Thanks Everyone ! :) There are some great pics and now I know what to google for.

Er, whats the naughty word on the truck? :eek:

I noticed that at once, and thought 'idiot, he's got his typeface flipped,' and then realized it's meant to be like that so you can read it with a rear-view mirror as well. Oh Japan.

Imagine being chased by that all night down a highway though. 8/ dekotora's gonna get you, hurr hurr~

I wonder if something like this will be legal in north america.. forget about doing it to a truck.. just do it to a car.. it will be like a glowing thing running along the highway

You do get the odd weird car running around. I used to frequently see one in the shape of a floppy eared dog in Oxford, and there was a cadbury's creme egg car too that someone had built. Nothing like the trucks though.

The dekotora kind of remind me of massivly vamped up dune-buggies.

As far as I understand, for the most part it is not legal in Japan.

Oh, that i didn't know, i thought its legal... glad to know that..

What about the modifications with the Bosozuku bike?:



This one is actually more modest than some of the ones I've seen, some of them the headlight are like 6ft tall, are those legal???

Have you noticed the Dekotora in the background of the newest batch of Honda Civic ads? Maybe they will be more prominent in the next ones.

I think my roommate thought I was cussing the other night when I pointed at the TV and shouted "dekotora", since he doesn't know a word of Japanese and knows I'm not fond of Honda.

Here's some links I found a few years back when I was hunting for them

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Others I've had are no more