twin Cities for Elite Transportation Systems.

“Pretty good looking site we helped build there,” Joe says proudly to Frank as they descend into the Mississippi River valley with a load of steel for the new I-35W bridge. “We did a good job Frankie.”

To many of the construction workers he encounters in his deliveries, Joe is now known as the “duck man.”

The title suits him just fine.

“I go to these construction sites and you always see everybody smile when they see him,” Joe says.

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The Decorative Trucks of Pakistan

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Car & Vehicle, Pictures on November 24, 2008 at 3:46 am

Japan may have some strange pimped out semis (blogged on Neatorama here), but they certainly don’t have the monopoly on vehicle art. Behold the creative truck art of Pakistan:

Even though truck art isn’t unique to Pakistan anymore, nowhere else in the world is the practice so pervasive. In a country where the per capita income is barely north of $2,000, it is surprising to see fleet owners (the trucks aren’t owner-operated) spend $3,000-$5,000 per truck for structural modifications that convert these gas-guzzling, smoke-spewing, road-dominating monstrosities into beautiful moving canvases covered in poetry, folk tales, and ‘…religious, sentimental and emotional worldviews of the individuals employed in the truck industry,’ making it one of the biggest forms of representational art in the country.

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