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Originally Posted by special-K
That yellow truck. Are those exhaust stacks out of the hood? If not, then what could they be? I looked before but didn't realize those are in front of the cab. I guess it could be pipes up from the front bumper for something
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It's likely they are the exhaust pipes. It used to be quite common in the rural Washington Idaho and Oregon arid farm and ranch country to remove the exhaust manifolds and reinstall them upside-down and have pipes going straight up through the hood. The local county mounties would allow them on the county highways but usually frowned on them in town especially if they were straight pipes without mufflers.
The idea being that when driving on unpaved roads or through fields there would be no hot exhaust under the truck to catch dry grass on fire.
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