So my highlighting of the former Governator’s Duramax Wagoneer went over about as well as Pickett’s Charge yesterday and McTaggart came at me today with a better option. Being the mean and spiteful person that I am, I decided that I needed to find something with a Jeep badge on it that would roll over McTaggart’s find, push it off a cliff, winch it back up the cliff, and then grind it into dust on the ground. I found that vehicle thanks to BangShifter John Eken who send an email tip to me with a link to the absolute behemoth of a hybrid Kaiser Jeep truck you see above and below. This thing was custom built using a deuce and a half truck as the start and then it went completely insane from there. It literally looks like something out of the movies and it is nice enough to have won the truck class at the 2014 Detroit Autorama.
For something of this extreme size, weight, and overall girth, the color choice was daring but we kind of like it. When you drive the truck through a row of buildings for fun and scratch it up, the painter may have a tough time matching it but you’ll never lose it in a parking lot, especially because it is 6 feet taller than anything else in said lot. The engine is a 478ci Hercules/White/Continental multi-fuel mill that is turbocharged and likely makes about 150hp or less. The torque number is decent but not too impressive. On the upside, it will run on literally anything flammable. From perfume to used oil, this is like a rolling liquid garbage disposal which you can cruise in comfort. On the utility front it has a dumping bed, although with seats in it, the dumping bed may be less than amusing for your passengers riding in the aft of the truck. It IS technically a Jeep because a percentage of the rig is a 1978 Kaiser-Jeep M35A2. It qualifies as a Jeep, right?
The slogging fun you could have in this truck is simply incalculable. From weekends invading neighboring towns to mud bogging and showing it is a perfect thing to drop the kids at school with, hit the local burger joint in, and gain access to premium parking spots in. Whatever minor inconvenience faces you, this truck would take it in stride. Mines? Meh. Snow? Please! Rain? Rain is afraid to touch this truck for fear of reprisals.
The sales listing for this truck is amazingly detailed and there are literally 100+ photos of it. Got about $130,000? Buy it!
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PHOTOS OF THIS MASSIVE JEEP ONE OF ONE RIG –
wonder what it smells like burning Eau de Toillete?
Forget that, I want to know what it smells like running on Milwakee’s Best or maybe even the Mexican white lable “BEER”…
Best line in the whole thing sounds like a Chuck Norris joke (though Chuck would wad this truck up like tin foil and play flick football with it):
“Rain? Rain is afraid to touch this truck for fear of reprisals.”
When Chuck went to look at this truck, the truck had to squint.
The only thing that will make this rig fast is a fuel tank full of Chuck Norris farts.
The bed and non-removable hardtop kill it for me. Also can’t tell if they did a PS conversion on it, which is the killer on the Deuce, they kick but but don’t have PS.
Wow, a Kaiser-Jeep AND a Deuce-and-a-half merged into one? That’s like chocolate and peanut butter, right there.
Awesome truck. I think you have to present a certified survivalist card to drive it though. A guy at Ft. Campbell had a bobbed Deuce as his daily driver. I just can’t imagine it as a daily. But if you got money a ranch and a fall out shelter, it doesn’t get better/tougher/more unique than this rig.
My son would love the seats in a dump bed feature. Stack up some old mattresses behind the truck, and he’d get in the seat and ask me to dump the bed for at least half an hour.