Jim M has sent this pic of an . unusual ... work truck. I'm just not sure what sort of work it is for...

I think that must be a SEMA enclosure.
Joe

"BEAM ME UP SCOTTIE!"

Luke I was thinking Enterprise also.

NASCAR pit crew?

I don't know, but I reckon it's some kind of Police speed trap vehicle.

Looks like a mobile elevated work platform with dual conduit carriers and a highway safety directional arrow.

Plenty of room for tools and the whole crew too.

Funny, it looks like it has about a dozen taillights, and they're all on the front.

SEMA enclosure!!!! That's a good one!

HEY where's the extension ladder?

Man that is hard to look at.... But it appears to have a Bain Marie on the font bumper for lunch?

Someone has wayyyy too much time and money for their own good!!!

This makes me think back to "Transformers" {More than meets the eye!)

It's big in Japan!

"Warp 6, Mr Sulu"

"You ain't gettin past warp .05 till dis here traffic lets up!"

I Think Reno has ShockMe's answer, it is a transformer for the electrician, it transforms into a bucket truck for light poles and hooking up services! it's the perfect work truck..

"Help me Mr. Electrician, my power's out!"
"don't worry ma'am I'll be there...now"
*woman sees work truck appear in a blur of light*

Arrgghh! Nooooo!! It's..deadly... brown... Bakelite! [swoon].

That thing awfully looks like it might have started it's life as an innocent Mazda E 2200 (fairly common work horse around here, available as a van with 9 seats, work van, pickup,...



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This is one of a series of Japanese trucks that were on display at some convention in Japan. I lost the link, but there are several photos circulating around the web of all kinds of bizarre mods they do to trucks over there. I'm glad I'm not a detailer in Japan.

Good one Alan! lol

I thought it was a mobile disco!

A hit at block parties, for sure.

When I was in Tokyo last year I saw several trucks like this, it’s the ultimate expression in a Rice Truck.

On second thought, the gleaming rear of the truck makes that rig look like a lunch truck (roach coach) gone horribly wrong.

Dont think it was a mazda, headlights are different, looks like it started off as a dual cab toyota dyna. We had them as work vehicles in the early nineties when i was an apprentice and they havent changed much. Ours wasnt as shiny as that one though!

With the front mirrors that look down thru the slots in the bumper, I'm guessing its some sort of railroad power or signalling work truck.

Larry C

*slap*
I kept thinking something was wrong with the Mazda assumption... and kept forgetting there was a second car with those weird side windows! You're probably right-on with the Dyna.

My guess:
An Isuzu set up as some bizarre form of tow truck or fire equipment



A stripped down model

That Isuzu is sweet looking If the thing in the first pic was the one in the last pic, then this country's body shops must be monitored more closely (possibly along with UN sanctions)

At least the beast in the first picture can't have been the exact same model as the Isuzu, the doors look too different.
As a matter of fact, the Toyota Dyna doesn't look right either... the bottom part of the doors is pretty distinctive. Weird.

Randy,
Yup, that'll teach'em

What the....?!