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KFC911 07-16-2024 11:35 AM

I just saw one .... it was hideous ...
 
I giggled :)

".... Say Rev. Jim.... here, take some really bad acid... now go design a "Back To The Fugly Truck"....

And you just know the driver can't walk away from it without looking back ;)

PRESTIGE .... yeah :D

masraum 07-16-2024 12:01 PM

LOL! Yep.

Someone in Houston "fixed" one...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1721160022.jpg

Somewhere there's a half a dozen surviving Pontiac Aztek's having a party. "We're no longer the ugliest..."

speeder 07-16-2024 12:07 PM

You just saw your first Cybertruck? You must be deep in the sticks….can’t swing a dead cat around here without hitting one of them for the last year or so. Yes, they are ugly.

masraum 07-16-2024 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by speeder (Post 12285195)
You just saw your first Cybertruck? You must be deep in the sticks….can’t swing a dead cat around here without hitting one of them for the last year or so. Yes, they are ugly.

LA is pretty much the Automotive mecca of the US. You probably see just about everything before anyone else, and then see more of them. Being the second largest city probably doesn't hurt (essentially the largest when it comes to cars, NYC not exactly being super car friendly).

908/930 07-16-2024 12:12 PM

I have never seen one, people around here must have good taste in cars. That looks like a high school sheet metal project gone wrong, what a waste of stainless steel. Speaking of Stainless I did see a DeLorean DMC12 on the road last week, that still looked quite good.

Dixie 07-16-2024 12:14 PM

I was behind a Cybertruck yesterday. It's not the electric part I don't get. It just looks like it wouldn't be a very good truck. Anyway, unless it was Brian Johnson driving, people were going crazy over the truck. They were beeping horns, hanging out windows, giving things up...

Thinking about it, it was definitely the truck. Everyone was way too young to know who Brian Johnson is

LWJ 07-16-2024 12:20 PM

I see people on social media experiencing these for the first time. Shock and awe.

masraum 07-16-2024 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by 908/930 (Post 12285200)
I have never seen one, people around here must have good taste in cars. That looks like a high school sheet metal project gone wrong, what a waste of stainless steel. Speaking of Stainless I did see a DeLorean DMC12 on the road last week, that still looked quite good.

And the freakin' crazy thing is that apparently, the steel that they used is rusting. I don't remember hearing about rusty DeLoreans, so I assume they used a different (fit for purpose) stainless alloy.

We used to have a place in Houston that had a bunch of DeLoreans. I think it was a shop, and they had a bunch of spares. I have no idea if it's still around, that was 20 years ago. I actually worked with a guy that had one about 20 years ago.

VINMAN 07-16-2024 12:37 PM

I don't know, I think they're kind hot...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1721162256.jpg

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WPOZZZ 07-16-2024 01:24 PM

There was one behind me a couple weeks ago late at night. Couldn't figure out what it was because the lights were so weird. Giant light bar at the edge of the hood with headlights very low.

craigster59 07-16-2024 01:33 PM

I kind of like it. But then, I liked the AMC Gremlin when they first came out.

JavaBrewer 07-16-2024 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by speeder (Post 12285195)
You just saw your first Cybertruck? You must be deep in the sticks….can’t swing a dead cat around here without hitting one of them for the last year or so. Yes, they are ugly.

LA is different. I agree with Denis. I have been commuting between San Diego and Santa Barbara lately and Teslas are near as abundant as botts dots in LA. It does not make sense, SoCal is very strong in car culture and standing out from the crowd. I have been in traffic many times within eye sight of 3-4 Teslas...they all look the same. In one day I saw 10+ cyber trucks, 3 were painted/wrapped in gloss black, the others stainless. No way to say it other than many Tesla owners are plugged into the Borg and their vehicles are boring and design and appearance.

Now if your bag is stop light launches then Tesla has you covered...except in LA where the chances you will be lined up against another Tesla are strong.

Bob Kontak 07-16-2024 01:41 PM

OP's hideous is spot on. If you are being kind, extremely peculiar or as our UK friends say, interesting.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dixie (Post 12285202)
Everyone was way too young to know who Brian Johnson is

Here he is at VIR in 2016. I got to meet him for a little second. I just want to shake your hand I said. He asked What?

The car is a Royale RP4

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1721165640.jpg

Here he is at Sebring from YouTube. Peppy car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFCjzl0UJmU

Shaun @ Tru6 07-16-2024 01:51 PM

We saw another one parked at the beach last night. A Dodge K car is more interesting to come across, which is not at all.

Tobra 07-16-2024 01:59 PM

The OP must live somewhere with a lower a-hole density than LA, which is pretty much anywhere else

Heard they do not have a normal wiring harness, more like those cheapo Christmas lights where one goes, you ose all of them⁴

Bob Kontak 07-16-2024 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6 (Post 12285280)
A Dodge K car is more interesting to come across, which is not at all.

A friend just ditched his 52 Plymouth Cranbrook for this Reliant.

I'm not even going to tell him what you said.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1721167420.jpg

masraum 07-16-2024 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VINMAN (Post 12285227)
I don't know, I think they're kind hot...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1721162256.jpg

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ROFLMAO!

Genius! EV + salt water. I wonder if he had a "saltwater life" sticker...

KFC911 07-16-2024 02:17 PM

Dawgs won't ride in 'em :D

HobieMarty 07-16-2024 02:53 PM

I saw one on a flat bed truck in Atlanta a while back. It was white, I assume wrapped. There were a couple of other vehicles on the flat bed as well, and they were also white.

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red 928 07-16-2024 03:21 PM

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