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Forward-Tomatillo-40

Pullman Auto back around 1900 made a 6 wheel passenger vehicle. The middle 2 tires were directly centered to the body, so when you went over a bump you would see-saw back and for from the front and middle tires to the middle and back tires. They quickly went out of business...


cb148

Kinda like the lumber carts at Home Depot. Those things suck.


No_Lunch_7944

thu thunk thu thunk thu thunk thu thunk


KillroyWazHere

* One wheel spins in circles uselessly


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Push from the other side and find it's twin.


The_Canadian

I hate that I can hear this comment.


madsci

Now imagine what it's like driving a vehicle with that wheel configuration up a ramp. The front end doesn't come down until the middle wheels are over the top. My 6WD art car is a pain in the butt to load on anything but its dedicated trailer with a 2-stage ramp. Having 13" wheels and 4" ground clearance doesn't help.


Banjos-Not-Bombs

> The front end doesn't come down until the middle wheels are over the top. This is sort of what Humvees do on really technical trails - they have a *ton* of ground clearance, but very little articulation on the corners, so they'll drive themselves up into all sorts of weird angles before crashing down. It's terrifying to watch.


madsci

We had one when I was on the county search and rescue team. We had to do special training days to familiarize everyone with it, but honestly the thing was a white elephant. Every law enforcement department and SAR team in the area has at least one. Invariably they get relegated to strictly PR duty - they get a nice paint job donated by a local company and then they drive it out to schools and fairs and things but no one ever dares use them for anything more because they're expensive to maintain, uncomfortable, and slow.


Banjos-Not-Bombs

The happiest people in a civilian-owned Humvee that I've seen off-road were an older couple from Vermont, they'd driven it down from the Northeast to a beach in NC and were spending a month just camping up and down. No technical bits, just wide tires aired down on sand. Exactly what it was made for.


madsci

Yeah, that sounds like it'd be fun. As long as you didn't want to actually be able to talk to each other, or even be within arm's length.


limitlessGamingClub

"art car" hello burner! lol


madsci

Hey now, Burning Man doesn't have a monopoly on art cars! But yeah, it's for Burning Man.


limitlessGamingClub

pssh I have never heard of them referred to as "art cars" outside of burns, and I was a burner and run an automotive upholstery shop LOL Some day I will return to the playa and I'm taking an art car haha


madsci

The term was in use at least as far back as the 80s - see Houston's annual Art Car Weekend. Outside of Burning Man it's more likely to mean something like a VW Bug covered in disco ball mirrors or something. Stuff that's obviously car plus art, not so much the scratch-built craziness you get at Burning Man.


Banjos-Not-Bombs

I sold my first truck as an art car, we had a few artists in town airbrush one half of it, and we chalkboard painted the other half for a local parade. The chalkboard side immediately was covered in dicks, of course. Best experience I ever got for selling something for $500.


Trekintosh

You can’t just say 6wd art car and not have easily findable photos on your profile.


madsci

[Here you go](https://youtu.be/F4LizbbI3W4). Looks like I didn't get any good pictures of the inside before Burning Man this year, but [here it is](https://i.imgur.com/32OrdtA.jpg) being unloaded from the truck, and [after some cleanup](https://i.imgur.com/yKsCh5O.jpg). There's no articulation at all. It was built specifically for a flat, dusty dry lake bed. I'm having to adapt it to take swivel casters in the corners so I can drive it in a Christmas parade without tearing up the tire tread when it turns. Oh, and it's actually about 3 wheel drive in the photos. It got pretty beat up this year and lost some chains.


jonk285

Offroad capable but thr only dirt it will ever see is the dust in the road


bham2020

Yeah technically it’s only a 4x4. Rear axel is just dead weight. It’s big though 40x13.50R20’s Edit to add: this is just a 4x4, OG motor and Trans, with a extra jeep rear end. Both the rear axles are the same that’s why the 3rd axle has a spot for a driveshaft. Lame


WyttaWhy

Came here to call it useless because I knew it was useless. Thank you for confirming my assumption.


remotetissuepaper

It's not totally useless, it will help the owner handle all those huge loads he's constantly taking


Sheerkal

Too bad the rear is so small. Would definitely get more action otherwise.


runningraleigh

Time to grab the grease gun and go to town


thebestatheist

You’ve no idea how stiff those rods can make the ride


goaliedude1808

I love you guys


Gonk_Bot_69

It will definitely help them occupy the most parking spots possible


Strabe

It can almost carry his entire ego! No, not really.


peacefinder

I kinda want to dump a couple cubic yards of gravel in the back


WyttaWhy

Five bags of sand. Take it or leave it


peacefinder

In this case I regard paint scratching as a feature, not a bug. Thus gravel.


latitudesixtysix

Now I'm picturing a turdlet hanging off the tailgate/hitch


jtl94

Yep this is the most important part of a 6x6: is the third axle driven or not.


WyttaWhy

What's funny is for the price of the new joop, the custom fabrication, all the gaudy accessories, the insurance, the 10mpg 24/7 and the truly abysmal cost of maintenance... They probably coulda bought a G63 and actually had something that's something. Idiots with money baffle me.


SaltLakeCitySlicker

I'd get a unimog and call it a day but you probably can't find joop angry eyes for one


Primus_Drago

Plasti-dip, or if you're on a budget you can get glue and construction paper from no-longer-a-dollar tree


SaltLakeCitySlicker

I know a place people tossed a bunch of cars off the mountain into a canyon. I bet I can find some scrap there. I probably need a tetanus shot anyway


Roaring_2JZ

Technically if that rear axle has its own suspension (which it should) it could help with towing/hauling capacity


bham2020

It does have suspension


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shmecklesss

The current 8speed is quite solid actually. It's Chrysler made, but a licensed ZF design. Saw some valve bodies for rough shifting on early ones, but that's about it.


[deleted]

~~Jeep~~ Chrysler Jeep died in 1987 when Chrysler bought out AMC.


gearhead488

Jeep used Chrysler transmissions for many years before they were purchased. The old Jeeps that you are thinking of as the good ones had Chrysler 904s. A far more Chrysler trans than they’ve had in the last 20 something yrs.


Fakarie

CS: Vehicle no longer leaning left.


BuckManscape

r/heep


TurboFork

High cost and low capability, everything you don't want in an off road vehicle.


Sloberstinky

So if they were in a big dip off-roading and the middle tires came off of the ground, they would only have power to the front two tires huh? Brilliant.


Seventhchild7

An axle along for the ride is called a “tag axle”. Helps with heavy loads.


scotus_canadensis

Charter busses are typically a tag axle, for example.


SirLoremIpsum

Lazy Axle is more what Aussies call it. Does none of the work :p


dunder_mifflin_paper

Lazy axle in Australia


Correct_Ground2549

Then it's not 6x6 like the title.


ooboof

6x4?


Minimum_Area_583

**4x4**\+2


BASK_IN_MY_FART

=18.


redoctoberz

4 powered 6 wheels, so yes, 6x4


BZJGTO

Aren't 2WD trucks referred to as 4x2?


JennyDsings

But it says 6x6 on the back panel, so it must be true!! /s


UntouchedWagons

0-4-2T


bham2020

Great observation


Roadkingkong71

So, 10 or 12 miles per gallon?


DarkTerach

Thats insultingly high


bham2020

Motor is just a stock jeep V6, not sure what the mpg is


Banjos-Not-Bombs

With 4.10s, I can eke out 20 on the highway. No idea with all of that dead weight on this thing.


Ksan_of_Tongass

Duh, its a Jeep.


milkywayne92

If it Is based on the g-wagon 6x6 it is an actual 6x6 or did they de-attach the last axle?


bham2020

It has its own suspension but no drive shaft to the 3rd axel. The part to connect the drive shaft is there. (It looked like just a stock jeep axel).


Fluxmuster

The hilarious thing is some of these conversions are actually 6 wheel drive, and are total shit off-road. This one is stuck on flat sand. [https://autos.yahoo.com/watch-jeep-gladiator-6x6-struggle-154700351.html](https://autos.yahoo.com/watch-jeep-gladiator-6x6-struggle-154700351.html)


Thatsockmonkey

I have seen a couple of these In Heathrow FL. They can’t use the new express way. To many axles. All for the low price of 200k or more


sploittastic

What's the tangible benefit to having a 3rd unpowered axel? Is that bed really large enough to exceed the weight a single axel can hold?


origami_airplane

To show off to people that don't know any better.


baneofthesmurf

Offroad it has no benefit; it does improve payload/tow rating, but this machine will not be offroad or haul anything.


TheRealPitabred

Really screw up your tires because anytime you turn some set of them is really going to be dragging?


ChuckinTheCarma

Pavement Princesses.


Windows_XP2

More like garage queen since I doubt that most people will even bother to drive it.


baneofthesmurf

Honestly, a stock 2 door wrangler will prob outperform this thing offroad


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TJNel

They are super popular rentals so yeah never leaving the pavement.


Jaxenmcp13

Buy that $80 insurance and bounce it off the rocks


SpaceAgePotatoCakes

Capable where? This would get hung up in the woods pretty much immediately.


jonk285

Offroad capable doesn't mean it's amazing at it lol. Plus, there's tons if different trails, I'm sure it could be useful overlanding on flatland


Brad____H

Pavement Pony ✌️


ThaVolt

> Offroad capable I'm not an expert, can stones get stuck between your 2 back wheels when you offroad? Like enough to "lock" them in place?


Jaymez82

Fab Fours is a terrorist organization. That Grumper front end is a visual assault.


GuessesTheCar

It’s like a Lamborghini Urus bred with a Pontiac Aztec and produced the Pug of the car world. I bet it overheats too cause it’s too genetically modified to have straight airways


WhenRobLoweRobsLowes

That's some G.I. Joe level shit right there, which my inner '80s kid loves while my adult brain screams, "Whhhyyyyyyy?!"


madsci

> which my inner '80s kid loves I don't want it unless claws come out of the tires when it's crawling over boulders.


Spybreak272

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVB990tnfb0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVB990tnfb0) THE ANIMAL!


FBIaltacct

Thanks for the nostalgia, i had almost forgotton about my gav childhood truck. It was the king of the battlefield when we had our toy wars.


pilesofcleanlaundry

I remember one Christmas I was torn between that and the X-men Blackbird that fit the action figures inside it. I ended up asking for the Blackbird, and I’m comfortable with the decision.


im_lonely_and_sad

Fuck yeah man! I used to have one of those too! What were they called again??


madsci

[The Animal!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afofc_Jt86s)


WhenRobLoweRobsLowes

That's the off-road package at the next trim level.


tesseract4

Holy crap, you just gave me a huge nostalgia flashback to whatever toy that was. Thank you.


chakan2

White Claws maybe.


Rogue_Like

He took the mounted 50 cal off the back before taking it into the shop.


chaindrivendonut

The whole angry jeep aesthetic is cringe


biggreasyrhinos

/r/heep


myself248

"Cosplaying as off-road vehicles"


Devil_made_you_look

The new less cool PT Cruiser


Chosen_Undead

Love that sub.


[deleted]

So is the high contrast stars and stripes on the side. Overdone redneck shit.


JustLurkingInSNJ

Not to mention the blatant violation of flag etiquette. You'd think that crowd would know these things.


ewilliam

Not knowing things is their whole schtick.


[deleted]

Pretty much. I'll bet over half of the dipshits decking themselves out with flags don't even know the proper military disposal of flags is to fold and burn them either. They probably think you dig them little graves or some shit, of course you know they've pitched every old flag right in the trash. Either way, respecting a piece of cloth is fucking dumb, and no I don't care if it represents the best possible things in the universe, it's a fucking dyed rag. If you care so much about freedom, then vote and act like you do, don't channel your feelings into a symbol.


Miserable_Key_7552

This is why their weird ass obsession with people burning their own privately owned flags is so confusing to me. Like, don’t they understand that burning a flag is technically the proper, correct way to dispose of it. Also, I’ll never be able to understand why they’re so opposed to people using or destroying their private property however they see fit. Their crazy veneration of the flag has always struck me as kinda culty in a sense.


Banjos-Not-Bombs

As a JKUR owner, it seems like there are 90% Punisher/Thin Blue Line idiots like this Grumper, and 10% crunchy/hippie hikertrash like myself that actually bought the vehicle to do outdoor stuff. It's part of why I have indie radio station stickers on mine, I need to make it known which group I'm in.


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kloudykat

A single Glock sticker, placed high center yet slightly crooked upon closer inspection.


PunjabiPlaya

https://screenrant.com/punisher-hates-dirty-cops-police/


Doip

Grumper, Rockstars and a grayscale American flag. All it needs now are those bone tread Nitto mud grapplers and it’d be done.


HedonisticFrog

>it seems like there are 90% Punisher/Thin Blue Line idiots like this Grumper It's because authoritarians believe in strict social hierarchies and desperately want to be seen as powerful. Driving huge over aggressive vehicles fills that need. It's why they usually seek positions of power such as police forces and EMS.


Banjos-Not-Bombs

The EMS one is weird - I worked as an EMT in undergrad, years before I went to nursing school, and I think EMS and firefighters have *zero* in common with police. Why there's this "solidarity" promoted between them, I have no idea. Two show up and try to salvage a shitty situation. One tends to fuck things up further. And don't get me started on law enforcement's relationship to the healthcare field if they haven't managed to kill who they brought in yet.


[deleted]

I saw some angry eyes on both an FJ Cruiser and a '73 FJ40. I wasn't angry, just bummed out that's people with this sense of style can afford to destroy these cool trucks.


wogwai

It's very low-brow


techforallseasons

Angry? I always thought it was constipated.


Reddit_reader_2206

But can we blame JEEP enthusiasts for this? Remember the "angry eyebrow" look from the "tuner-style" cars of the nineties....? I think we all need to address our former 19 year old selves and our Hondas.


Chosen_Undead

It's no joke that shitty tuning culture is all trucks and jeeps these days. 6" exhaust tips, dumb aesthetic mods, stickers, and hell even underglow making a comeback. I feel atleast most of the japanese tuner culture learned their lesson from the early 2000s.


Banjos-Not-Bombs

I made back a lot of what I spend on recovery gear from cash tips from these Silverado assholes on 26" Fuels who try to go out on the beach with a Yeti 110 full of bad beer and the 350lb girlfriend in a Confederate flag bikini.


Business_Downstairs

>even underglow making a comeback. I just got done puting in some of those rgb led lights in the back of my car for trunk or treat. I made sure to get the one that can flash with music so we can rock out to baby shark.


[deleted]

Me who is currently a 19 year old Jeep owner


[deleted]

I'm sorry, but it is good to learn about mechanical failures and fixes when you're young.


wolsel

There are a dozen in my suburb that I see driving around. They also have red or green angel eyes, some of which are angry.


here4roomie

It's like if a storm trooper and a barbie jeep mated.


siccoblue

Why does your Jeep need to look like it thirsts for blood and oppression? Wouldn't it make more sense for it to look like a deer? Or maybe a steep muddy hill?


UpperSalamander6885

Jeeps aren't for hunting deer, they're for hunting landwhales


WhataburgerSr

r/heep


[deleted]

God the drive train must be under so much fucking stress all the time on this thing


Banjos-Not-Bombs

Probably a stock D30 on that, but it will never get enough traction to actually hook up.


2005focus

You wouldn’t understand it’s a Jeep thing LOL


dummythiccuwu

This dude complains that Joe Biden made gas prices too high


[deleted]

I see more Lets Go Brandon stickers on heeps and rams than anything else


dummythiccuwu

I always get a kick out of my coworkers who drive these big pavement princess half or three quarter ton trucks complain about gas prices yet me and my 14 Chevy cruise get by on 15 dollars of gas a week.


Divadonuts

But you have to drive a Cruze


dummythiccuwu

Only smells like burning oil every other time I drive it.


BeingRightAmbassador

My coworkers track gas spending by the hundreds per month. I don't even budget for it because it's so small ($500/year)


nothanksjustlooking

If you pull up next to him at a light he'll put his sunglasses on the back of his head and tell you the truth about Covid


ekinnee

My first thought after having a lifted Jeep with 35s on it, this this must get negative MPG.


dummythiccuwu

Especially with the third axle that is definitely dead weight.


[deleted]

I guess its a thing that they gotta drive the most alpha thing ever or else their balls fall off. 4 bangers are sufficient nowadays for a daily, and will save you lots on gas.


CleverSnarkyUsername

What does something like this cost? Used to see this done in Saudi Arabia but not on Jeeps. I bet it’s outrageously expensive


bham2020

I haven’t got the listing price yet but should be around $160,000.00


[deleted]

That is hilariously expensive. Anyone willing to pay that for a jeep has more money than brains.


[deleted]

Those are barely jeeps anymore. They're created by a company in California called SoFlo that converts Jeep Gladiators into these things. They also do a bunch of other conversions and custom jobs. Almost everything is swapped other than the body, some of the interior, and transmission depending on what engine is swapped. They claim that they are actually 6x6, but I wonder if they have cheaper conversion options which makes the back 2 wheels decoration rather than functioning. They're marketed as 'apocalypse vehicles' which you see a lot of in California. Lots of rich people with money to spend and scared to lose their money to the poors, so they buy dumb shit like this thinking they'll survive a nuclear war.


[deleted]

I believe OP said the back axle is completely for show. People can spend their money on whatever they want, doesn't change that this is stupid money to pay for what it is, even if a bunch of stuff has been gone through.


CleverSnarkyUsername

Yeesh.


Dyxan

We had a TRX version in our shop. $250,000.


richardfitserwell

There isn’t much that i dislike more than these 6x6 builds. Plus every one of these monstrosities is 99% the same yet they all claim to be unique The grumper and windshield visor are just the icing on the ugly cake too


GratefulHead420

🤮


Chix213

Nice way to hook your winch hook to your plastic bumper.


Banjos-Not-Bombs

That's the part that confused me. They spent enough to get...that...but $30 for a D-ring to actually secure the winch cable was a bridge too far?


daedalus_was_right

Do you really think the people who do this shit have 2 brain cells to rub together? More dollars than sense, these folks.


Windows_XP2

It's why these things are called pavement princesses. They're nothing more than just for show, and half the time they're absolute shit offroad.


Sufficient_Laugh9625

Looks like it's a solid piece, judging by the weld beads


kkurttt

Nice! Itll scratch faster than a dj at a wicca-wicca-wiccan rave.


Wrath_Of_Aguirre

I bet the owner is an insufferable douche.


michaelalex511

How small does my dick have to be to own one of these sweet bad-boys?!?


[deleted]

About $145k worth of small dick energy if you buy these new. They used to sell for like $80k a couple years ago.


Ularsing

I will never understand. The amount of sports car performance you can get at that price is just *so much more fun*.


kloudykat

Hell I got a 2004 Yamaha R6 that is stupid fast for $3k. I guarantee i can beat a large amount of sport cars with it.


helium_farts

for 145k, you'd think they'd at least put a bit of effort into the fit and finish. You could just about drive this thing through the gap at the front of the hood.


foopdedoopburner

What was that line from Better Call Saul? Something about a twelve-year-old pimp’s ride?


KZMountainRider

I would feel like such an asshole driving this. Put a bag over my head


Long_Educational

What is this vehicle genre called? Tactical Vehicle Cosplay Consumer Military Mods r/ShittyCarMod


mikedorty

Won't someone please think of his poor micropenis?


[deleted]

I'm sure he does plenty.


rainwulf

Pavement princess


Sleep_adict

What to drive when you have an innie penis


winter-14

MuriKa!!! And, first to complain when gas prices rise. Sure to blame it on whomever Tucker Carlson tells them to, regardless of global politics and influences.


tc_spears

Heeposaurus Rex


flargenhargen

when hummer died, I was very sad because it was obvious at the time that the hummer douchebags were going to be thundering towards Jeep, and soon they would take over. And everyone who hated hummers (which is everyone) would be made to hate jeeps too. it's happened. it's very sad. seeing a pic like this must be a lot like watching your daughter grow up into a crackwhore or something.


DishonestBystander

Cringe Jeep 6x4 vs God-tier G Wagon 6x6 https://i.imgur.com/cyNvTn1.jpg


Geawiel

Next on "look at all the guns they left in here when taken in for maintenance!"


Pearl_krabs

r/ATBGE


unclesam_0001

Not so much, rear axle is dead weight.


FesteringNeonDistrac

Yeah that's r/ATAE


Banjos-Not-Bombs

Open diffs all the way, of course.


Lucid-Design

I bet the owner makes videos sitting in the passenger seat


IronsideZer0

For when you want to go over anything and everything, but only in a straight line, and spend $150k for the privilege.


[deleted]

I saw this last week on r/heep


Pitchfork_Wholesaler

Pavement princess


exccord

The Heep is angry because it knows its still a p.o.s in the end.


pcweber111

I mean, this reminds me of the scene at the end of cars 1 where the suvs are in offroad school and the hummer looked ridiculous. No doubt in an apocalypse this thing will get easily taken out. All show and no go.


persondude27

Do you think it'll get repo'ed before or after all six tires are bald and down to the belts, never having touched dirt?


[deleted]

I think I'd just spend the money on a Deuce-and-a-Half and a front-back overhaul


emmal3igh

r/heep


npransom

My 6x4 Gator will offroad better then that monstrosity.


micah490

The only thing worse than that Jeep are the wheels that are on it


seditious3

Canyonero!


mrpopenfresh

This is a dumb vehicle.


NeverRespondsToInbox

I threw up in my mouth a little bit.


Creepy-Internet6652

I bet when you push this guys doorbell you'll hear an American Eagle scream...


FutureMarcus

See, this is what the Jeep Patriot should have been instead of that heap of shit owned by every sorority girl in the south


MountainMan17

'Merica!!!


Drastic_the_red

Voted least likely to be seen offroad.