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Nick WrightCybertrucks are out, this year we're bringing back the 1973 Automecca Sportsvan
Anke@nickthewright Is there no door on the driver side?
hazelnot 
@Anke @nickthewright just climb in through the window smh
drhoopoe@Anke @nickthewright One presumably leaps in through the window Dukes of Hazzard-style.
@drhoopoe I was just about to suggest the same thing. Ain't nobody got time for walking around to the other side!
Jay@Anke @nickthewright The front of the car from windshield to bumper just pops open and you crawl inside.
Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.
Isaac Freeman
The Tentacled Horror@Anke @nickthewright you just press E and the camera shifts to the driver's seat
Jef Poskanzer@Anke @nickthewright That's what the roof hatch is for. You drop in already in your seat, just like in Thunderbirds Are Go.
Sir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽Originally the Brubaker Box.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brubaker_Box
A really cool kit car design, but only a few dozen were ever completed. Every once in a while someone floats the idea of restarting production, but finding donor Beetles is getting more difficult.
Edit. I'm just going to add that I used to see adverts for these in the back of Popular Science and a few car magazines back in the day. I thought they looked especially neat.
When Dad eventually got a van it was an '84 Plymouth Voyager, which, as you can imagine was a huge letdown. 😆
Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @nickthewright feels like there should be a new base car for kit cars. The VW bug body kit thing was just a really fun culture. My neighbor had one that looked like an Italian supercar, maybe a squatty little Ferrari, and I thought that was the coolest thing. But, cars are so complicated and they change so often, and safety equipment is so much more intrusive in the car body, not sure how you could do something like it today. The Beetle was uniquely long-lived and simple.
Oh, I agree.
The "cars and coffee" equivalents in the '70s and early '80s were neat because of all the strange kit cars that would turn up.
You'd get various takes on the Meyers Manx, the Porsche 907/917 knock-offs, lots of wild home-builts, and so on.
Like you're saying, cars are just so much more complicated now, and the Beetles are drying up without any good replacements for the kit car segment.
Frank Going AntiFa - 🇺🇦@nickthewright
A rear transaxle! Sweet!
A rear transaxle! Sweet!
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️
𝗠𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗠𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗠𝗔𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀@nickthewright
learned something new today
learned something new today
Leefeller Guy@nickthewright 1973 part of MAGA?
Rick Calkins@nickthewright
Mr. Nick, please add #weirdcarmastodon to this post to receive even more replies to a vehicle like yours. Thanks!
Mr. Nick, please add #weirdcarmastodon to this post to receive even more replies to a vehicle like yours. Thanks!
lori@nickthewright the only reason I didn't buy this when I was looking to get a truck is because I like modern safety features like idk seatbelts
I did however see this exact truck on the interstate a couple weeks later and got really excited to see it in person it was like a celebrity sighting
@nickthewright trucks used to be good
@nickthewright when I was shopping for trucks I kept sending stuff like this to my mom saying I was going to buy them and she was never fully sure when I was joking or not
@nickthewright I probably would have bought the pristine yet affordable El Camino I saw if I had any reason to believe I could put heavy stuff in the back without it hitting the ground
cthululemonMy ‘67 had a schrader valve in the back that you could use to perk up the rear suspension quite a bit. It helped but with a few trees in the back it would get pretty serious diaper butt.
Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)@nickthewright
This reminds me of "Ark II".
This reminds me of "Ark II".
Jeff Zugale - Z Factory@TerryHancock @nickthewright you are not alone in this, my first thought as well! 😊
King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi@nickthewright YO THAT FUCKS SO HARD I WANT ONE 🤩
Gik 
| 💙➡️🇺🇦@nickthewright ARK II vibes
Randy_underscore_S@gikiski @nickthewright One of them _was_ used in ark II, the silver one from: https://brubakerbox.weebly.com/history.html back when it was known as the "Brubaker Box"
I love it, whoever tries bringing it back needs to also make a matching small pickup reminiscent of the Deora. Get a whole ecosystem going.
nev@nickthewright congrats, this is a rare time i actually say out loud "what the fucking shit is that" and it's not about some weird bug
riese@nickthewright can I get this as an electric? I'd rethink my i-don't-need-a-car-where-i-live views. Coolest thing I've seen since the delorian
Eli the Bearded
inamruzui@nickthewright it would be fun to convert it to ev and to throw solar panels on it
sortius@nickthewright I don't drive, never have, but if I did, it'd be this
Dexter
StuartB
C.S.StrowbridgeI don't drive, but if I did, I would either want an ultra efficient car like an Aptera (if they ever get built) or something wild like this.
tekhedd@nickthewright want.
sorry, but there's no "want" button.
Ben Ramsey@nickthewright @blogdiva I went looking for this. Apparently, there were very few made, but it was part of an indie effort to construct an improved minibus-like vehicle that would fit on the VW Beetle chassis.
J. Brian Coyle@nickthewright
Wasn't there a Hot Wheels or Matchbox car of this?
Wasn't there a Hot Wheels or Matchbox car of this?
kwayk42@nickthewright you're telling me I could've been driving around in a tricked out shuttle pod from Star Trek TNG THIS WHOLE TIME?
@RickiTarr did you know about this?
Veirling | #MMIWG #LandBack@nickthewright We didn't ask for this, we don't need it, still rad AF.
JustMrLarz@nickthewright Considering you can buy new 3rd party pans and chassis to this day, making this wouldn’t be impossible if the current owner of the molds would find funding. With modern materials & engineering I bet the interior could be sci-fi amazing.
Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲@nickthewright @baralheia this car fucks
jramskov@nickthewright@tenforward. me The Li Mega looks a bit like that I think: https://youtu.be/RRuvZVLG2KQ?si=ClPV7j0TbBwL8F6U
This Sci-Fi Minivan Is The Cure To Boring SUVs!
Seiðr@nickthewright Yeah, but you need to be in the Thunderbolts besides a regular license to drive it.
🇵🇸 Álvaro González@nickthewright Interesting. It's like a Cybertruck, with storage.
Ms Ngo@nickthewright Looks cooler than the cyber thing.
@nickthewright Would be good for an A-Team / Mod Squad teamup series.
Deven Phillips@nickthewright
Can I get that as an EV?
Can I get that as an EV?
DrGecko@nickthewright The Spanish-speaking community in northern New Mexico and southern CO dates back to about 100 years before the Pilgrims. Spanish was the majority language in New Mexico until massive anglo in-migration in the 1960s. New Mexico has always been officially bilingual from statehood until the present.
Food is way better than TexMex, too.
Dashdrum@nickthewright Would Drive
🚲 murph@nickthewright Nice thing is, it won't have worse rearward visibility than modern vehicles.
KevinFlynn 
Miakoda 
Oh who's that guy on YouTube who reviews weird cars? Doug, I think?
He should. Also, I need to find him to resubscribe. I lost it somehow
DeterioratedStucco@nickthewright
Some of the Traveller guys on Facebook have been raving about this one. I like its look (which is a *really* rare thing for me to say about a car) but I gather the original design Had Issues.
Some of the Traveller guys on Facebook have been raving about this one. I like its look (which is a *really* rare thing for me to say about a car) but I gather the original design Had Issues.