Pickle Car! I really really wanted a pickle car when I was little.

Can be both actually. Jerry-rigged comes from WW1 or WW2 (can't remember which) when the Allies would come across some German equipment that had been damaged and hastily-repaired. The Allies referred to the Germans as Jerry. Thus the fixed equipment was said to be Jerry-rigged.

My $0.02:

Most of my childhood dreams live in this seat.

Near where I live there is a house that backs onto an alley. There is no fence across the  back of the lot. Once a week I drive down the alley, stop, and stare longingly at the two E-types and the XJS, that are just sitting there... rotting. Nothing positive has happened to these cars in years.

I agree. I can't see through it or something. I drove a bimmer with a HUD and same as you, I ended up turning it off. It was super distracting. I found that I was always either looking at it, or having it pop into and out of focus. I know it's just my eyes because I can't sit in the end of the hockey arena behind the…

This occurred to me last night:

If that's the case, it's just stupid design. 

I live in Central Alberta now, but I grew up in Victoria and Vancouver. 

No, it really isn't. This truck appears to be a Renault Premium 420, 6x2. Here's an image of an undamaged one. There is no tow hook coming through the grill. What they did is attached the hook from the cable through that grill opening and around the supporting steel underneath. 

oooh sublimation.

Nope. My mistake. I meant Troop Carrier. Got the awesome 4x4s mixed up.

Cocaine mirror, cutting blade, and rolled up c-note.

True.

In Canada we only have to wait 15 years. Awesome. My town is crawling with JDM Nissan GTRs, Last gen RX-7s, RHD 300z Twin Turbos, an African RHD LandCruiser Patrol... 

We did that one last year.

The frame didn't give way. The mounting brackets that hold the cab to the frame broke because the idiots doing the job didn't attach the cable to the frame.

They didn't use tow hooks. Freeze the video at 1:12. The hook is permanently attached to the cable. These idiots just hooked the cable to an opening in the grill.

That's not frame. That's support bracket for mounting the cab to the frame. There's no way they'd be able to tear the frame apart. The cable would fail first, if they were truly on the frame.

I think the problem is that they weren't using tow hooks at all. They just looped the cable through an open spot in the grill/bumper/whatever. If they'd crawled under the truck and attached the cable to the frame, they would have merely sheered the cable with this idiocy.