Sound crazy?
That’s the starting bid for Orlando Figueroa’s Chevy on the popular auction site. But judging by the reaction Figueroa’s truck gets on the street from others, he may reach his quarter million asking price.
That’s because Figueroa’s Chevy is no ordinary Chevy. In fact, it looks nothing like a pickup; it’s more akin to Optimus Prime. Or a space ship crossed with the Batmobile.
Figueora custom-built the monstrous truck using the frame of a 1981 Chevy pickup. Among its many striking features and amenities are hydraulic-controlled doors; front, rear, and side cameras; indoor televisions; an array of exterior light displays; a fully automated rear ramp; racing seats; motion sensors and a very loud truck horn.
“Actually, I wouldn’t call it a Transformer,” said Figueroa, a 51-year-old auto mechanic who runs a repair shop in Brooklyn called Figs Auto Repair. “I don’t want to copy from anybody. [I’m] like an artist. You throw paint and it splatters and it’s called art, and what I did is the same thing.”
Figueroa, who nicknamed his truck USA Leader 1, said he intended for the truck to resemble a creature of some sort but that it wound up looking like a Transformer upon its completion two years ago.
