What to use the CT Frunk for…?

wtibbit · Nov 24, 2023

Variable556 said:
That might end up being a workable option.

I’m just salty over losing the sail pillars because they were ideally located in my opinion. Step out, grab carbine from light cover (vehicle body and/or door). Whereas frunk makes you go around to the nose of the vehicle.

Where were you in the 1950s and 1960s? Every pickup I saw back then, including those in the school parking lot, had a gun rack behind the seat, mounted in front of the rear window. Every rack held a rifle or shotgun or both. No one got the vapors, except for tin cans, rabbits and the occasional deer.

Since the Cybertruck has no midgate to interfere with, and the little back window can't open and is hard to see out of, especially if the vault is shut, that space in front of the window is only useful for for storing something long and thin.

If the folding back seat doesn't rest against the back wall you may be able to rack weapons there from floor to roof, or just keep a couple out of sight behind the seat back. Just step out from the wheel, leave the front door open, pop open the rear door, fold the seat down and, Bob's-your-uncle, you're behind two layers of tommy gun proof cover and ready for action.

If you're not a gun-totin' pickup person, you might need a rack for something else you can't be without. Being an inanimate object that rack don't care what it holds....

Tesla Cybertruck What to use the CT Frunk for…? Screenshot 2023-11-24 at 7.49.44 AM

Variable556 · Nov 24, 2023

wtibbit said:
Where were you in the 1950s and 1960s? Every pickup I saw back then, including those in the school parking lot, had a gun rack behind the seat, mounted in front of the rear window. Every rack held a rifle or shotgun or both. No one got the vapors, except for tin cans, rabbits and the occasional deer.

Since the Cybertruck has no midgate to interfere with, and the little back window can't open and is hard to see out of, especially if the vault is shut, that space in front of the window is only useful for for storing something long and thin.

If the folding back seat doesn't rest against the back wall you may be able to rack weapons there from floor to roof, or just keep a couple out of sight behind the seat back. Just step out from the wheel, leave the front door open, pop open the rear door, fold the seat down and, Bob's-your-uncle, you're behind two layers of tommy gun proof cover and ready for action.

If you're not a gun-totin' pickup person, you might need a rack for something else you can't be without. Being an inanimate object that rack don't care what it holds....

Sadly I missed that period. By the time I had a Chevelle in High School in the 80’s, one of the teachers told me I had to wrap a coat around my rifle when it was laying in the back seat during deer season. Apparently another teacher saw it and was “concerned”.lol

By the time I could afford a real truck, it was no longer safe to mount a long gun in the window. Too tempting a target in some areas. I’ve looked at various trays and racks for vehicles over the years, but usually just punted and kept a soft case in the toolbox, under the back seat, or in the rear cargo area depending on what vehicle.

I’ll figure something out when/if I ever get the CT. Who knows, I might be retired by then and just wedge a personal SBR between the seat and console.lol