Homemade pickup truck

Like no other Chevy you've ever seen
London, ON
April 2020
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Serious question: What would be your ideal vehicle for surviving the apocalypse?

I'd like to think mine would be the pink wonderbike. But then I realize I'd need room for the fam, supplies, and enough peanut butter M&Ms to see us through to the other side.

So no velos. Think Tesla Cybertruck. Or Mercedes G-Wagen with tank tracks. Or that old Toyota Corolla with the mismatched bumper that got you through college, because everyone knows they'll last forever.

I saw this one from afar in the grocery store parking lot this week. At first glance, I thought it was a Chevrolet SSR, the low-volume, Corvette-powered pickup truck that answered a question no one ever asked. But as I got closer, it seemed, I don't know, a bit off.

Soon it became crystal clear: Someone decided to turn a Chevy HHR into a mini pickup.

Disclosure: I once owned a black HHR, and at no point during its time in our driveway did I ever imagine going to town on it with a sawzall and gobs of hand-applied bondo.

But I'm glad we live in a world where someone thought this should be a thing. We'll leave crash performance discussions for another time. But for now, we all need to have moments like this, when we can be stopped dead in our tracks by a rusty homemade frankenmobile with dangerously mismatched tires.

Anything, then, to distract us from the darkness that would otherwise envelop us. It took a weird-looking zombie apocalypse vehicle to remind me that light always prevails.

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