Contest Winners

As Jake said, we are two men raised in two very different parts of the country, and despite all our differences we have one thing in common - pickup trucks. Between the two of us, our trucks represent the Midwest and the Deep South, foreign and domestic, small and large, capped and uncapped, and we are open to many interpretations of the American art that is the pickup truck (we're not open to all of them...). To start our blog, here are some of our favorite pieces from around the country. We hope you enjoy.

Least Likely to Run


In our first category, we faced a two-way tie between these two American beauties:

In the first photo, we see what is believed to have been a Chevy S-10 with multiple flat tires, no bed or rear window, and some noticeable damage to the front end.

The second picture shows an ancient Chevy with a paintjob consisting of rust and primer, no windows, some flat tires, and a beautifully painted number 3 for all the Earnhardt fans driving by. It's a pretty safe bet that you won't see either of these trucks on the road any time soon, but they make beautiful yard ornaments.


Most Closely Resembling a Station Wagon

Although we could comment positively on this man's patriotism as displayed in his taillight covers and prominently displayed yellow ribbon or negatively on his remarkably unpatriotic parking job, this one actually takes the cake for looking like a station wagon. This is an unfortunate happening that often occurs when the truck is lowered and has a cap on the bed. The situation is not helped by blacked-out windows and an extra dose of chrome.


Work in Progress

There are certain parts of the country where custom trucks in-the-making are their own type of custom truck. Sure signs of this include lots of primer and multiple sets of taillights.

I must apologize for the quality of this image; it's not my style to roll into someone's driveway, snap a picture of a truck that they're hopefully not proud of, and poke fun at it on the internet. Those last two are my style, though, so here you go. It looks like this Chevy or GMC has freshly-installed Corvette style taillights in the bumper as well as the original taillights above. I can't tell if that's a custom mural on the left side of the tailgate, but the right side looks like they thought about painting it black when red, silver, blue, and yellow wasn't doing it for them. This truck is a work in progress.


Most Likely to be Mistaken for a Dumpster

How, you might ask, could a pickup truck resemble a dumpster? We hadn't thought of it ourselves, to be honest, but these two opened our eyes:

First, we see what looks like an old Toyota Tacoma of at least four different colors covered in garbage. Perhaps, with its mud tires and roll bar, it previously served as an inexpensive offroad vehicle or "drugrunner," but it now appears to serve quite well as an offroad trashcan.

The second vehicle here was a runner up for the next category, but it inevitably fell to this one. Although these images are not of the highest quality, your eyes do not deceive you if you think you see most of a bread truck with a pickup bed on the back. One would imagine this truck at some point had a (very) special job, but it's hard to say with words what it was. Now, with its flat tire and presumed retirement, it sits on the side of the road collecting something that you might see in a dumpster.


Most Unique

I was once corrected by an English teacher (English being the subject, not the teacher's nationality) for writing "very unique" since an object either is or is not unique. But when you've seen what I've seen, unique is not an on-off switch - it's a spectrum. This truck is all the way at the end of the spectrum (yes, the bad end).

I can't really do much justice here. A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words (particularly if the picture contains the words "fresh scalps - better plunder - more ponies" along with blood, guts, and evil-looking babies). Let's just say we didn't hang around to interview the guy.