Pimp My Truck - the ideas keep coming
Having had a very successful meeting with Keltruck we've decided that our pimped truck needs to look like nothing else on the road. There are already thousands of very nice Scanias out there with fancy paintwork, lots of lights, alloy wheels and impressive exhaust stacks. What we need is something that's going to turn heads.
Here's a couple of ideas that came up in the boardroom.
Idea 1 - Longline

But with only two ever sold in the UK, second hand Longline cabs are slightly rarer than rocking horse manure! Then again, what about getting hold of a secondhand crewcab from a damaged fire engine? Would that look any good? We could kit it out like a truck limo inside?
Idea 2 - Cabriolet
![Leyland.tif012[1].jpg](http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/truck-and-van-blog/Leyland.tif012%5B1%5D.jpg)
What about cutting the badly dented roof off and turning it into a cabriolet? That seemed like a great idea to begin with, until Keltruck MD Andrew Jamieson pointed out that it would need a lot of strengthening to be safe. This would make it expensive. I know for a fact that a hell of a lot of hours were spent on the legendary Leyland Roadtrain cabriolet (above).
Besides, this wouldn't be the first time that someone had cut the roof off a Scania, and there's no way we would be able to compete with the legend that is Svempa.
Idea 3 - Pickup truck
We also discussed turning it into a huge 1950s stepside-style American pickup truck - which was an idea I first discussed Tyretracks boss (and vehicle fanatic) Chris Hopton. But again, this one was ruled out on cost and practicality.
Idea 4 - Push-me pull-me
![push_me_pull_you[1].jpg](http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/truck-and-van-blog/push_me_pull_you%5B1%5D.jpg)
Now how's this for an original idea? I try to persuade Keltruck to donate another Topline cab, and we mount it behind the first one - just facing the opposite way. I certainly noticed that they had a lot of spare cabs sitting around at West Brom.
Now don't laugh, but here's the diagram that one of the people in the meeting scribbled on their notepad (nobody is going to admit to it though). In case you were wondering that's a sun umbrella and deckchairs on the roof of the second cab (sort of a viewing area for attending sports events), and that's a BBQ between the cabs. The question is, what could we use the second cab for? Suggestions please?








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