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title: "Street Meat: Five Food Trucks We’d Love to See Happen"
description: "Turning beloved vehicles into beloved restaurants"
date: "2015-10-28"
modified: "2019-05-17"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/678/street-meat-five-food-trucks-wed-love-to-see-happen"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Street Meat: Five Food Trucks We’d Love to See Happen

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Call them the hipster nonsense. Call them the [new diners](<https://www.harvesttableculinary.com/our-promise/>). Call them an American fast food renaissance or a travesty, wheels and all. Your opinion matters not: Food trucks are around, and on average, pretty damn tasty. Back in college, Thursday through Monday nights, a grilled cheese truck sat two blocks from my freshman dorm, serving hot, carb-cosseted cheese to kids in various states of inebriation and undress. The punny name, [The Whey Station](<https://www.wheystation.com/>), always bothered me—whey is a byproduct of cheese, so the Whey Station to my knowledge never actually served any whey. But then, any linguistic quibbles melted like Munster as I wrangled a Monger—fives cheeses, plus prosciutto—into my mouth.

Those fond memories have me thinking: what otherwise civilian vehicles might make similarly pleasurable little food trucks?

**Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6X6**

![foodtrucks\_mercedesg63\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/foodtrucks_mercedesg63_art.jpg>)

As any small-business owner knows, visibility and location are necessary to drum up business. To state the nakedly obvious, the G63 is a six-wheeled, 536-horsepower, reconstituted Austrian military vehicle available in bright yellow. Any attention there is to have, is yours. Portal axles and off-road tires mean that when scouting locations, your limitations are only traffic laws. To whomever runs with this idea and opens the Bratwurst Benz: We would like our sausage comped.

**Range Rover SVAutobiography Long Wheelbase**

![foodtrucks\_rangeroverautobiography\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/foodtrucks_rangeroverautobiography_art.jpg>)

Sometimes, you find yourself in a manicured park, slightly tipsy on rosé, gazing at three wheels of brie, triple-cream. Mitsy brought a silver knife, Bitsy, some folded napkins, but damned if Donny didn’t forget the crackers. Picture this: Land Rover’s ultimate Rangie, motoring over the hill and into sight, packed to the aluminum gills with picnic supplies. Tiny spoons, fresh baguettes, a thimble of jam, a tin of fine sardines? The proprietor would have to charge mightily to recoup his £156,000 investment, but then again, drunk picnickers aren’t known to be frugal.

**Ford F-150 Raptor**

![foodtrucks\_fordraptor\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/foodtrucks_fordraptor_art.jpg>)

The mighty Raptor, returning this fall with a 450-horsepower EcoBoost six-cylinder, a 10-speed transmission and an even more butch body. Amid vitriolic politics, income inequality and trigger-happy citizens, sometimes it seems like the Raptor is the best thing America has going for it. We’d load up the bed with a couple grills and serve char-broiled burgers out the back. To do our part to stem inflation, the burgers would be $4; a chance to sit in the cab, only $2.

**Mazda CX-3**

![foodtrucks\_mazdacx3\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/foodtrucks_mazdacx3_art.jpg>)

The CX-3: a [little champion](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/149/mazda-cx-3-king-of-the-mini-utes>) in its odd segment. It’s handsome, tidy and fun to drive. Now that Volkswagen buses are [collector items](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/630/the-best-damn-wave-in-new-york-city>), we think the little Mazda hatch would make a righteous surf wagon. To play off that beachy vibe, why not fill the trunk with a slushy machine? You could go organic, court the vegans and spend days happily tooting around leaving a wake of smiles and blue teeth.

**GMC Sierra 4500HD**

![foodtrucks\_gmcsierradenali3500hd\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/foodtrucks_gmcsierradenali3500hd_art.jpg>)

With the diesel engine, GMC’s 4500HD can tow 23,200 lbs. Why not pull around your own goddamned diner? Watery coffee and eggs sunny-side up, all enhanced with diesel perfumery.

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

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[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/BnKshn>)