Too bad 99% of people who own trucks like this are ya-chans and right wing bastages! All hail the emperor and the imperial family! :/

pcd2k: thank ernie

" I'd take pictures, but it's actually illegal to watch them from the side of the road. "
Eh?! It's illegal to watch bikers from the side of the road in Okinawa?

I'm in Okinawa and for ~ every 100 trucks, you might see 5 or 10 of these. Beyond the artform, these trucks are tied in with a subculture vaugly associated with the underworld (hence all the tattoed motifs). The local motor cycle gangs tend to put really fancy "head dresses" on the front of their stolen motor cycles and "whale tales" on the rear. I'd take pictures, but it's actually illegal to watch them from the side of the road. Also, there's a van driver's subculture as well... they like to put huge whale tales on their vanes. Low riders are starting to become very popular.

thanks chico haas I really dig the gif animation email button on this site
http://jeepney.man.freeservers.com/

I'd like to see what Roger Wood could do with one of these.

"A dump truck can carry a lot of stuff, but its not suited for casual use."

That's such a funny line I needed to see it by itself.

Secret Agent, I hate parking my wife's station wagon because
it is so damn long. But at least the station wagon seats five
with space for the dog. A dump truck can carry a lot of stuff,
but its not suited for casual use.

less practical than art cars? you've obvously never tried to park an 7'6" wide art car within San Francisco- I still don't know how my Uncle manages to drive that beast around. We have enough problems with our big ol' '68 Mopar Art Car... :)

These things seem a lot less practical than art cars. I mean
where in Japan can you park a truck?

These things look more like parade floats than trucks.

Edited by author 06-10-2003 11:34 AM
Some Phillipine Jeepneys, here and here too, ok, and here as well.

Cool if a truck exceeds its own load capacity.

Have you checked out all of the pages ?
About a dozen and navigation is in reverse that is you keep hitting the back button.

Anyway all this exagerated building beyond the confines of the manufactured speaks heaps of a culture that is intensely confined within its built environment whereas the transference of mythological identities is deeply embedded within their own cultural identities.

Phillipine bus owners do a similiar thing but on a quintessentially different cultural topic although I haven't got a link to them, maybe someone could find one ?

I never thought I'd say this. Too much chrome. The night shots... *shudder*... I feel like I should be looking for a lever to pull at the side.

damn. Looks like the wife and I better start crackin' on the art car some more. It's lookin' downright tame compared to these beasts! Just the other day we were talking about our next art car, and how if it was a Honda how we could make it look like a transformer/Gundam theme. Our current one is a '68 Dodge, and I just don't think the Mecha theme would fit... We're going with a more Barbarella theme instead.