<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Jalopnik at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/Shopper-Chopper">http://tinyurl.com/Shopper-Chopper</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><h1 style="margin: 3px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; clear: left; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This 9-Foot-Tall V8-Powered Shopping Cart Is Pointlessly Awesome</span></font></h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Have you ever wished your shopping cart had a huge engine powering the wheels as you schlepped groceries down the dairy aisle? There would be no point to it, of course, but it would be cool.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That's exactly how the Shopper Chopper came into being. A custom-built giant shopping cart, it was originally created to represent Musser's Market in a Quarryville, Pa. parade. Then the builders got carried away and kept adding stuff until they had a legitimate hot rod shopping cart two years later.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But you won't be able to use this one at the neighborhood Stop-and-Shop. It's 9-feet-tall, 12-feet-long, weighs nearly 3,000 pounds, and has a 290 hp Chevrolet 350 turning drag slicks through a GM TH350 transmission and a Dodge 12-bolt rear axle.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Over 500 LEDs light the thing up like a Christmas tree at night, and it even seats six people.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">As cool as it is (c'mon, there's nothing radder than</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> throwing a small block Chevy motor into something that doesn't need it), </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">we can't imagine what you'd do with a giant hot rod shopping cart. Fortunately, the guys who put the Shopper Chopper together figured they could rent it out for parades and events, if for no other reason than to up any organization's WTF factor by at least 10. Because let's be honest, nothing screams WTF like a gas guzzling, brobdingnagian shopping cart.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then again, it could just be a really well thought out metaphor for America's over-the-top consumerism. Costco shopping carts are already almost this big. But we'll let you be the judge of that.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---------------</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Shopper Chopper</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="cid:4643D80E-FA78-4781-8049-B022CE72D9C6" alt="original.jpg" id="4643D80E-FA78-4781-8049-B022CE72D9C6" width="640" height="360"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="cid:E4C6B88C-55A8-4459-AB89-20AB09F44353" alt="image.jpeg" id="E4C6B88C-55A8-4459-AB89-20AB09F44353" width="640" height="360"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>