Perhaps the strangest-looking truck ever built has popped up for sale on Los Angeles Craigslist, listed simply as a "1982 Peterbilt Rare truck."
Where did such an intensely weird old truck come from? Hollywood, where else. The truck appeared in the "The Highwayman" TV show, which aired briefly between 1987 and 1988 and centered around crime-fighting road warriors in the style of "Mad Max" or "Knight Rider."
According to the listing, the truck "cost $500K to build in 1982" and still has its original pink slip. While the truck impresses with its unique body style, it's still hard to spot half a mill's worth of work on it. For reference, $500,000 in 1982 would be more than $1.5 million in 2022 dollars, adjusted for inflation.
The seller doesn't seem too worried about recouping those 1982 dollars and has listed it for just $65,000, a steal of a deal on a truck they claim "can make over $100K" a year on "production/movie rentals."
We've seen trailers in worse shape!Photo from Craigslist
"Roadworthy and registered," the seller advertises, with a "steel clean body" that they admit "needs paint." Perhaps most amazingly, they list a "700-hp new Detroit diesel engine with only 5,000 miles." If anything, the years have only made the post-apocalyptic look of the rig more authentic.
"Starts and drives great, automatic," the listing says.
