If they want to get a showy vehicle that actually functions, they could get an electric Hummer or, for half the price and about the same amount of vehicle (in total or just comparing the beds), a regular F150.
A week ago I saw a nice rack on a CyberTruck.
➜ CyberRack? At a house with 3 Teslas, Burlingame CA. - Album on Imgur 
As much as I dislike the Cybertruck, that rack makes the shape of the thing at least slightly less ludicrous.
Agreed.
I disagree. I’ve seen lots of pickups with caps on them to turn them into pseudo-SUVs; at least you can store stuff in the bed & have it out of the elements. Unless this guy is the dogcatcher or moving livestock it doesn’t even serve that purpose. Sure, I can’t steal whatever he may put in the bed but then whatever is in there isn’t staying dry in the rain. It just reminds me of the locked up stuff in certain retail stores.
Oh, I am not saying that it’s a smartly-designed, functionally-useful rack. I’m just saying that it makes the contour line on the Cybertruck less ridiculous, IMO.
I think it’s intended to be more the equivalent of a truck rack, not a truck cap.
I still think it’s horrible and ugly, but the rack does seem to serve its actual purpose.
What I think of as a truck rack is something that allows you to carry ladders flat across the roof & bed of the pickup. They are typically two squared-off lower case letter n (for lack of a better description) where you can still access the bed of the truck below the ladders; the cage on the CT pictured makes even that impossible. Of course the high sloping sides makes that tough to do already; it was a stupid design in the Chevy Avalanche & no less stupid in the CT. It may score some points in aerodynamics & ‘fuel’ efficiency but that is more than offset by lack of access to the sides of the bed.
That rack is adding warts to a pig!
On Saturday morning in the northern suburbs of Chicago (around Skokie and Glenview) I saw a black limousine, which is rare enough nowadays. But even rarer it had:
*tail-fins, and was in apparent mint condition despite the age implied by tail-fins.
*a spotlight on each side, as if it was police surplus, and
*Illinois firefighter memorial specialty plates CFD 5
A Ferrari Dino 246 GT Berlinetta, this morning in downtown Saratoga CA.
A Berlinetta is a coupé, a hard top car, whereas a Spider is an open air car, with a targa top.
The Dino 246 looks very close to the Dino 206. Here, this fuel cap (green oval) is covered — this is the Dino 246. If the fuel cap is open then it’s the Dino 206. A very minor external difference, but one of the easiest ways to tell the difference between the 206 and the 246.
The ‘Magnum PI car’ driven by TV’s Thomas Magnum is the car that succeeded this one. That was the 1981 Ferrari 308 GTSi spider (or spyder; targa top, open air car). That was in seasons 2-6; a 1979 308 GTS was for season 1; and seasons 7-8 had a 1984 308 GTSi quattrovalvole, or 4 valve engine. All of Magnum’s original series Ferraris were spiders.
Some Tom Selleck trivia — to accommodate his 6’4" height, Ferrari removed padding from the seats and bolted them further back to provide the necessary legroom. His is one of the most recognizable cars in television history, with used models often selling at a premium due to their TV provenance.
Back to the Dino 246 GT: it was produced from 1967 to 1974. It was the first automobile manufactured by Ferrari in high numbers. The name Dino honors Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari’s late son, Alfredo “Dino” Ferrari. Tragically he was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and he died in 1956 at the very young age of 24.
Nice Spring day & I was along the river; lotsa stuff to see. There was a group Vettes, & one of Can Am Spyders, including one with racing stripes…on a motorcycle with training wheels. ::snicker::
* When they came out they had ads with a guy wearing leathers leaning into the turn, like it was some type of hot racing bike. I’ve never been able to look at one seriously since those ads.
Though far & away the be Willy’s Jeep with the windshield folded down. Rarely see one of those on a non-parade holiday.
Perhaps you already knew this and Willy’s is an autocorrect, but the correct spelling is Willys, no apostrophe. It’s not a possessive (of Willy), it’s an alternate spelling of Willis, and is pronounced that way. The company, Willys-Overland Motors, was founded by John North Willys.
Lamborghini Aventador.
I’ve mentioned before that I enjoy spotting cars that were just ordinary cars back in the day, but have mostly disappeared from the roads. And in that vein, last Thursday I saw an early 1980s Mercury Grand Marquis in what appeared to be like-new condition.
And today I spotted this ~30-35 year old Oldsmobile Ninety Eight. I’ve seen this car driving around my neighborhood several times before, but I finally caught it parked and got a photo of it today.
And it’s a little interesting that both cars I mentioned in this post are from dead brands.
I enjoy that too. For example the original VW Beetles come to mind. They used to be everywhere, but now they’re mostly gone and when I see one it’s somewhat of an odd sensation. Odd, and enjoyable.
Even the recreations are becoming less common to see every day than when/shortly after they stopped being in production. She’s a lot less black-&-blue when we’re in the car together these days. 
The thing I’ve noticed about Beetles is the type of person who drives them has changed. Even though I was born a few years after they stopped being sold in the US, in the 1980s and into the 1990s it was still common to see Beetles on the road just serving as cheap transportation for their owners. Today when you see one it’s inevitably a nice restored and often customized example in the hands of a collector and probably VW enthusiast.
Case in point, until recently I would often see an old Beetle parked on the street that had been “slammed” and “stanced”. Now I’ve started seeing a Golf parked in the same area that looks like it was imported from Europe based on the Euro style license plates it wears – it has a CA plate that was literally mounted over the European plate. Presumably it’s a European spec Golf that was imported under the 25 year rule. Come to think of it that probably qualifies as the most interesting car I saw some days (but not today since I didn’t see it today).
I saw a beautiful red convertible bug, probably 1970s.
Also a 1991-96 Buick Roadmaster (the Whale) with fake wood panels being worked on at the side of the road. I’d forgotten just how ugly those were.
Oh, my mom had a Chrysler Town and Country with the fake wood panels. i.e. - A cleverly disguised log.
They just never took it out of the box it came in when it was new.