Rick Sullivan with his upside down truck in Clinton, Illinois. A man has built an incredible upside down truck that looks like a flipped-over vehicle. Rick Sullivan spent six months and $6,000 building the topsy-turvy truck from the parts of two separate vehicles.The road-legal car is created from a 1991 Ford Ranger pickup truck with a 1995 F-150 pickup truck body placed over the top - upside down.
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00:00010 00 No your screen hasn't been turned upside
00:18down, this bizarre truck is built to look like it's been flipped.
00:23011 00 Mechanic Rick Sullivan spent 6 months building
00:29the unusual vehicle in his breakdown garage in Clinton, Illinois.
00:34People are amazed.
00:35I mean, it's one of those things that when you first see it, it's hard to recognize what
00:40it is, but when you take the second look, then they pull me over and want to look at
00:44it closer.
00:45Rick, who runs the garage with his wife Kathy, got the design idea when he was called to
00:50rescue an overturned Ford Ranger.
00:53As we were approaching the scene, there was a pickup truck that was rolled over on its
00:58top in about 10 inches of snow, with all four wheels sticking up in the air.
01:02I said, hey, I'll bet you I can recreate that.
01:05Inspired by the concept, Rick set about putting his idea into reality.
01:10We collected parts from a Ford F-150, then on the drivetrain, it is a 91 Ford Ranger,
01:19and we tore the body off of it and transformed the F-150 upside down onto the 91 Ford Ranger.
01:29The truck cost me $6,000 to build, and it took me six months to complete.
01:34The truck is a big hit with Rick's nephews, who love being taken out in the attention-grabbing
01:38vehicle.
01:39Hi, Brody.
01:40Hi, Brock.
01:41You ready to go for a ride?
01:42Yeah.
01:43Want to go to Dairy Queen?
01:44Sure.
01:45Sure.
01:46All right.
01:47Why?
01:48Because it's upside down, probably.
01:49Yeah.
01:50And there's only one of it in the world.
01:53Our friends are very jealous that we get to ride in these cool cars.
01:58And the upside down creation turns heads in town.
02:00Yeah.
02:01I thought it was a car that had been tipped over.
02:03That's what it's supposed to represent, I think.
02:07What it looks like is somebody took the frame of a car and put it on there, but your first
02:12reaction is that something's wrong.
02:15I would like to have one myself, simply because of the uniqueness in it.
02:20The amount of pictures from cell phones, I would say, is somewhere around 1,000 pictures
02:25a day.
02:26Luckily for Rick, his wife supports his crazy building projects, even if he keeps her in
02:31the dark about what he's building.
02:34When I brought home the upside down truck, my wife had no idea.
02:37I was at work, and he called and said, you need to come outside.
02:42So I went outside.
02:44It was amazing, the reaction to it.
02:46And the people were stopping in the street, and it was a lot of fun.
02:52Yes, I would say Rick is car crazy, and his mind is always thinking about what the next
02:57project's going to be.
02:59The truck may have turned his world upside down, but Rick is already planning the next
03:03exciting build.
03:04I will keep the truck.
03:06I will never sell the truck.
03:08I do have a car building project for the future.
03:10Just keep watching the streets, because it's coming.