This truck owner groks bad aero
 

https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1618059477


:D


Anyone know what it even is?



Maybe an old truck bed camper?

Toyota pick up 70 series with the bed removed and a pop top camper installed. R-20 engine typically. Neighbor had one that I wrenched on, generally got 20ish mpg on the highway but ran slowly up any hill. They could top out at 80 on a new engine.

Btw: if the owner truly GROKKED the vehicle, it could be modified for better performance, or worst case remove the sign.

Could you post an image of such a base pickup truck?

Your description includes original taillights, correct?

My first thought was an International pickup truck, but the tail lights do NOT match. Neither did any of the Toyota taillights I looked at.

I thought the tail lights looked International-ish also.

Definitely a chinook pop top:

1975 toyota, same taillights:

https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1618071883

Year unk:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1618071883

Decades back I had a fleet of various trucks in a very niche service industry. I tried to take care of them, chrome bumpers. polished alum wheels, fresh Imron paint jobs, etc. One of my numb-nuts workers screwed up the rollup back door on one of the trucks, and in a picque of anger loss of self control, I spray painted a rather vitriolic message on the subject boldly on the door before it went to the shop for repairs.

Before it went in for repairs, I was driving the truck locally when I got forwarded to my cell phone a call from a concerned unknown fellow driver, wanting to inform the office some one had graffiti-ed one of our truck's back doors. I listened respectfully, and informed him, yes, I know, I own the truck, I am one who did it, and I am the driving the truck.

He promptly hung up.;)

43 years old? Ha!

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zDwAA...LQp/s-l300.jpg
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zDwAA...LQp/s-l300.jpg

Cardboard and Sharpie is no excuse for bad penmanship. https://brownsbuses.com/

https://brownsbuses.com/wp-content/u...signs_1300.jpg

My favorite is "I CAN go slower".

Nice work. I had no doubt someone would know. Score another point for the hivemind!

I regularly drive by a "ran when parked" Toyota cab/chassis from the same generation as the bottom, older one. It even has duallies. The camper part was removed long ago. The truck looks a bit like a blank canvas now.

Ran when parked, 5 years ago:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/member-v...406-124649.jpg
New battery, fired right up.

My favorite bumper sticker was:
"Warning, If I drive faster, parts might fall off"