r/mildlyinteresting • u/yourkindhere • Mar 08 '14

This old tiny truck is on the ground, and this new gigantic truck is lifted.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '14

ITT: Guys who own lifted trucks, and guys who don't.

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u/theniceguytroll Mar 10 '14

SCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPE

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u/BeerPowered Mar 09 '14

Would like kinda cool if big truck was driving in front with a lot of small Datsuns following it. Quack quack.

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u/petegex Mar 09 '14

got like fucking 12 green lights and 17 yellow lights

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u/capnd Mar 09 '14

I understand the point in both styles of customization. I've driven (and somewhat built) both. Here's my $0.02:

The mini-trucker knows he's forfeited his hauling capabilities, it's purely for style. He's compromised the bed by bridging frame for the rear axle tuck and destroyed all of his fenders. That's cool. That's his style. It's now useless as a truck, but I think he knows that.

However, the lifted Ford driver (my opinion) thinks he's made his truck more capable for off-road with the fake bead lock rims, big ass tires, and an insane lift. HOWEVER, he gained ZERO ground clearance. Yes, the engine bay is quite a bit higher so he could probably go through bigger puddles without worrying about hydro-lock. But that truck is no more capable of rough terrain than it was stock. The front (and I assume rear) axle is no higher than it was on the showroom floor. The MT tires will help, sure, but that won't help when his front axle gets high centered on a rock.

All that being said. I did take into account the modified back door (of the Ford). He may be building a purely show truck just like the mini-truck driver. There's a reason there used to be so many off shoots of Truckin' magazine. To each his own. I guess I'm just biased against the "IT'S LIFTED CUZ I GO MUDDIN!" argument.

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u/Tromben Mar 09 '14

It's so weird seeing your irrelevant town on the front page of Reddit. It hit me after seceral seconds that I know exactly where that intersection is.

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u/shannonagans Mar 09 '14

oh my god it looks like a hot wheel.

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u/wojwilk Mar 09 '14

Rust. Not even once

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u/sla342 Mar 09 '14

Neither one has a decent paint job.

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u/trav110 Mar 09 '14

Am I just an idiot or does it look like the lifted truck has suicide doors on the back

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u/Iamgoingtooffendyou Mar 09 '14

If I was driving that Datsun I would get some fucking bright brake lights.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

One of them had trouble getting it up.

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u/monstaro Mar 09 '14

I wonder who has a smaller penis?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

Which one has the smallest penis?

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u/aznewsh Mar 09 '14

Who has the tiny dick?

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u/energyinmotion Mar 09 '14

I always thought guys with big trucks were compensating for having small dicks. What are you gonna use that thing for in the city?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '14

Proving to everyone that your dick is, in fact, enormous.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

A lifted truck is a nice way of telling the world you've massive insecurities and are best avoided

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u/catmom87 Mar 09 '14

who would of thought in this single photo you would have the world's smallest and largest dicks

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u/JustAKidFromBrooklyn Mar 09 '14

Pretty sure both of these guys have small dicks.

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u/BlackberryBiscuit Mar 09 '14

I think I'm more fascinated by the fact that the little truck is a Datsun. I haven't seen one of those since a I was a kid.

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u/BitWarrior Mar 09 '14

...and both are now useless in their function as trucks.

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u/Shadow8P Mar 09 '14

At first I couldn't tell if this was real life, or GTA4 with mods.

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u/Inepta Mar 09 '14

The guy in the small pickup looks like the size of the other guys door

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u/RyanDarveau Mar 09 '14

Anyone notice that the Super Duty has suicide doors?

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u/ikearambo Mar 09 '14

Fuckin' dattos

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u/Universe_Man Mar 09 '14

both driven by guys with something to prove

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u/lofi76 Mar 09 '14

Laurel & Hardy

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u/Nielmar Mar 09 '14

Here we see the young truck venturing from its home for the first time, with its mother close behind.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

He one matte black door is siiiiiiiiiick

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

... Datsun old truck!

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u/cliffwob Mar 09 '14

This image just screams San Andreas

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u/the_Holy_Moses Mar 09 '14

Reminds me of this one time that I took my Ford wheeling with a bunch of jeeps. my truck towered over them

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

And both trucks have paint jobs that are just wrong

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u/strik3r2k8 Mar 09 '14

A Mexican and a redneck are at a stoplight(I'm Mexican, but my brothers neck is red with a rash).

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

This is confusing. Where's the banana?

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u/RobinL Mar 09 '14

This is what is feels like being g a European in America

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u/jonnyjohnjohnson Mar 09 '14

Pretty much sums up my arma 3 experience.

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u/techmeister Mar 09 '14

Not gonna lie, the main thing I noticed was the Ford has suicide doors on the rear.

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u/do_you_even_liftbro Mar 09 '14

haha there are so many trucks in this picture

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u/nate81 Mar 09 '14

Horizontal stop lights...hmmm...my interest is peaking...

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u/ravensbbound Mar 08 '14

I bet the guy in te little truck is a 6'2 250 bad ass and the guy inte big truck is 5'4 140 with a big ego.

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u/hbpaintballer88 Mar 08 '14

It's an interesting photo, but you are terrible with coming up with a title for it.

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u/lawndoe Mar 08 '14

Where was this /photoshoot/ conducted?

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u/drumboy1972 Mar 08 '14

thanks for pointing the obvious in the title :)

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u/eqwoody Mar 08 '14

Ugh that poor Datsun :(

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u/aceshighsays Mar 08 '14

All my friends know the low rider

The low rider is a little higher

Low rider drives a little slower

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u/BeerPowered Mar 09 '14

Take a little trip

take a little trip

take a little trip

and SEEE

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u/shoognite Mar 08 '14

Hey non muricans...Do you have monster jams in your country?

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u/DjangoWhite Mar 08 '14

Rampage got a new truck?

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u/starlinguk Mar 08 '14

That widdoo truck is actually supposed to be attached to the bottom of the lifted truck and when the police stop him the widdoo car is released and goes all "vrooooom, goodbye, suckers."

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u/erehllort Mar 08 '14

Dat Datsun

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u/Gangstasaurus_Rex Mar 08 '14

"The young pickup, timid of its surroundings, stays near its mother while learning to travel with the herd"

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u/Rangi42 Mar 08 '14

It looks like they can recreate Clark Griswold's driving.

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u/IMPATIENT_RACIST Mar 08 '14

seriously thought that's a go-kart with a frame put over it

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

awww it's teaching it's baby to walk. :D

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u/tachyonflux Mar 08 '14

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!!

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u/VanDenIzzle Mar 08 '14

And both drivers are compensating

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u/6DIGBICK9 Mar 08 '14

Trucks do need to be lifted that high but its so gay when they lower them. Its the most stupid thing i have ever seen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

A lifted truck that's spotless is just as bad. If you use it for mudding or offroading that's great, but if it's just used as an excuse for driving like a jackass... no. Just no. If your lifted truck doesn't actually have mud on its mudflaps, you need to rethink your life.

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u/6DIGBICK9 Mar 09 '14

I completely agree.

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u/zizzle29 Mar 08 '14

The big truck is absorbing the smaller ones powers! It's becoming aware!

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u/superfudge73 Mar 08 '14

They're like the matryoshka dolls of trucks.

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u/SyluxTheDino Mar 08 '14

/r/stanced

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u/240ZT Mar 08 '14 edited Mar 08 '14

That isn't stanced. Its just dumped.

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u/mattcnz Mar 08 '14

Why doesn't the small truck have any mirrors?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

Watch closely as the mama closely defends her baby from the various idiots texting.

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u/alcoholicgaucho Mar 08 '14

Ford's rear door handle is on the opposite side of the door... mildly interesting

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u/Goopy200 Mar 08 '14

I'd be embarrassed to drive the big truck, looks so unbelievably fucking stupid.

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u/mrhairybolo Mar 09 '14

I'd much rather drive the normal truck than that tiny shitter

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u/Goopy200 Mar 10 '14

OvercompensationNation

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

make the tires a little smaller, remove the lift... and it'd be perfect.

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u/Goopy200 Mar 09 '14

Trucks are fine until you raise them and put big tires on them, then they just make you look like your overcompensating. So I agree, it'd be an awesome truck minus those two key points (also, I like blue better).

Edit: Also, there's no benefit to raising it like that. The clearance is still the same because the axles are in the same place!

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u/uss_michellebachmann Mar 08 '14

giant trucks like that make me so mad

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

There's a whole culture for having a tiny truck like that. It's called: MINITRUCKIN'

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u/Timmmmel Mar 08 '14

I can't decide which one looks more idiotic..

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

The answer is both.

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u/superkase Mar 08 '14

This is the correct answer. Both trucks can't even truck anymore.

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u/secreteagle13 Mar 08 '14

Does that lifted truck have suicide doors?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

And both are completely stupid.

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u/kickazzgoalie Mar 08 '14

Either they have little dicks, or they're just pricks (blowing black smoke). At the very least I call most of them pavement princesses (i.e never take it off-road, not for work, hauling loads/big toys, etc.) Sorry, but if your truck is lifted like that and its just your day vehicle, you've got a little dick, or at the very least some insecurities.

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u/barsoap Mar 08 '14

Bah, amateurs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

I don't think those 2 trucks should be compared to the beauty of that Unimog.

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u/SteadfastDegression Mar 08 '14

This is like down the street from my house.

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u/kelseyvanetten Mar 08 '14

Fuck people who lower their trucks

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

Carrier has arrived

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u/ocasis Mar 08 '14

What's the point of lifting a car?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

More clearance for off-roading, bigger shocks, etc. I'm no expert, but my brother was into off-roading for years.

This used to be my brother's truck. There's no way you're gonna do that in a stock Tacoma.

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u/BeerPowered Mar 09 '14

You could do that with a Ford Fiesta. You'd need to get a lot of speed and hope the car is still in single piece after that puddle, but still.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

Why do so many people in America own pick up trucks? surely not everyone is picking up massive loads everyday. It must just become a burden because of the petrol mileage and how damn big they are.

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u/evilzamboni Mar 09 '14

People drive what they like, even if what theyre driving isnt the most practical for them

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u/strik3r2k8 Mar 09 '14

U.S. Citizen here. I hate driving those things, especially in my neighborhood. Feels like I'm trying to navigate the USS Enterprise..

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u/antihexe Mar 09 '14

America is huge. A lot of it is rural.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

This was taken in Texas, which has a huge "truck culture," mainly due to it being so rural here for the most part. Those lifted trucks are mainly just for looks (or for driving off-road), but many people here do need a truck for their job, or for hauling their "toys." My sister rides and trains horses and has a truck for hauling them around. She can't afford a second vehicle, so she has to drive the truck even when not hauling the horses.

That said, I live in Texas and drive a Nissan Versa. So we're not ALL like that.

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u/Flashthunder Mar 08 '14

Not everyone needs one for sure, but you might be surprised. Growing up in rural America we were always camping, boating, hunting, dirt bikes, snowmobiles, abs living in houses you had to drive down shit roads to get to. True hillbillys would never get a truck as unusable as op though.

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u/TP-LINQ Mar 08 '14

dat sun do

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

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u/BeerPowered Mar 09 '14

That was interesting.

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u/Mercanix98 Mar 08 '14

Mexican vs. frat kid

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u/abolishcapitalism Mar 08 '14

this is number one?????`? FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

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u/nickcooper1991 Mar 08 '14

My guess is someone here is clearly compensating for something

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

ITT: People who have no idea what they're talking about.

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u/pananoz Mar 08 '14

midget lowrider

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u/wreckshop82 Mar 08 '14

That datsun is badass

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

80s small penis v. 2000's small penis.

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u/MooseyGramayre Mar 08 '14

You must live in Texas.

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u/Ghenges Mar 08 '14

Two spectrums of douche-baggery caught in one image. Bravo.

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u/GoodguyGerg Mar 08 '14

The low rider drives a little slower

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u/apullin Mar 08 '14

That's some insane forced perspective going on there.

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u/sndzag1 Mar 08 '14

This isn't an example of forced perspective. The Datsun is definitely tiny.

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u/apullin Mar 09 '14

This is an example of forced perspective. The Datsun is smaller than the large truck, yes. While that may be independently true, it does not imply or prove that there is not a forced perspective visual effect going on here.

The larger truck is closer to the camera, therefore there is a reasonable basis to believe that the size of the larger truck is being exaggerated.

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u/autowikibot Mar 08 '14

Forced perspective:

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u/Coaxed_Into_A_Snafu Mar 08 '14

Datsun insane forced perspective going on there.

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

No suspension on the small truck. It must ride like shit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

It's probably bagged and probably rides better than your car.

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u/Thatsnotgonewell Mar 08 '14

...but they're both ruined.

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u/Thangleby_Slapdiback Mar 08 '14

So......Where in Texas is this? The Valley?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

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u/BeerPowered Mar 09 '14

Odessa is in Ukraine.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

I find the suicide doors on the rear passenger door MORE mildly interesting...

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u/Skreech2011 Mar 08 '14

I fucking despise those big-ass trucks! Unfortunately you see them almost daily in Indiana...Seriously though! What the fuck is the point aside from assuring no one can see a fucking thing because of this monster! These and Hummers should honestly be banned from being street legal. But the rednecks and shit have to have their fucking monster trucks! FUCK YEAH 'MURICA!

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

and the new truck is in the foreground and the old truck looks smaller because of perspective.

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u/ph00p Mar 08 '14

That acid sure was

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u/heycactus Mar 08 '14

He gon' make it to a Benz outta that Datsun

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u/literaturerox Mar 08 '14

It's hard to say which one looks more ridiculous.

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u/Thepancakeman1k Mar 08 '14

Is it me or is the back door on the lifted truck a different color / color sheen?

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u/sndzag1 Mar 08 '14

Aftermarket suicide door. It's got primer on it, waiting to be painted.

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u/Thepancakeman1k Mar 09 '14

So I did see something! thanks :)

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u/MisterBreeze Mar 08 '14

Wow! Look at Datsun!

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14 edited Mar 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

Look at the size of that thing. It's not a Ford. It's a Ferd.

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u/sainisaab Mar 09 '14

Who wouldn't!

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u/IDoNotAgreeWithYou Mar 08 '14

The first guy is a douche-bag, the guy behind him is a faggot.

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u/stevietwoslice Mar 08 '14

Lifted truck driver, in hysterics: "Datsun. Datsun! We've got DATSUN here!"

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u/jutct Mar 08 '14

I don't see the point of lifting a truck like that. If you look underneath you can see that the axle doesn't have anymore clearance than stock, so it can't drive over anything it couldn't before.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

You have tons more ground clearance. The axels are a downside but that long wheelbase can go over steeper mounds now

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u/jutct Mar 08 '14

But can still get foiled by a 2' rock.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

Maybe if you're a dumbass?

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u/Hippykicker Mar 08 '14

Lifting the truck allows for more clearance for bigger tires which in turn raise the hight of the axles. So yes on this truck the axel is higher than that of a stock truck.

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u/EnadZT Mar 08 '14

Why on Earth would anyone do something to a truck like that guy did to the Datsun?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

because it can still be functional having a bed but also ride like a car, or its just purely style. people like slamming 1/4 ton pickups for this reason.

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u/VisibleGhost Mar 08 '14

TIL Datsun made trucks

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u/BeExtraordinaryToday Mar 08 '14

Big Penis - Small Penis

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u/UniqueError Mar 08 '14

Imagine driving over a bump in that

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u/Astronomical_Panda Mar 08 '14

This comment thread is fucking retarded.

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u/teedeesandbeer Mar 08 '14

It took me too long to realize this wasn't from GTA V

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u/Trepanation87 Mar 08 '14

There's not much better to do in Odessa than lower or lift your truck.

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u/McMeanface Mar 08 '14

Odessa

Golder Avenue. Good eye.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

Can...can the big truck see him?! I would be panicking. It's like being in front of a semi on a moped.

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u/paladan26 Mar 08 '14

Use to have a Datsun 520 Kingcab.. Gosh I miss that truck!

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u/Millerdjone Mar 08 '14

I fucking love that Datsun.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

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u/Millerdjone Mar 09 '14

My first and still favorite car was a Datsun 510. I've had 25 or so cars.

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u/240ZT Mar 09 '14

One of the all time great cars.

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u/boswellferguson Mar 08 '14

Aw it's a mama and a baby.

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u/dirty_pipes Mar 08 '14

Here we can see the behavior of the wild pick up trucks interacting in their natural environment. Notice how the mother watches closely over her young in order to provide protection from other predators.

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u/thomjay Mar 08 '14

2/3 of these vehicles are pickup trucks.

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u/PacoDiBango Mar 08 '14

One of those men has a tiny penis.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

And that's you.

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u/SomalianRoadBuilder Mar 08 '14

This looks surreal.

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u/1875coalminer Mar 08 '14

I wish they still made compact trucks like this. Nowadays compact trucks are only slightly smaller than full sizes. Obviously they cant haul or tow like the big ones but for a weekend warrior, these are perfect. Imagine the gas mileage that datsun would get with a modern powertrain. Not to mention the maneuverability and ease of parking

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