This one’s gonna drown. I call it the Submariner.

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    Snorkels do more for getting the intake above dust and dirty air than improving fording depth. The low hanging electronics in the engine are the biggest concern. I can put a snorkel on my truck, the fording depth does not change.

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      Good God In Heaven!
      Now this is the sort of thinking I really like to see on the internet.
      Let’s continue to explore ideas. I hope none of those ideas include stealing my lugnuts. Let’s keep it reasonable folks.

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    I’ve been thinking of printing out labels that say ‘plastic masculinity facade’ for these cars (they’re everywhere in NZ)

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      Do they have snorkles? Because I think that’s a REALLY questionable feature on a pickup truck.

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          I am an ignorant NW American. We have our hicks and our dicks. Those are my friends. Snorkleboy is one of them.

          I drive an overly large (fuckcars would hate it), older plain white pickup with black trim. It’s a mobile home, hauls kayaks, cowboy limo, and gets me places. Plus, it gets stuck on the beach.

          Most of us don’t have snorkles.

          (EDIT … Um, I realized that my white pickup is in the background of the pic. It ain’t special.
          At least I didn’t post the other pic with the distorted reflection of me that looked evil and odd. Hell, I manged to keep my license plate out of it. Good enough.)

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            a mobile home, hauls kayaks,

            at least it’s not a pavement princess. guy down the block has to literally grab a step stool to help his wife into his. It’s never been off asphalt. he drives it to his tech job 35 miles away.

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              Smoochiepie goes everywhere. Real fast. Pretty comfy too. Til the road stops. Then we setup camp or drop the boats right there.
              She’s a bit heavy to drag out of ditches and such. We like to avoid that.

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            Thing is, if it’s older, it probably doesn’t have obnoxious flared wheel arches and whatnot like this 4 wheeled collection of fragile masculinity.

            If it’s a mobile home and hauls stuff, that’s completely granted (although the snorkel in most cases is almost certainly ridiculous performative bullshit), yours sounds like it has a purpose ‘beyond ego boundaries’