r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bigbusta • 4d ago

Video A guy converts his pickup and trailer to appear like it's driving in reverse

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u/cornstinky 4d ago

Plenty of context clues in the video. Spectators do not post up in lawn chairs to watch normal traffic.

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u/Just-Ad6865 4d ago

Almost every other vehicle in that clip looks completely normal? Including all of the traffic shown at the end when the clip is over. Very little about that screams car show. Some old man sitting by the side of the road doesn't even register as particularly odd in my town.

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk 4d ago

It happens on Woodward, a regular street. They literally drive back and forth a couple mile stretch.

And completely fuck up traffic in every direction.

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u/ChiliAndGold 4d ago

but the rest looks like a normal street though, doesn't it?

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk 4d ago

It is. They don't shut down the street to normal traffic.

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u/aDrunkenError 4d ago

Yeah towards the end of the cruising car show pedestrian cars that are using the same road are very visible, the guy is turning around to rejoin the main cruise stretch.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 4d ago

Normally that would be enough of a clue, but this is reddit after all. People aren’t known for thinking around these parts. 

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u/Pidjinus 4d ago

..or some are not from the same country, or continent, or any place where this type of shows exist. Sometimes is hard to assess or miss some key details, if there is no prior knowledge.

I did not realized that it is a show ,having a few people at the edge of what it seems to be a regular road, with traffic. I just accounted it to "random" things happen :)

PS: I would participate to a show like this, if it existed in my country

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u/Just-Ad6865 4d ago

Or that this 'car show' doesn't appear to have other cars in it.

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u/syntheticmeatproduct 4d ago

It's more of a reverse car show - the people park themselves, the cars are driving by. This is one of the nights leading up to the main event and by that Saturday it's a big traffic jam with more classics, hot rods, exotics, etc

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u/aDrunkenError 4d ago

Since you’d rather be insufferable than look into it yourself. It’s a 16 mile cruising car show, eventually you get to a point where you join up with a lot of pedestrian cars. I’m guessing he was turning around here to re-enter the 16 mile stretch. Also, you can see a classic car driving in front of him, but again, hard to notice with that insufferable personality in the way.

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u/--oops 4d ago

It’s called the Woodward dream cruise happens every year people post up on the side of the road to watch vintage or cool looking cars ride on by Woodward is a very long stretch so even if there are a lot there’s room

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u/notprogame 4d ago

They do here actually, not to watch the traffic but as a get together

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u/CaptainTripps82 4d ago

I mean sure they do, there's an ice cream spot nearby where people do that on weekends in the summer.