Twenty-five years ago, Kris Marshall of Iowa draped a strand of Christmas lights across his pickup truck. Now, eight incarnations later, the Christmas Truck has 3,000 lights. Matt Hardigree writes for Jalopnik:
It's amazingly nontechnical, it's literally just lights taped to a truck. According to Marshall "It's not very scientific, it's a hideous site in the daylight, there's black tape and wires in the daytime." But at night it's amazing. Marshall has used eight trucks and added dozens of strand since, though it's always a 2WD Chevy/GMC with a regular cab and eight-foot truck bed "the way a truck ought to look."
By his own estimate there are 50-to-70 strings with a mixture of 50 and 100 lights each, making a conservative estimate of 3,000 lights. There are no LEDs, just the cheap $0.89 strings, though he'd like to add some to take pressure off the taxed generator
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Nifty, but in my state it'd be non-legal. Or, rather, to drive with said lights on would put one in danger of receiving tickets from law-enforcement officers. One could presumably drive around with the lights off, but what fun would that be?
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It's not sa hideous "site" in the daylight. A hideous site would be something a spammer like sexygirl2009 would recommend.
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Spam deleted BTW
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I may have to steal this for my blog! Very Festive!
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This is a truck from SD Ireland location in Burlington VT.
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We have a local guy who does his Blazer up every year; this year he is up to 6,344 lights! http://tinyurl.com/ybw8zzq.
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