One of the many reasons that the BangShift readership rules all others is because whenever you see something in your internet or physical travels you whack a photo, save the link, and then send it to us. With an army of car crazed BangShifters prowling the Earth, we always have interesting content that other people don’t have yet. That’s cool. This truck is a prime example of that situation. A reader was cruising Craigslist and he found this 1979 Dodge D-50 truck that is oddly incredibly. How so? Well, the engine is mounted in the cab where the driver and passenger would have taken up resident and the driver was relocated into the bed within the comfy confines of a steel tube roll cage. Seriously, you need to see the photos to believe it. You can see the steering shaft passing through the cab in some photos.

The engine that now owns the cab is a nitrous fed Chrysler 360 that is crammed full of the best speed parts the 1970s had to offer. The area where the engine was formerly housed contains only a radiator and some other small items. Yhe real trip to us is that the driver needs to be looking through two windshields in order to drive this thing properly.We’re not sure why that fact has trumped all of the other obvious ones when looking at the truck, but it did. The open air driver’s compartment is nice with two racing style buckets wedged in so you and a companion can view the world through a pair of windshields together. Seriously, wouldn’t sun glare be a problem? Sorry, I am really hung up on that part of the truck.

The truck was built to be drag raced apparently, at least according to the ad. with the engine so far back and the driver in the rear as well, there seems to be plenty of traction available. As you will see in the video below, the truck launches hard and seems to pull like a train away from the camera. The driver does it twice and each time I was thinking, “Man, that truck is actually fast?!” Cornering must be interesting. Balance-wise, the truck is probably pretty good, but steering it from that far away from the front end looks dicey. Plus, you are basically sitting between the rear tubs so the actual sensation of cornering must be different as you are basically on top of the pivot point of the truckster.

Go ahead and look at this truck while trying not to be blinded by its greatness. We dare you.

Thanks for the tip, Tom!

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CRAIGSLIST FIND: A COMPLETELY BIZARRE REAR DRIVE, MID ENGINE DODGE D-50 TRUCK