The Perfect Truck Is A Widebody V8-powered Volkswagen Rabbit

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So you want a pickup truck, but each nan modern half-tons are conscionable excessively big. Even nan small ones, nan Rangers and Colorados and Tacomas, are truthful gangly and squared-off and fierce — it's each excessively much. No, if you're successful nan marketplace for a compact and applicable stuff-hauler, past you request this: A 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit pickup pinch a Ford V8, a rollcage, and a substance cell. There is nary much applicable conveyance than this. 

This Rabbit was really once featured connected Speedhunters, backmost successful nan halcyon days of 2014. Back past it had a handmade widebody kit and achromatic Ford Racing Cobra R wheels, but nan car arsenic it sits connected Facebook Marketplace coming has changed. Now it wears unpainted Berg Cup wide fenders and bottlecap-style wheels, but nan bosom of nan Rabbit is still nan same: A stripped-out and custom-caged ammunition pinch a 5.4-liter Triton V8 up beforehand that sends powerfulness to a welded diff retired back. 

The Rabbit connected Marketplace is, without question, successful rougher style than erstwhile it was built 11 years ago. It's dusty, it's missing headlights, nan assemblage kit seems unmounted — it's nary longer nan regular driver it was backmost successful 2014. But you could reconstruct it to that erstwhile glory, put nan plexiglass windows backmost into their doorway slots and freshen up nan almost surely out-of-date Takata harnesses. You could bring this V8 drift Rabbit backmost to nan streets. 

If you request a mini pickup, this is it. Never mind that nan furniture is afloat of suspension components, rollcage bars, and a substance compartment — and that it lacks specified modern motortruck furniture amenities arsenic "a floor." Just deliberation astir nan sound this motor makes, nan measurement it'll propulsion your caput against nan headrests of those Bride seats, and each nan bully times you'll person successful a properly-sized pickup. Who says that getting a compact motortruck intends you person to sacrifice displacement?