If you need a job done, why would you ever pay somebody else to do it when you have the tools and the skills yourself? That's what the blue-collar engineers in this gallery did, and they did a dang good job of it. Or at least as good a job as they needed to. 

No blue-collar dude loves anything more than his truck, but unfortunately not everybody's four wheels are blessed with a flatbed. But that didn't stop multiple people in this gallery from turning their rides into makeshift pickup trucks either by addition, or subtraction. Who knew a classic Ford van was the next best thing to an F-150? A dude with a dream, that's who.