Japanese Illuminated Trucks

[ps99]

Thanks Everyone ! There are some great pics and now I know what to google for.

Er, whats the naughty word on the truck?

[Columbine]

Originally Posted by JohnBraden

LoL! Didn't mean it that way, but I see what you mean! Would it matter much if I said "it's a mirror-image (backwards) as well"? LOL again!

I noticed that at once, and thought 'idiot, he's got his typeface flipped,' and then realized it's meant to be like that so you can read it with a rear-view mirror as well. Oh Japan.

Imagine being chased by that all night down a highway though. 8/ dekotora's gonna get you, hurr hurr~

[godwine]

Originally Posted by Columbine

I noticed that at once, and thought 'idiot, he's got his typeface flipped,' and then realized it's meant to be like that so you can read it with a rear-view mirror as well. Oh Japan.

Imagine being chased by that all night down a highway though. 8/ dekotora's gonna get you, hurr hurr~

I wonder if something like this will be legal in north america.. forget about doing it to a truck.. just do it to a car.. it will be like a glowing thing running along the highway

[Columbine]

Originally Posted by godwine

I wonder if something like this will be legal in north america.. forget about doing it to a truck.. just do it to a car.. it will be like a glowing thing running along the highway

You do get the odd weird car running around. I used to frequently see one in the shape of a floppy eared dog in Oxford, and there was a cadbury's creme egg car too that someone had built. Nothing like the trucks though.

The dekotora kind of remind me of massivly vamped up dune-buggies.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by godwine

I wonder if something like this will be legal in north america.. forget about doing it to a truck.. just do it to a car.. it will be like a glowing thing running along the highway

As far as I understand, for the most part it is not legal in Japan.

[godwine]

Originally Posted by MMM

As far as I understand, for the most part it is not legal in Japan.

Oh, that i didn't know, i thought its legal... glad to know that..

[godwine]

What about the modifications with the Bosozuku bike?:



This one is actually more modest than some of the ones I've seen, some of them the headlight are like 6ft tall, are those legal???

[TalnSG]

Have you noticed the Dekotora in the background of the newest batch of Honda Civic ads? Maybe they will be more prominent in the next ones.

I think my roommate thought I was cussing the other night when I pointed at the TV and shouted "dekotora", since he doesn't know a word of Japanese and knows I'm not fond of Honda.

[Polar]

Here's some links I found a few years back when I was hunting for them

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Others I've had are no more