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This would be a cool mod for everyone to do to their truck.  

 

I was on my way to work and I pull up behind an mid to lower 80's chevy truck.  Cool right, well wait before you say that.  Well I look down at his rear axle (no rear bumper) and (by the way the truck is dark blue) it is green.  No I did not spell it wrong.  He sprayed his rear end light green.  He even painted his shocks.  I pulled beside him and the ends of his axles were green to.  I have no idea what this guy was thinking.  

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There is an old Scout running around here that is painted in black and white Zebra stripes and his pumpkin cover is painted bright yellow with a smilie face on it.  I love it.

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There's a guy around here with a early 90's ford ranger and the truck is nicely lowered *which isnt the problem* He had the ugliest wire wheels and the paint scheme had 3 different colours... Bright Green, White and Yellow It looks like he did his own paint job and the everything from the winsheild was green the cab was white and the box was yellow.. Its looks like the ugliest piece of **** that i have ever seen :) 

Or there was a later 90's green blazer LT that lives about 20 min from my old place and he had yellow taillight covers, yellow rear window deflector, yellow decals everywhere, yellow vinyl strip over the front window, yellow grille inserts, and a jap scrap exhaust..  Just a little bit of more tastless garbage.. I know these are peoples vehicles and all, but if you want to make it eye appealing at least make it something that wont make someone throw up everytime they look at it...

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