Strange/unique vehicles (not nec. ugly, though)

[BucknutBob]

Hey all you car/truck guys and gals, how about a gallery of the strangest, oddest, most unique vehicles you've seen, either in person or in an article or one-off photo...however you came across it. While there are tons of weird concept vehicles that have come and gone, try to keep it to genuinely operational vehicles (even if it's the only one). Now this is NOT one of those "ugly cars" threads (though ugly by design is definitely welcome!)--looking for uniqueness here. While home-builts are welcome, I find some of the truly bizarre ones are the factory-built brainstorms of dreamers who envision millions of their "babies" everywhere. Here are a few samples to start things off:

 

[downpour11]

:nicethread:

Everyone's seen it, but I gotta add the Marauder. Love this truck.

 

[blizz86]

:nicethread:

Everyone's seen it, but I gotta add the Marauder. Love this truck.

"there was a fight between the marauder and the earth, and the earth lost." LOL

 

[BucknutBob]

Here's an interesting one--looks like an ordinary sports car, maybe a Lotus from the size, right? Then you look at the back and see...propellers? Then he drives right into a lake, and instead of an amphicar that floats, he sinks right out of sight! It has scuba gear built in, and the whole thing is waterproofed--they just put on the regulators and masks, and drive with the fish! Those big nozzles below the mirrors are the thrusters that aim it up or down.

 

[4Running Daily]

If anyone has ever watched Monster Garage with Jesse James, they turned a school bus into boat.

 

[downpour11]

That is probably one of the coolest cars I've ever seen ^^^ I wonder if it can do barrel rolls underwater lol

 

[BucknutBob]

Some strange additions from the all-electric "green" crowd:

 

[downpour11]

Where's the :sogay: smilie when I need it lol

 

[T4R2014]

Isuzu Vehicross

Toyota Mega Cruiser

 

[RandyDaytona]

I'm always singing their praises, so I have to post my dream truck...a Pinzgauer 714:

 

[Buckles]

Mercedes Unimog. Wish I could afford one.

 

[KidVermicious]

The FocusRunner

 

[BucknutBob]

The FocusRunner

I love it when someone does a really clean, integrated conversion like this on a vehicle you wouldn't expect! There are certainly many examples of BAD conversions out there, but this looks good.

 

[BucknutBob]

That Focusrunner reminded me of a few rigs I've seen--these are production vehicles (on a small scale, no doubt) with similar intentions. My guess is they would cost a teeeeeny bit more than that Focusrunner!

The last two are for those leaning more toward the truck side. The first one is a Knight Conquest, a full production truck of some smaller company, and then a prototype of (gasp!) a modern Jeep pickup. Enjoy!

 

[JohnsD90]

Volvo C303, looks like a one piece Pinz.
Not generally as well known as Mogs and Pinz.
http://bringatrailer.com/2012/04/02/amazing-civilian-conversion-1975-volvo-c303/

 

[KidVermicious]

The SnowMotor

 

[BucknutBob]

That Snowmotor is one of the slickest vehicles I've ever seen! I wonder what the shortcomings are, why it never lasted--everything along those lines uses caterpillar/tank style treads nowadays. Great find!

 

[KidVermicious]

That Snowmotor is one of the slickest vehicles I've ever seen! I wonder what the shortcomings are, why it never lasted--everything along those lines uses caterpillar/tank style treads nowadays. Great find!

It's probably fairly inefficient - lots of shoving things to the side instead of behind, and lots of friction when it gets on a harder surface.

For the right terrain, though, it's awesome.

 

[downpour11]

 

[BucknutBob]

From the "Well, it IS unique" files (or some might say "What WERE they thinking?"):