So, mom sent me pictures of my dad and my brother-in-law's latest project, and it seemed cool enough to share with y'all, so I am.

Enter the Truggy. Take one part rolled Ranger that's been written off an insurance company and sold as scrap, one part swamp buggy (the utility type, not the racing kind. If you don't know the difference, it's not terribly important. Ever since TNN stopped being The Nashville Network I don't even know if swamp buggy races get tv time anymore), and one part electrician/welding torch, and you get this:

The chassis, front fenders and hood, and engine is all stock. The dash looks like it's what was there when they got it, but my brother-in-law (the electrician) apparently worked a minor miracle with the rats nest that used to be inside it. The bed, all the decking, the buckboard seat (as my mother calls it) and the deck/sunshade above the driver/passenger seats are all original. The railing around everything up top is a stock pipe rack that my father sells at the store (he just happened to have one extra that fit a Ranger. Yaright.) The seats are from the full on swamp buggy they have at the moment, which got brand new seats in the process. It's done for the most part, but they'll probably spend another year tinkering with it and adding bells and whistles in their spare time. I might have to look into getting it an ahugha horn for Christmas. :)

It doesn't have a name yet--Truggy seems to be more of a classification than a name (You got your truck in my buggy!), but from what I understand it might end up being in part of the full name. I don't know if they've named the buggy yet either, but the one my father built when I was growing up (which was much, much larger than what they have now--the current one is based off a Jeep chassis I think, the older one was something like an old Suburban or Blazer chassis) was named 'Claim Jumper', which I have always loved, and will be the name of a ship or something when I ever get around to writing something. :)

And the creature in the last pic is Lucy the Beagle, Priestess of the Impossible Tongue.

Anyway, I thought some of the gearheads here might appreciate something this off-center. :) I could try to get and post more pics of the buggy and Claim Jumper if there's interest.

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Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company