Pelican Parts
Parts Catalog Accessories Catalog How To Articles Tech Forums
Call Pelican Parts at 888-280-7799
Shopping Cart Cart | Project List | Order Status | Help



Go Back   Pelican Parts Forums > Miscellaneous and Off Topic Forums > Off Topic Discussions


Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread
Author
Thread Post New Thread    Reply
?
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 30,401
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

Old 07-16-2024, 11:35 AM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #1 (permalink)
Back in the saddle again
 
masraum's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 55,841
LOL! Yep.

Someone in Houston "fixed" one...



Somewhere there's a half a dozen surviving Pontiac Aztek's having a party. "We're no longer the ugliest..."
__________________
Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
Old 07-16-2024, 12:01 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #2 (permalink)
Team California
 
speeder's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: los angeles, CA.
Posts: 41,153
Garage
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.
__________________
Denis
Old 07-16-2024, 12:07 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #3 (permalink)
Back in the saddle again
 
masraum's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 55,841
Quote:
Originally Posted by speeder View Post
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).
__________________
Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
Old 07-16-2024, 12:10 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #4 (permalink)
Registered
 
908/930's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2012
Location: BC, Canada
Posts: 2,191
Garage
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.
__________________
87 930,
Old 07-16-2024, 12:12 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #5 (permalink)
Southern Class & Sass
 
Dixie's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Bradenton, FL
Posts: 3,999
Garage
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
__________________
Dixie
Bradenton, FL
2013 Camaro ZL1
Old 07-16-2024, 12:14 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #6 (permalink)
 
LWJ LWJ is online now
Registered
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Oswego, OR
Posts: 6,049
I see people on social media experiencing these for the first time. Shock and awe.
Old 07-16-2024, 12:20 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #7 (permalink)
Back in the saddle again
 
masraum's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 55,841
Quote:
Originally Posted by 908/930 View Post
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.
__________________
Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
Old 07-16-2024, 12:32 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #8 (permalink)
Parrothead member
 
VINMAN's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Monmouth county, NJ USA
Posts: 13,825
I don't know, I think they're kind hot...



.
__________________
Vinny
Red '86 944, 05 Ford Super Duty Dually '02 Ram 3500 Diesel 4x4 Dually, '07Jeep Wrangler '62 Mercury Meteor '90 Harley 1200 XL
"Live your Life in such a way that the Westboro Baptist Church will want to picket your funeral."
Old 07-16-2024, 12:37 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #9 (permalink)
Registered
 
WPOZZZ's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Honolulu, HI
Posts: 9,815
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.
__________________
'24 Tesla Model 3, '22 Tesla Model Y
'19 Tacoma
'06 Carrera, '79 930
'06 S4 Avant
Old 07-16-2024, 01:24 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #10 (permalink)
Registered
 
craigster59's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Gilbert, Az
Posts: 21,675
Garage
I kind of like it. But then, I liked the AMC Gremlin when they first came out.
__________________
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

"There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule" - Mark Twain
Old 07-16-2024, 01:33 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #11 (permalink)
Registered
 
JavaBrewer's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: North County San Diego
Posts: 8,813
Garage
Quote:
Originally Posted by speeder View Post
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.

Last edited by JavaBrewer; 07-16-2024 at 01:40 PM..
Old 07-16-2024, 01:33 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #12 (permalink)
 
Fleabit peanut monkey
 
Bob Kontak's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: North Canton, Ohio
Posts: 20,692
Garage
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 View Post
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



Here he is at Sebring from YouTube. Peppy car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFCjzl0UJmU
__________________
1981 911SC Targa

Last edited by Bob Kontak; 07-16-2024 at 01:46 PM..
Old 07-16-2024, 01:41 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #13 (permalink)
Registered
 
Shaun @ Tru6's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Cambridge, MA
Posts: 44,267
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.
__________________
Tru6 Restoration & Design
Old 07-16-2024, 01:51 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #14 (permalink)
Control Group
 
Tobra's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Carmichael, CA
Posts: 53,469
Garage
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
__________________
She was the kindest person I ever met
Old 07-16-2024, 01:59 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #15 (permalink)
Fleabit peanut monkey
 
Bob Kontak's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: North Canton, Ohio
Posts: 20,692
Garage
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6 View Post
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.

__________________
1981 911SC Targa
Old 07-16-2024, 02:04 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #16 (permalink)
Back in the saddle again
 
masraum's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 55,841
Quote:
Originally Posted by VINMAN View Post
I don't know, I think they're kind hot...



.
ROFLMAO!

Genius! EV + salt water. I wonder if he had a "saltwater life" sticker...
__________________
Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
Old 07-16-2024, 02:10 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #17 (permalink)
?
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 30,401
Dawgs won't ride in 'em
Old 07-16-2024, 02:17 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #18 (permalink)
Registered
 
HobieMarty's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Opelika, Alabama
Posts: 4,912
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.

Sent from my SM-S916U using Tapatalk
__________________
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Wonka
Old 07-16-2024, 02:53 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #19 (permalink)
Location: Galt's Gulch
 
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 4,890

Old 07-16-2024, 03:21 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #20 (permalink)
Reply


 


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 07:52 AM.


 
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0
Copyright 2025 Pelican Parts, LLC - Posts may be archived for display on the Pelican Parts Website -    DMCA Registered Agent Contact Page
 

DTO Garage Plus vBulletin Plugins by Drive Thru Online, Inc.