We’re back with another What The Truck. If you didn’t know by now, we’re fixated on the freaky with this column. Cars, trucks, vans, it doesn’t matter – We. Want. Weird.
Our first vehicle is a polished silver Corvette, although it’s a Corvette in body only. Found on the Awesome Car Mods subreddit, it was at first just another sweet ride to appreciate. But user basssteakman, who claimed to be friends with the owner, filled in the details.
“I work with the guy that built this and gave him a hand a time or two during its construction,” he said. “He spent several years putting it together and sold it about a year ago when he was in a pretty dark place (he’s better now, the military can be hard on us sometimes). It’s a 1976 Corvette body mounted on a mid-’90s Blazer frame. Almost everything to mount the body, engine, and transmission was custom-fabricated in his garage. One of the things that took him the longest to figure out was how to get the headlights right; he didn’t have room for the original pop-up fixtures because of the angle and location of the radiator. It was an incredible creation and I miss riding around in it and seeing the diehard Corvette guys loose their [minds] over it. Cheers Scott, you built one hell of a machine!”
Next up, the subreddit /r/battlecars had its own crazy contraptions on display. This is the place to visit if you love seeing lifted, Mad Max-esque cars, and this Cadillac El Dorado is the perfect example of what belongs on /r/battlecars.
If it’s a car riding on a truck frame, then it’s a car we want to see. This El Dorado is scant on details, but we can tell from the license plate that it’s registered in Alaska. Secondly, going by the grille design, it’s likely a 1973 model year. It probably began life carting around a banker or lawyer between his soirees and assignations, but it’ll definitely end life sucking muddy water into the carburetor.
So we promised you weird, but that will only get us so far. Case in point is this lifted boat-truck thing that has been posted all over the internet, but no one has any clue as to who, what, where, or why it’s been built.
It’s got monster truck wheels that are rusting badly, and massive monster truck tires to really bring the mean look home. We can tell from the graphics that this is a Molded Fiber Glass brand boat, a company based out of Ashtabula, Ohio that went defunct in the ’80s. The boats may never be coming back, but hopefully they’ll live on gloriously thanks to this radical build.
If you’ve been driving around town and seen something lifted and loony, then color us interested. Send pictures and details to contact@offroadxtreme.com and we’ll see if it makes the cut!