I just saw an old Cadillac pickup made from the car....I wonder what the allroad will look like as a
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That's an old joke with a long backstory, and it really does refer to a uniframe vehicle we cut the top off. The joke was that after cutting the top off but before we welded a cage in (it was an already heavily modified vehicle, not the ideal platform but it wasn't a bad next step, as it were), there was this mandatory drive down the street it had to make.
I forget the reason for having to drive the thing, but we were joking that, without the roof, the vehicle would fold up like a Taco Bell chalupa. It didn't, but the nickname stuck, so I turned the plasma down to gouge and beveled the name into the rear bumper in big, block letters.
It was a fun buildup. I'm sure you'd find tons of pics if you google Chalupa. I pretty much only did some of the bends and strengthened the uniframe and suspension mounting points on one of the build days, so it's not like I had a huge piece or anything, but we did come up with the name that day.
Found a pic after my friend sold it to its present owner. It's von crazy.
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=278342&stc=1&d =1166673203
I forget the reason for having to drive the thing, but we were joking that, without the roof, the vehicle would fold up like a Taco Bell chalupa. It didn't, but the nickname stuck, so I turned the plasma down to gouge and beveled the name into the rear bumper in big, block letters.
It was a fun buildup. I'm sure you'd find tons of pics if you google Chalupa. I pretty much only did some of the bends and strengthened the uniframe and suspension mounting points on one of the build days, so it's not like I had a huge piece or anything, but we did come up with the name that day.
Found a pic after my friend sold it to its present owner. It's von crazy.
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=278342&stc=1&d =1166673203
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