So This Is How Rich People Go Hunting (Warning: Pic Heavy!)

TexasNativeDRJH

TexasNativeDRJH

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Must be nice...

This 1984 Bronco came in our shop for some minor carburetor work, and I couldn't help but admire the extensive amount of customization. The owner is a friend of my boss and is apparently very well off financially. He has about $50,000 invested in this thing:eek:

The top was removed, and the roof cut off along with the A and B pillars. The doors were scrapped also. Then everything inside and out was covered with a spray on bedliner. A custom deerstand was built in the back complete with suspension seats , the driver and passenger seats are suspension as well.


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There are also machetes on both front fenders that are molded into the bodywork to chop down small tree limbs as you drive.

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Gotta have a hatchet too, right? It's also covered in spray on bedliner.

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Even the wheels are coated, I bet they are a pain to have balanced.

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And as if that wasn't enough, there had to be a final touch....

Whats in here you ask?
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Booze of course!!!! After a long day of hunting you have to unwind somehow.

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That's really cool. Hey, you can't take it with you! I'll bet the shop who performed the conversion had free reign, and ran with it. I find it extremely well thought out.

Looks like the front hood is the only spot left for carrying any casualties...?

Thanks for the post! :thumbup:

Coop
 
SharpByCoop said:
That's really cool. Hey, you can't take it with you! I'll bet the shop who performed the conversion had free reign, and ran with it. I find it extremely well thought out.

Looks like the front hood is the only spot left for carrying any casualties...?

Thanks for the post! :thumbup:

Coop
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No problem, I wish you could have taken the pics instead.:D All I had was my cell phone camera.

The shop that did the work does more extreme conversions for the people that can actually afford it.

Look at some of the trucks on their website:eek: Some of them you can actually drive and steer from atop the deer stands- but not this one pictured. That would be ridiculously unsafe.

http://www.whitetailtrucks.com/


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Hehe-As they say, "the rich are not as you or I"....

Hopefully they don't use this thing on one of those hunting places where they truck the birds out to the field along with the hunters....Like Cheney uses.
 
Way out of my league, but I love it.
 
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The machete sheaths molded into the fenders blow me away.

I could do that -- with duct tape and spray paint. Tape the sheaths to the fenders and spray with Dupli-Color; it'll look like it came that way from the factory.
 
Thats a great truck . In fla same type of deal , the floor boards about 6ft tall . I'll see if I can scan a pic tonight . Going Hog Hunting in am .
 
niiiice.... i think it would be sweeter if there was nothing but booze in that truck. :)
 
Last time I saw something like that was about 15 years ago, it was a Suburban with a chopped top set up for hawking. It was being built for a Saudi prince.
 
50k? I don't think it will get driven very hard with no rollover protection for the driver, and no doors. Also, looking at the interior, I'd bet the electronics under the dash would be very susceptible to a light rain.

It came in for carb work? wonder why, maybe no AIRFLOW into the grill causing vapor lock? Anyone serious about an offroader would convert to a basic fuel injection setup. seriously, the guy might as well have welded some high chairs onto a convertible Caddy. At least the Caddy would ride nice.
 
you know, i don't know jack about cars, but this just seems too pretty to be a serious user
 
Its not a deer stand, its a Quail truck, as evidenced by the bob white Quail on the hand towels in the bar area.

I have hunted off its ancient predecessor made out of an old willys Jeep. The platforms in the front are for the dogs, and their handler, you hunt with pointers who will run ahead of the truck, and the dogs will run or sit depending on the area. if its not "birdy" and they get tired, they come sit, when one dog gets a hit, the vehicle stops and the dogs are let off and they scrurry around trying to find a hit, when they do, they point up and the hunters get down from the truck and go about flushing the covey. You have to sit up high a bit to see the dogs thru the tall grass. some of the 'ranches" that you hunt quail on can be 50 000 acres, and walking that much in 90 degree heat will kill you, you often find Airconditioned kennels on some of these to cool down one shift of dogs while the others are out hunting. Its not a luxury, when we were hunting the guide was pressing a bit and one of his dogs just up and passed out into convulsions from the heat, they want to hunt so bad they will run till they die. luckily we saw the dog go down and Ice applied to the inside leg veins and groin brought him around.
 
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