"Two-Way" Pickup

"Two-Way" Pickup PICKUPS Miscellaneous 28-4-41 Here's a photo of a "two-way" pickup I put together in my shop. It's a 1978 Chevrolet 2-WD equipped with a 6-cyl. gas engine and a 4-speed manual transmission. I removed the bed and replaced it with an identical cab and nose, minus the engine. I also enclosed the area under the hood to make a big trunk. The add-on cab is equipped with a matching dash, matching foot pedals, matching seat, and matching door panels so when you walk up to the pickup there's no way to tell which end you get into to drive the rig. As a result, when you walk around the pickup you can't tell one end from the other. I wanted to make the machine street legal and equip it with tail lights, so I installed white lenses with red bulbs inside them that blink on and off. When you look at the white lenses you'd never know they were red tail lights, until the bulbs light up. At the time I built it I had a business and planned to use the two-way pickup to deliver parts. However, I decided it wasn't safe because it startled a lot of people when they would drive up behind me on the highway and think I was coming at them. I just drive it in a lot of parades. It's a real crowd pleaser. (Brad Carrell, P.O. Box 1768, Redmond, Oregon 97756 ph 541 923-0980)

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