Modifying pickup trucks may seem a silly idea. After all, pickups are to be made to be strong and tough to handle the elements. But some owners can't help putting in modifications from paint/wrap jobs to a few additions to make it stand out. Sure, a few can be quirky but still work out and let the owner put their own stamp of identity on a truck.

Unfortunately, too many owners take liberties with their car that are insane. It's not just adding a few minor touches, they completely transform the car in ways that aren't just stupid but downright dangerous for a vehicle. These are modifications dumb for any vehicle but on a pickup, they're worse. These trucks should not be subjected to such alterations, but they happen. These ten pickups stand out from the pack for modifications that boggle the mind and astounding they were ever imagined, let alone put on the road.

10 Flip It

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Yes, this is street legal. Whether it should be is another question. Rick Sullivan spent $6000 mixing a 1991 Ford Ranger with a 1995 F-150 for this bizarre "flipped truck."

To say it looks ridiculous is an understatement as who wants to have four tires surrounding them in the open air? The mirrors being on the underbody is moronic, and the blue hood covering is out of place. Sure, it's a funny sight, but it's also hazardous aside from being moronic.

9 Hot Rod

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Trying to turn a pickup truck into a hot rod is perfectly good in theory. Sadly, it falls apart here in practice. First, this 1935 Ford looks far too beat up and rusty to work right as a "rat rod." There's also too much exposure for the engine itself, which can ruin its performance.

The wheels also aren't right for either a pickup or a racing car and the grille at the front looks out of place. One can see what the owner was going for, but he couldn't quite get there.

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8 Old Fashioned Nightmare

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Where to start with this? First, someone takes a classic 1940s GM truck and tries to make it look like some fancy vehicle with a chrome front. The massive fin on the roof obscured the driver's vision and so made it much harder to handle on the road.

Then there's the ludicrous slamming with the covers over the wheels. Finally, the weird plastic partition on the rear serves no purpose. It ruins a beautiful classic truck in every way possible.

7 Red Alert

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It takes a unique combination of guts and stupidity to drive this on the open road. "Stanced" trucks are one thing, but adding two more wheels under the impression it makes the car work better is dumber.

The wheels don't match, the spoiler is ugly, the exhaust pipes are coming from the cab's rear, and the license plate is crooked to boot. The red color is the topper to how awful this is.

6 Low Rider

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"Slamming" is one of the worst modifications possible. Putting a car so close to the road the undercarriage it scraping the pavement is not a smart move. Doing it for a pickup, a vehicle automatically weighed down, is dumber.

But someone decided a 2005 Chevy Silverado would be better off slammed lower than a Camaro. Hopefully, they have the money needed for the inevitable repair work for this mess.

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5 Trank Treader

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Leave it to the Diesel Brothers to cook up this monstrosity. Maybe, just maybe, there's the nugget of a good idea in putting snow treads on a Dodge Ram 2500. But unless one is exploring Antarctica, there's no reason to put on those monstrous tank treads that chew up a road and slow the truck down.

Even Utah (the Brothers' home) doesn't get enough snow to justify this and looks ugly to boot.

4 Looney Tune

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On the one hand, you can almost admire the craft and dedication that went into doing this. The major question of why offsets that. Note the image on this 1988 Chevy of the Tasmanian Devil which fits as this is straight out of a Looney Tunes cartoon.

Having the hood folding forward with the number is wild enough without the trunk able to rise ten feet in the air. Even Bugs Bunny would avoid a ride in this cartoonish mess.

3 Spoiled Sport

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Spoilers on a pickup just look wrong. Doing it for a truck as terrific as a Chevrolet Silverado is worse. It doesn't help that it also has a chrome layover that the owner no doubt thought lived up to the "Silver" part but instead looks horrible.

The spoiler isn't just ugly, it also hurts the storage capacity and performance on the road and the chrome weighs it down. Then there's how the front end looks like a zipper going down it to make this one tacky creation.

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2 Jacked Up

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The entire "jack up a pickup" trend makes no sense. Why would one want to elevate it so high when it's meant to be lower to the ground for storage? Not to mention how it risks upending the truck due to weight.

This Ford is a truly horrible example, exposing the engine and chassis to the open air far too much. It also weakens the effect of those huge tires to make it worse. Jacking up a pickup is a bad mod in the first place but doing this high is just stupid.

1 Tacky Tacoma

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You can almost understand the concept of Toyota Motor Sales USA doing a "gamer" version of a pickup. But this is just ludicrous. There's a big-screen high-def TV ready for gaming with special chairs because, of course, folks go into the wilderness to play video games. There are bikes on the roof in case the gamer wants to go for a ride in between rounds.

Oh, and the massive swinging doors open for some more fun. It's far too much, and a clash of styles as video game buffs aren't known for outdoor activities so wasting this Tacoma on this is nuts.

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