# Half-track Pick-up Trucks

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 8, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527 "2006-02-08T12:27:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527/1 "2006-02-08T12:27:40Z")

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We were bored today. The subject of dune bashing in SUVs came up. Someone claimed that kits were available to convert a standard American full-sized, corn-fed pickup into a half-track for various commercial uses.

True?

A quick google confused by a large number false leads and bright shiny objects.

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527/2 "2006-02-08T13:52:17Z")

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They are available for pickup trucks as well as farm tractors. I’ve seen ads for them appear on a compact tractor site I’m a member of. IIRC, some of the photos showed the units on all four wheels.

I’ll look around and see if I can find any photos.

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527/3 "2006-02-08T13:54:08Z")

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Here’s a website: [http://www.mattracks.com/](http://www.mattracks.com/) Show them on pickups etc.

And here’s one for ATVs: [http://www.litefootatv.com/](http://www.litefootatv.com/)

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**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527/4 "2006-02-08T14:05:03Z")

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Yeah. I’ve seen em. I think the brand name was Traxx.  
Five whole minutes of Googling turned up:  
[http://www.mattracks.com/](http://www.mattracks.com/)

Hard to google 'em up, I’ll grant you. Lots of “pick-up” sites out there.

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527/5 "2006-02-08T14:26:19Z")

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I saw them demonstrated on some mud-ridin’ show. They seemed to do pretty well. The driver couldn’t really get them stuck. They have a fairly low speed limit (it was something like 40 mph) but it isn’t supposed to be very hard to convert them back and forth.

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527/6 "2006-02-08T14:28:42Z")

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I googled “track conversion” and they popped up in the first two or three returns.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527/7 "2006-02-08T14:38:10Z")

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Thank you all. Obviously my Google-fu is weak this weekend.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-track-pick-up-trucks/343527/8 "2006-02-08T14:40:25Z")

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Thank you all. Obviously my Google-fu is weak this weekend.

(Did I double-post this? If so, please accept my double thanks.)