What the truck?

This thing would make a bitchen RV. I would easily trade my Eagle for an RV converted Gooneybird.

That is freaking awesome. I would have converted it to a trailer of some kind (for simplicity).

This one also gets the Rainman seal of approval.

That is ridiculously cool.

Speaking of perversion, that thing's got a rear entrance.

You know, Qantas Airlines likes to brag that they've never had a crash in their company's history.

Let's hoon this thing and ruin their record!

Oh
My
God.

That thing is awesome. I want one.

That is nuclear-grade rad.

OK, so who's gonna do the burnouts and who's gonna drop a deuce out the back?

The Crass & The Spurious: Incontinental Drift

The Truck that the C-47 is on is from the Mid 50's or early 60's. The Spoke and rim set up seems to date the truck in that time period. I was trying to get a closeup of the actual hub cap (sometimes they had a raised imprint), but couldn't decipher it. The caps are similar to the ones that Mack used during that time period, or it could have been Diamond-T, or International or REO Speedwagen.

If only Boyd Coddington would have loved old phones, too...

He should have named it Clarence, because it hasn't got its wings.

A converted school bus will never look the same!

If it is powered by an inline 8 (or inline 6 with a blower), I nominate it for JFG.

Line it with shag carpet, add a few strobes and shazam! Join the Mile High Club.

@smalleyxb122: Should be a problem with all the telephones around..

Unrelated quote from the greatest film ever:
"Y-y-you-you're crazy, an' you're makin me crazy too!"

@slantsick: "Shouldn't"

Dammit.

"If it is powered by an inline 8 (or inline 6 with a blower), I nominate it for JFG."

+1. Although I'd definitely want a Vector W8 based F111 to go with it.

@smalleyxb122: Well done. [golf clap]

To capture the true uniquness of being airplane-based, it needs a rear mounted radial engine.

Now that is absolutely brilliant. Looks great.

Damn...I'd never considered airplane parts for swappage.

An aluminum fuselage would make a sweet trailer or RV. Maybe make a land-speed racer out of a small corporate jet.

(off to check airplane surplus websites)

@smalleyxb122: You get extra points for the most obscure movie reference.

FLY ME to the MOON. Space cowboy get it

(Damn, the Google/Jalopnik combo is a bit scary. This post is already indexed!)
@UDMan:
I googled "DC3 truck", and after the Jalopnik link, found the scoop...
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Apparently this 1944 Douglas C47 rolled out onto the road on a International truck chassis, in Australia, way back in 1950.

Considering the frequency of delays and flight cancellations these days, it would probbably be faster just to drive to your destination in one of these.

@DoctorNine: Extra points for the movie reference, indeed- but, "obscure"?

If every single Jalop the world over doesn't watch It's a Wonderful Life at least once every December, then I must simply despair for the complete decline of civilization...

That DC-3 is awesome,but a RHD Hawk?Never new new Studebakers made it to the land of OZ...I want one...

aerodynamic.

Wow.

Just Wow!

If only I were a home owner, I would sell it and live in this thing. This has so much awesome I'm surprised it didn't fry my computer with a bitchin' cool overload.

This thing lives not far from me.

@tad49: Cor, Ozzie!

Magnificent madness. Given the chance, I would live in this beast.
Dakotas are iconic. Not much fun to actually fly in though. Interesting experience when you have a blowout on landing, and the plane fishtails down the runway. Only in Africa.
But, think of the possibilities of using aircraft as a basis for weirdass cars. Huey helicopter gunship body sat on a rod chassis anyone? The mind boggles.

Definitely a better idea than the other way around:

@slantsick:
Eek! Is that an aircraft sexually molesting a Pinto? Or something? Not that good at identifying small American cars.

They need to use this for "Joe Dirt 2: More Dirt"

@X-Zambian: Yup, that's an AVE Mizar, the unholy union of a Cessna (I think) and a '73 Pinto. During a testflight, one of the 3 prototypes "fell apart" in mid-air, and the pilot and AVE's chief engineer were killed in a "fiery crash"- who'd a thunk?

@kfdave:

Oh yeah, Studebakers used to be quite popular here. They even had a factory assembling them in Australia for a time.

@X-Zambian: I flew on a few in Honduras. That was when I learned that a DC-3 apparently has a horn. The pilot honked at another DC3 when he felt it was taking too long in taxiing. I also got the experience of the pilot marching through the plane, looking out the window, then shouting "I'm never flying with this airline again!" (In Spanish, of course.) But really, it's like being in a '62 Chevy Impala in the air. Rough, slow, wallowy, but it'll get you there.

I saw this thing on the highway once when I was a kid. There's also a truck made out of a boat.