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Old 08-30-2009, 08:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Serendipitous Aero Truck Cap

I was recently on an overnight road trip.
When I woke up in the morning at the restaurant we were stopping at, I saw this:



A hatchback car was parked backwards behind a pickup truck. The angles lined up just right to look like some sort of aero-mod to the bed!


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Old 08-30-2009, 08:33 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I thought the same thing when I first saw it before reading . :P
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Old 08-30-2009, 08:38 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I thought "the angle is too steep!" and also "where's ben nelson been recently?"


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