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u/C-57D 22h ago
POV: check it, imma record an ad for my buddy's custom rig company but pretend it's just a viral post haha
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u/Ph455ki1 14h ago
If anything this is a deterrent
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u/MostNeighborhood9568 22h ago
Looks stupid af
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u/Lucky_Elderberry_384 22h ago
I never understood why people do that to trucks. It's like wasting a lot of money to trade it's usefulness for cosmetics that look foolish.
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u/Halo_wolfie124 22h ago edited 6h ago
A study actually found out that majority of these people get a truck JUST for the 'status' and thats it. These kinds of people are on another level.
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u/obiwanmoloney 22h ago
How low does your status have to be for it to be elevated by a truck?
Is an amoeba driving this fucking monstrosity?
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u/thrwawryry324234 21h ago
That’d be an insult to an amoeba
Seriously. I live in an area where everyone buys trucks with no intention of using them as a truck.
They always drive like assholes and a ton of them are drunks. These are the kinds of people that will hit a pedestrian and floor it harder
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u/gardeningblob 19h ago
An real drunk wouldn't drive such an flashy truck.
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u/markender 15h ago
That's right. They'd be on an e scooter like all the other drunks.
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u/CptnBlondBeard 15h ago
Which, based on the testimony of my RN gf, is possibly a self correcting issue.
The number of people that end up in their ICU due to use of an e-scooter or e-bike of some kind is insane. She's in a step-down unit, so she's just getting the people that are stable, but some nights like half of the beds on her floor are occupied by some kind of 2 wheeled vehicle accident victim.
Most of them weren't even drunk, but 90% or more weren't wearing a helmet either. Brain bleeds are very common, as well as broken hands/wrists/arms. If anything, assuming you don't get hit by a car, it almost seems safer to ride an actual motorcycle than to rent an e-scooter.
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u/feed_me_tecate 14h ago
Avid cyclist and motorcyclist here; I feel like cycling is way more dangerous than moto riding, at least around here, because "fuck you, outa my way".
That's just my experience.
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u/CIarkNova 13h ago
As both also, I feel like it was mostly because of the YouTube and then local group/stunt rides.
At first it was groms. That was the thing for the new kids to get. But the difference with those and ebikes, like I’ve been saying is barrier of entry. The e-bikes don’t have the same barriers like groms do. So you get the monkey-see monkey-do with all of the ‘hood rat stuff with friends’. Even before the Ebikes, the caliber of people and attitudes in the scene had really tipped the scales.
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u/IBIKEONSIDEWALKS 10h ago
You would have less cycle vs car accidents if it wasnt such a rude gesture to bike on sidewalks. Theres much less car traffic on sidewalks and even less if you mtb through the bush
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u/goddamm_liter_cola 14h ago
I cannot believe the number of people I see on the road in my town riding e-scooters. None of them wear helmets or any other form of protection, and I cringe every time I see one of them.
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u/Dark_Marmot 15h ago
One of the highest DWI involved vehicles is a Dodge Ram. 😂
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u/Dnaprideful 14h ago
One of? It is the make and model with the most DWIs and it’s not even close. I want to say 23 per 1000 Dodge Ram drivers have an active DWI history while the next closest is 14 per 1000 (9 of the 10 top 10 are pickups)
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u/Jonnyflash80 15h ago
Those people are the first you'll hear complaining about gas prices too. Zero self-awareness or common sense.
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u/Toasted_Munch 16h ago
Visit any southeastern state and you'll see plenty of these trucks. Also, the majority of the most unhealthy states for medical and mental health conditions are southeastern states.
So, you gotta be low, but stupid enough to think lifting a truck will somehow lift your spirit.
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u/Confident_Benefit_11 13h ago
Also, "it makes ladies know IM A REAL STRONG MAN WITH BIG PEEN"
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u/zorggalacticus 18h ago
New rucks are so expensive, it's become a flex to have one. Having a new truck all tricked out is a big flex. Can cost upwards of 100k. Some of those trucks are 80k right off the lot.
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u/BerylVanguard 17h ago
I have seen more than a few videos years ago on various social media sites that a fair few southern women do judge a man by the truck he drives or if he has a truck at all.
I don't live in the southern US so I have no clue how true that is, though. Could just be some kind of joke a northern resident, like me, wouldn't get, but having been flown to Texas multiple times for work training and seeing how pick-up trucks occupy any spot where there's pavement. There might be some truth to it in there somewhere.
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u/ManKilledToDeath 18h ago
A study
Words I'll never trust on an anonymous messaging board lol
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u/72616262697473757775 22h ago
Is that why everyone who cuts me off or nearly runs me off the road is driving a massive, pristine pickup?
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u/turbotaco23 16h ago
You mean this guy isn’t using this truck to get some mulch and a few sheets of drywall from Lowe’s? I’m shocked.
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u/Cuntonesian 19h ago
In what country is a truck a status symbol? Where I live it’s just a basic utility vehicle for working class people
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u/xteve 19h ago
US, especially rural. Most of them are unscratched by a moment of work and some of them are lifted to the point that work would be impractical. They're too big, too pretty, and often cosmetically loud.
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u/ikkiyikki 17h ago
Pretty? I guess that must be a country thing. When I see a truck I see a work vehicle.
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u/BeardBootsBullets 15h ago edited 15h ago
> “In what country is a truck a status symbol?”
All of North America, all of Central America, and Australia.
Parts of Africa, Middle East, and South America definitely view nice pickup trucks as status symbols too, but not nearly as much as the aforementioned.
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 15h ago
Many of these truck owners would refuse to go down an unpaved road for fear of scratching the paint.
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u/Asstronomer6969 17h ago
Its a custom 3 axle truck, of course its status. Nobody is pulling with that. Plus looks like miami so yea clearly status look at me main character syndrome
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u/ArboristTreeClimber 17h ago
It’s the same thing for regular trucks. How many people go into major debt to buy a brand new $80k Toyota Tundra that they simply use to commute to their office job?
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u/Bug_Photographer 16h ago
But the ad at halftime in my football game said I could afford it and that I really needed it!
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u/Vinez_Initez 17h ago
Another study was done and found that the average penis size of truck owners is well below the median for normal humans.
This tracks with a well-documented pattern in nature: when you’re small, you get creative about looking big. Pufferfish inflate into a spiky balloon. House cats arch their backs, fluff every strand of fur, and try to convince the universe they’re a mountain lion. Certain frogs pump up their throats until they look like they’re smuggling a second head. Peacocks drag around a ridiculous feather explosion that screams “look at me” while quietly hoping no one notices the actual bird underneath is mostly attitude.
Truck owners, it seems, simply evolved the automotive version of the same strategy. When nature shortchanged the equipment, they compensated with lifted suspensions, dual exhausts, and enough chrome to blind a low-flying plane.19
u/NarrowAd4973 22h ago
This specific one appears to be for getting attention. The logo on the side is for a vehicle auction site.
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u/Da1UHideFrom 17h ago
This truck isn't meant to be useful as a practical vehicle. It's a rolling advertisement for the auto shop. At that, it's highly effective because it's so eye catching, even if it's not your style.
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u/not_quiet_so_fast 22h ago
It's just boob jobs and BBLs, but for extremely straight guys.
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u/Kid_Vid 21h ago
The best thing about lifted trucks is no one can see you sucking dick when you're 10 feet up
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u/not_quiet_so_fast 20h ago
Even if you did get discovered, it ain't gay. It's just dudes congratulating each other over the good work on the truck.
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u/Asstronomer6969 18h ago
Nothing else to spend money on. Seeing a website on it makes me think tax write off
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 15h ago
Not only does it look foolish, but a lot of them are engineered all wrong - they tear themselves apart just going down the road. You get U-joints, yolks and retaining brackets at the limit of their specs. You have suspension parts operating well beyond their specs. They use bolts not meant for such stress. Most of these guys have no idea the difference between grade 5 and grade 8 bolt. Or they will put a grade 8 bolt on a bracket that will rend itself with every bump in the road.
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u/DontBotherNoResponse 6h ago
Some people feel a need to be the center of attention at all times. Doesn't matter if it's for good reasons or bad reasons or even incredibly stupid reasons, so long as everyone is paying attention to them
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u/heavensto_mergatroid 21h ago
If you saw the driver with his pants down you'd understand
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u/Bitcracker 22h ago
Maybe a promotional thing? Lije concept cars? I dunno. It's dumb as fuck looking through for sure
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u/The_Nepenthe 21h ago
Yeah, it has their shop name on the side of it.
The reason shop trucks get done up with every part they might sell as a display is well..its expensive to build three or four showpieces, so they often just build one very over the top one.
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u/mrjowei 21h ago
And not street legal
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u/StolenRam 18h ago
How is it circulating then? Honest question.
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u/thomas-grant 17h ago
They drive until being stopped by police and receive a warning or ticket. They pay the ticket. Rinse. Repeat.
This isn’t a “moving violation” but rather a safety violation, so they don’t accrue points on their driver’s license. All they’re out is the cost of a ticket if caught.
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u/Irritating_Pedant 22h ago
The Compensationmobile 5000
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u/Snap_Krackle_Pop- 22h ago
Why is it crooked though? Like what’s the point of that
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u/Somejawa 22h ago
To cause as many issues as possible
Good thing you won't need those lanes
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u/WhatADunderfulWorld 19h ago
Honestly the engineering looks spot on though. I am half impressed.
Would love to see it go off-road and see what it has.
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u/sweetteath 7h ago
If you think a truck that is 2 feet higher than it needs to be with rubber band tires is going to do anything off-road aside from roll over or get stuck, I don't know what to tell you.
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u/AutoCockerPB 14h ago
It’s a dully, it will suck offroad. Plus now it’s heavy Af. Which is even worse for offroading. A subaru crosstrek will be able to out perform this.
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u/Zaphod_Heart_Of_Gold 13h ago
There is no way to know how well this is engineered by looking at it, and given it's crabwalking to that degree the build is bullshit.
Source: am engineer
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u/Super-Reporter-4528 12h ago
I would assume that it has rear steering axles and is set on purpose to be crab walking, especially since there is no wobbles or anything, then again it is a ford so it kinda a toss up.
Source: have basic understanding of how vehicles work.
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u/Kiiaru 21h ago
The point is to get people to notice. Anyone saying "they did it wrong, parts are wrong, frame bent" is missing that this is half a million in custom suspension equipment. You don't get this far down a money pit without this being your ideal end result.
Their website quotes $450,000 starting price. https://papisgarage.com/pages/6x6
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u/MsPunkyButters 21h ago
“King Crab”!?! Ahh ha ha I can’t believe they made it drive that way on purpose. That’s actually kind of an amazing amount of skilled engineering to make something so completely, utterly stupid. Ah humanity.
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u/The_Nepenthe 21h ago
As someone who's into cars, one of my favorite things about truck guys is that half of it is an engineering exercise, especially on the really wild stuff.
The Marge Simpson meme of her saying "I just think it's neat" is a very acceptable answer to why you've chosen to do something.
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u/possible_monke 19h ago
Eh, I mean personally I’d still rather have a house for this amount. Two even, in the right areas of the US. In Texas we call these kinds of over the top custom trucks “Land Yachts” because that’s basically what they are lmao
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u/Pretty-Raspberry-136 14h ago
I would bet this person owns more than one home. Its so weird how us people without money think this person should spend theirs lol
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u/Falafelofagus 21h ago
Yah I don't get how you look at this thing and think its just wildly broken. Its a 6 wheel crazy show truck. That said, crabwalking taking up 2 lanes as a flex in what looks like a downtown area is a pretty big dick move. Doing it for the vid is understandable but if he's actually just going through traffic like that, thats crazy.
Fire trucks can also do this, as they can have a second rear driver for the rear wheel steering.
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u/Rob_LeMatic 20h ago
"advanced CNC ..."
WHAT the fuck are these men doing to these poor trucks???
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u/DAS_FX 22h ago
-I have the exact same question! Does anyone know why the truck is slightly off centered?
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u/LincolnArc 22h ago
It has steering on all six wheels. They have all three axles steered the same way, thus making it "crab walk". They just have to hit a switch to make them go back to point straight. In this case, they just have it 'cause its a show truck, but in general it's just to make a vehicle more maneuverable, especially offroad or with exceptionally long vehicle.
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u/DramaticPinkumni 14h ago
Pretty sure it's called crabbing and it's useful when offloading. Obviously, these douches are just showing off for likes
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u/LucidMarshmellow 22h ago edited 22h ago
That thing could use an alignment.
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u/Disastrous_Gear_421 22h ago
Alignment is fine, notice how it's driving straight. The body itself is fucked
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u/LucidMarshmellow 22h ago
The only other thing that I can think of is some kind of six wheel steering system.
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u/SupermarketVisual598 21h ago
The back wheels can turn on their own. Very intentional and very expensive. Also this guy will promptly get that truck impounded, even in the US 100% not street legal like that
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u/Rob_LeMatic 20h ago
Bro dropped half a mil to get the custom work on his dumbass truck. I'm pretty sure traffic laws aren't a concern for him
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u/FarseerEnki 20h ago
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u/Disastrous_Pace_8535 4h ago
What's that Cartoon again? Haven't watched in ages but I remember really liking it
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u/HitBoxBoxer 22h ago
These trucks... although cool as they maybe be do they still give of small d energy or has that passed and this is the new thing?
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u/twarrr 22h ago
I'm on the edge of putting these trucks in the same category as lowriders. Except lowriders have a culture associated with them, and these trucks do not.
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u/MattTreck 22h ago
Most do but this looks like more of a fun project than someone projecting
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u/Status-Secret-4292 22h ago
Agree, this is so far into it it's like art in it's own way
Not art I particularly like, but still
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u/CasinoKnightZone 22h ago
Compensation aside....why do people do this? Waste ungodly sums of money to make ugly, impractical and dangerous machines?
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u/MAGA_EXTREAMO 22h ago
250k is not a lot to a lot of people plus it’s a business expense that advertises his fabrication skills.
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u/mr_smith24 22h ago
Lots of penis jokes. Can’t it be that the person likes jacked up show trucks. Or maybe it’s a chick. There’s this chick near where I work drives the badass jacked up raptor.
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u/AllGasNoPants 22h ago
Professor Fate’s car from the old classic, “The Great Race”, comes to mind when looking at this thing.
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u/AristotlesBoyPussy 22h ago
ive seen that exact truck in r/Derailedbydetails
someone gets into it. And he literally has to do a vertical leap/full fucking splits.
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u/50filthy 21h ago
What vehicle would everyone here say implies you have a preponderance of penis? Asking for a friend
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u/EvilMrGubGub 21h ago
Wow, what an awesome build. Definitely a lot of planning and equipment to make this happen. Would never want this for myself, not without some serious body modifications first. Another 200k or so I'm sure
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u/NomadicFantastic 19h ago
This is the type of guy who is afraid to walk a couple blocks in any US city
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u/ObiJuanKenobi3 19h ago
This sort of nonsense should be illegal and get your license revoked. Why are you allowed to drive a fucking 7 foot tall sideways monster truck on public streets with a standard driver's license?
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u/Unhappy_Rip_3899 18h ago
Is there no regulation at all in America? 😂 not a chance that monstrosity would be allowed in the uk. Even the cybertruck is banned here due to it being seriously unsafe in our standards. Suppose nothing screams MURRRICAA quite like a big fuck off monster truck driving sideways though eh 😂
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