DeathBunny  06-12-2003
11:53 PM ET (US)
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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! :/
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pm 06-10-2003
11:25 PM ET (US)
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pcd2k: thank ernie
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ernie 06-10-2003
11:17 PM ET (US)
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" 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?
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blah 06-10-2003
10:01 PM ET (US)
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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.
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pcd2k 06-10-2003
09:58 PM ET (US)
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thanks chico haas I really dig the gif animation email button on this site
http://jeepney.man.freeservers.com/
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aha 06-10-2003
09:47 PM ET (US)
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I'd like to see what Roger Wood could do with one of these.
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chico haas 06-10-2003
06:42 PM ET (US)
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"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.
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Eli the Bearded 06-10-2003
04:00 PM ET (US)
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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.
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secret agent toast 06-10-2003
03:50 PM ET (US)
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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... :)
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Eli the Bearded 06-10-2003
01:37 PM ET (US)
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These things seem a lot less practical than art cars. I mean
where in Japan can you park a truck?
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TimmyT 06-10-2003
12:03 PM ET (US)
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These things look more like parade floats than trucks.
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ernie 06-10-2003
11:31 AM ET (US)
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chico haas 06-10-2003
11:26 AM ET (US)
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Cool if a truck exceeds its own load capacity.
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pcd2k 06-10-2003
10:55 AM ET (US)
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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 ?
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Chris Johnson 06-10-2003
03:57 AM ET (US)
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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.
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secret agent toast 06-10-2003
02:30 AM ET (US)
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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.
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