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Originally Posted by HO455

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.

Is that practice still common? The reason I ask is due to my impression that the shooters in the back of the truck look “modern” (like within the last 10 years at max) both in how they’re dressed and the firearms they’re using….