The off-road industry can be truly bizarre at times. A few beers with the buddies after you’re done installing your new coil springs and shocks from 4 Wheel Parts and the next thing you know, you’ve mounted a Jeep grill to your wall in place of your living room overhead light.
Sometimes, though, those post-build fantasies cross a line from bizarre to just plain ridiculous. Even less often, those ideas are made into awkward reality. Then, ever so rarely, other people spend money on your four-wheeled oddities. Take these, for instance...
Apparently inspired by the old “Happy Jack” Hummer commercial, the Dummer is described as an “Off-road vehicle.” While it is constructed around a ‘90s Chevy S10 chassis, the plywood body would beg to differ with that description.
Despite its glaring ridiculousness, someone purchased the Dummer on ebay for a reported $3,350 – otherwise known as: enough money to purchase a fully functioning used Jeep.
These six-door monstrosities are converted from your pickup for around $30,000 through a company called MEGA X 2. The practical purpose behind this is obvious: an eight-seater van with the badass feel of a pickup truck, allowing for everyone to car pool to the tailgate party.
The downsides are also obvious, like a fuel efficiency too low to think about and its inability to take a turn sharper than 20°. Nonetheless, there is enough demand for them to warrant a website devoted just to selling them – and they customize rock crawlers too!
Three independently beautiful concepts slammed together into one horrible, horrible idea. The FordVette Monster Truck sounds like it could be completely amazing, it even looks pretty badass, but the moment I picture it rolling into the dirt, a little part of me dies.
That gorgeous sports car would be destroyed if it ever did any off-roading, nonetheless monster trucking. Without that capability, it’s just a sad symbol of unrealized potential ... which someone spent something akin to $3,000 on.
