WTF Friday: Ronin

A few months (or maybe a year ago) GrinderTV posted a shot of a very interesting, very low, Suzuki Samurai.

After sharing the photo on the Stance Is Everything Facebook page I regretfully completely forgot about the truck (automotive ADD strikes again).

However about a week or so ago Jason Langley, aka Jason Bacon, aka Bacon media, shared a link to a feature on that very same Samurai.

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At first glance things like the Cummins 4bt motor swap (the second Cummins motor to appear in a WTF Friday post this month),  the body drop and vette wheels, immediately draw your attention but something I managed to completely miss the first time I saw the truck was that it has grown in size.

It’s now 5″ longer and a whopping 17″ wider than it left the factory.

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Inside the dash is curiously made up of 1″ Cedar planks and what look to be home renovation surplus materials.

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The truck is bagged, obviously, but it uses a (40-cubic-foot) reserve nitrogen tank that feeds a converted fire extinguisher tank. The system is entirely manual so it can be operated without the truck running.

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Oh and just because he was familiar with right hand drive from his previous Skyline experience the builder converted the truck to RHD.

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A full feature on this truck can be found here on trucktrend.com.

2 COMMENTS

  1. this is the friggin tits, is it bad that i actually think its kindof gnarly. has a modern rat feel mixed with a bit of mini trucking mixed with a little vw corvette wheel love 4bt oh jesus hahaha. this should be a wtf i actually like that friday hahahaha

  2. Thanks for the love on my samurai. I put a lot hard work and time in to it to make it something different.

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