Now this is something that has a certain decided appeal to me, as something of a cross between my xB and F100. There’s times I need one or the other for my chores, but with this I could (sort of) do it all with one vehicle.
Long bed, did you say?
Yes, long bed, as there was a factory short bed, the Toyota bB Open deck, sold only in Japan. But that bed is a wee bit short for much hauling.
This home-built version has a semi-reasonable sized bed. If it had a proper tailgate to extend it, it could be pretty useful.
Thanks to FWD, it’s a mighty deep bed, although a flat floor cover would be handy.
This one is a work in progress (hopefully), as are so many home-built undertakings of this kind. I actually ran into this car and its owner just a week earlier, but it was night and the pictures were unusable. He’s a major gen1 xB freak, and has had…over half a dozen, if I remember correctly.
He bought this one recently, so presumably it may get some further development, or not. He loves it, and it attracts attention, which is undoubtedly more important than its utility value.
I’ve had many a mind exercise about all sorts of xB permutations, as I’m a big fan, and I can envision alternate variations for different purposes. A pickup has been one of them, so it’s nice at least two of us were thinking along the same lines. Of course thinking and acting are two different things.
Just my first association
Neat “big rig”! My first association was this:
It’s not finished but the bars will be out soon, and the scion dropped . Couldn’t help but add this to your collection, Washington State
The xBute.
It could work Paul, if you get into building more tiny houses
I still have hope for the subcompact Ford pickup, apparently due in 2022. Some sources say it will be based on the forthcoming new Transit Connect, others say based on the new baby Bronco. Either way, it should be something close to this.
Well, hopefully a little longer in the bed like the RAM 700
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/international/south-of-the-curb-2020-ram-700-could-this-little-lamb-be-loved-up-here/
Ford and Volkswagen have joined forces to develop new, light commercial vehicles.
From what I’ve read, the next Transit Connect will be based on the recently inroduced new VW Caddy (riding on VW’s MQB platform now). The production of the Caddy will start later this year, in Poland. If the Transit Connect is merely a rebadge, it will look something like this:
I love how the power window switch panel is just hanging from the wire where the door panel used to be. The bedsides look higher than those of the Silverado next to it! Interesting job, someone had a decent set of tools and some ingenuity, that’s for sure.
Even with the short bed, one could haul quite a bit of lumber. As long as they were 8’ lengths, stacked on end. Most overpasses would have enough clearance.
Jeep scion, what will I think of next…. Let’s chop the Ford flex, it’s older brother
Nobody’s posted the iconic Suzuki Mighty Boy? 🙂
It’s been done, I remember a guy owned a blue one in Miami about 10 years ago.
This isn’t new,I was 1st one to make my dail 2005 XB into Ext cab Mini truck. I $sold it off about 4-5 years as seen in this pic below at about 90% done for only $2,500 at the time because I was trying to build something else. I hate when people act like they never seen a chop XB,that the easy part,but making it into a ext cabs take some time & my rear hatch window still open as seen in my Cardomain topic posted meany meany years ago. I was the 1st one to donk XB with 6″ on 5-lug wheels,Yes you name is from Hydraulics to slammed daily,I did it to my Scion XB 1st as daily as I do Not build “show cars” !! I sent this trend as there is Now a cult base off my work all over facebook as seen meany of my pics on Goolge, Thank you as I’m working on my other Scion now…..We’ll see what happens in time
Why are you so angry? The man who wrote this owns an XB and just happened to meet another man in HIS town in Oregon who has done this to his XB – this website only features pictures taken by the writer(s) and not stories of cars we saw on the internet. Also, did you not see that Toyota themselves made a *FACTORY* version in Japan from 2000-2001 – long before they started selling them in the United States? Or wait, I bet you saw it and stole the idea from them huh?
Looks like an Xb and a Baja had a tryst on Skinner Butte during quarantine…
not sure why people saying I’m hatting when I did more work to old daily like mold the fenders to truck my wheels under…..Here’s a few pics
This isn’t about rolling and tucking; you were quite clear in your first comment that you think the idea of a XB turned into a pickup was yours and seem upset that the author of this post (in your opinion) found a “copycat” and didn’t give you credit – he already says in the text that there are numerous others like this. You literally said “I hate when people act like they never seen a chop XB”
The Toyota BB Open Deck isn’t a show car either – it was available for purchase in Japan , as I said, in 2000-2001.
not sure why people saying I’m hatting when I did more work to old daily like mold the fenders to truck my wheels under,even to the front end,keeping it clean
here’s my old daily with molded the fenders flairs to truck my 13×7 Golds wheels under,this shit went hard on the streets. I don’t build “show cars” Thank you