Real Stealth Is Hiding Your Bed Under Pallets And Leaky Plastic: COTD

The stealth camper is a fascinating fork in custom RV culture where creative people try their hardest to make an RV that looks like anything but a place to sleep. Recently, I wrote about one of the most extreme versions of this, which was more or less a plywood box concealed under a stack of pallets.

Hindsight being perfect vision, perhaps the pallet camper had a huge flaw, aside from the terrible water leaks, anyway. Instead of getting attention from people who don’t like RVs, now you get attention from pallet thieves. Canopysaurus adds a hilarious comment:

So, the secret to making a stealth camper out of pallets is to make it look unpalatable.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology holds an incredible archive of Standard Reference Materials. Companies use SRMs, which includes standard diesel, peanut butter, and more, to calibrate their testing methods and equipment. That way, when you buy peanut butter, you can trust that the label with nutritional information is accurate. Today, Jason found a 1977 Volkswagen Beetle with only 130 miles. What do you do with a car like this? Jonathan Hendry has you covered:

You could also give them to NIST who could for example use the Bug as the Standard Reference 1977 Volkswagen Bug.

Today, David wrote about a Toyota Prius that’s wearing the flesh of a Jeep Wrangler. Why does this exist? Help me out here, Jesus Chrysler drives a Dodge:

What’s great is that this whole project basically cost Webb nothing but time.

So, it’s a cheap thing … and I wouldn’t understand?

Today, Lewin wrote about how a shop planted a BMW DCT into a Dodge Viper. Canopysaurus returns:

Paraphrasing here: there are old Vipers and there are bold Vipers, but there are no old, bold Vipers.

Finally, Jason wrote about a Cold Start about the Pontiac Acadian, which came with some very slight praise. Data:

This is too much driving excitement after a three-day weekend.

Have a great evening, everyone!

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