MegaRexx MegaRaptor: Pickup Colossus

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MegaRexx MegaRaptor: Pickup Colossus
Lifted diesel pickups, meet your new friend
The MegaRaptor, a mutant Ford Super Duty pickup from MegaRexx, is big. How big? It's so big, it disrupted international shipping for weeks after it got stuck in the Suez Canal. It's so big, there's snow on the roof that never melts. It needs rear-axle steering or a hinge in the middle. The turnkey base price is $135,000, and you'll also want to budget for one of those wide-load pilot vehicles to drive a quarter-mile ahead and verify clearance for upcoming overpasses. Lifted diesel trucks, meet your new friend
The MegaRaptor recipe calls for a Ford Super Duty diesel 4x4 (F-250, F-350, or F-450), a 4.0- or 4.5-inch suspension lift, bridge-girder-size MegaRexx radius arms, trophy-truck-style bodywork with a clamshell front end, military MRAP wheels, and 46-inch tires that weigh around 400 pounds per corner with their hub adapters. The final drive is regeared to a 4.88:1 ratio and the speedometer corrected. The resulting creation is surprisingly proportional. Like mountains and skyscrapers, the MegaRaptor requires some known frame of reference to visually communicate its enormity. Those flared fiberglass fenders add 16.0 inches of width. The floorboards are about three feet off the ground. Weight? It's flirting with 10,000 pounds. But that's okay because the tires are rated for 12,300 pounds. Each

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