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2 unusual facts about pickup truck


Albert Wessels

Toyota South Africa can trace its roots back to 1961, when Wessels obtained a permit to import ten Toyopet Stout pickup trucks (popularly known as bakkies in South Africa) from Japan.

The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon

One day his curiosity leads him inside a butter churn that Jeff is about to return to a neighbor, and Jeff loads the churn onto his old truck and drives off with Nubbin still inside.


Arlington Assembly

The factory was the site of assembly for many large GM cars, including the 1980s Chevrolet Monte Carlo, 1994-96 Chevrolet Impala SS, and late-model Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks.

Bennie L. Woolley, Jr.

Trainer Chip Woolley loaded Mine That Bird into a horse trailer attached to 2008 Ford F-450 pickup truck, and drove 1,700 miles over 21 hours from New Mexico to get to the big race.

Chevrolet Chevette

The T-car was first launched in Brazil under the Chevette name in 1973, as a two-door sedan; the Brazilian Chevette line eventually included a four-door sedan, a two-door hatchback, and a two-door station wagon (named Marajó), as well as a pickup (named the Chevy 500), and was produced until 1994.

Chevrolet K5 Blazer

In Mexico, this model is called the Silverado (not to be confused with the Chevrolet Silverado full-size pickup truck).

Coupé

Sedans, pickup trucks and SUVs/station wagons have had fewer two-door models (especially ones with backseats) in recent years since the cost of four-door cars has gone down along with engineering to ease access to the back seat area.

Gregorio Ramirez Gonzalez

They also produced the well known Rural Ramirez, an SUV and Pickup truck based on a model by International, which is still collected by some people in Mexico.

Ken Case

Case pulled his Lexus sports utility vehicle out of Regency Place onto North Seventh Street and into the path of a northbound GMC pickup truck driven by 20-year-old Nicholas Ross.

Larry Northern

In August 2005 Northern was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after he drove his pickup truck through the Arlington West display of memorial crosses (each bearing the name of an American soldier killed in Iraq) that had been set up at Camp Casey, the protest site organized by peace activist Cindy Sheehan near the ranch of President George W. Bush near Crawford, Texas.

Prince Miler

The Prince Miler is a medium sized pickup truck built by the Prince Motor Company.


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2010 Thai military crackdown

Phongchalit and a Pilot Officer Aphichat Songyong (เรืออากาศตรีอภิชาติ ซ้งย้ง), aged 26, were wearing plainclothes and driving an unmarked Vigo pickup truck to the Saladaeng Intersection checkpoint at high speed.

Amarok

Volkswagen Amarok, a pickup truck made by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

Donald Kaul

In a January 2, 2013 Des Moines Register satirical essay posted shortly after the Newtown massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, Kaul called for the NRA to be declared a terrorist organization, for Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and John Boehner to be dragged behind a Chevy pickup truck until they saw "the light" about gun control, and for anyone who would not give up their firearms to be killed.

Fred Quilt inquiry

On November 28, 1971, the RCMP received a call about a pickup truck blocking Highway 20 around Alexis Creek near Williams Lake.

Goitre

In the final scene of the movie Easy Rider, the redneck in the pickup truck who shoots Wyatt and Billy has a large goitre on the right side of his neck.

Helmholtz resonance

Intake systems described as 'Helmholtz Systems' have been used in the Chrysler V10 engine built for both the Dodge Viper and the Ram pickup truck, and several of the Buell tube-frame series of motorcycles.

HPI Savage

A mechanically identical (save for springs) variation of the Savage 25 replaces that model's Lexan pickup truck body with that of a Kawasaki KFX700 all-terrain vehicle (ATV) with articulated rider figure designed to move with the model's steering motions.

Meyers Manx

Drawing on his experience in sailboat construction, Meyers personally modeled and built his first dune buggy, "Old Red", a shortened VW Beetle with a monocoque, fiberglass shell and Chevrolet pickup truck suspension, in late 1963 to May 1964 in his garage in Newport Beach, California.

Pontiac Assembly Center

Pontiac Assembly Center, also known as Pontiac East Assembly, was a GMC and Chevrolet (pickup) truck production plant operated by General Motors.

Pop the Trunk

His stepfather is fixing an old Chevrolet pickup truck, and eventually gets a Mossberg pump shotgun to shoot a burglar that has been tresspassing on his property, thus 'popping the trunk'.

Rock crawling

Vehicles commonly used include Jeep (the Chrysler and the Mitsubishi Varieties), Lada Niva, Nissan Patrol, Toyota pickup truck, Land Rover, Ford Bronco, Suzuki Samurai, International Harvester Scout and especially the Mercedes Unimog due to its portal axles and greatly increased ground clearance.

Scrum

Autozam Scrum, a microvan and pickup truck sold in Japan by Mazda

Stan Case

A pickup truck crossed into oncoming traffic at the intersection with Pratt Highway at about 3:05 p.m. and struck the Nissan Altima that Case was driving.

Tom Petway

Petway donated more than $300,000 to Republican causes for the 2000 election and was a lunch guest at President George Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he was given the traditional "pickup truck tour".

Tough as a Pickup Truck

"Tough as a Pickup Truck" is a song recorded by Canadian country music artist Jim Witter.

Vanity plate

An example is Buck in the action/thriller film Kill Bill Volume 1, whose Pussy Wagon pickup truck has a "PSY WGN" plate.