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    Pickup truck wheelchair conversion - video

    Pickup truck wheelchair conversion. 1:54 video:



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    The client that I'm building the All Terrain Track Chair for has one of these conversions done on his lifted GMC 2500 truck. It's pretty sweet to see in action. I took some pics and video while we tested the track chair with him:

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    That's impressive Kent
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    There one problem with the door. What if someone parks to close like a lot of dumb ass drivers do !!then you can’t get in.

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    That's actually a very good point. Someone could even park at the proper distance away from you in a non-handicapped parking space that is adjacent to your handicapped parking space, and it would still be too difficult to open the door.

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    I use a wheelchair. And yes parking is an obscene issue.
    disabled folks are some of the worst parkers. As to the truck, I saw one. Asked the guy how it was. Not that old and he was having issues already, just to much involved. Also, most folks just can't afford something like that. I got my used van at a great price of 15,000 when most well used ones were going in the mid 20,000 . New, forget it. 75, 000 and up. This was in the early 2000s . So yea, things look great but the costs are out of reach for most.

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    Another approach:


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    A while back I saw a similar but quite a bit simpler retrieval arm mounted in the bed of a full sized crew cab pickup. the drivers seat rotated out and dropped down so the man could go from his chair to the seat but he hd hooked a cable to the chair before getting out of it. he pushed a couple of buttons his seat raised and swung in while the chair was hoisted and swung into the truck bed.
    I learned that he had been a CSM in the Army 30 years of service wiht only weeks until retirement when the vehicle he war riding it drove over an IED in Afghanistan paralyzing him from the waist down.
    The optimistic Sgt Major said one day he will walk again because after 10 years he could now wiggle 2 of his toes on 1 foot.
    You know what I believed him. He was a private in Germany just about the time I was leaving Germany I obviously never knew him but I knew the unit he was in back then. We talked quite a while and I learned that I might have seen him once when I went to Afghanistan on a road building project. that I made some pre-stressed concrete forms for .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    Another approach:

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    Jon,
    Can you link to the source of this video? I tried going to that website listed in the video, and searching, and nothing came up for me in Google.
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    Not sure of the source. I found it floating around social media and figured it was relevant here.

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