Silver crew-cab pickup towing a watercraft

A silver crew-cab pickup with the watercraft trailer close behind it, seen from behind. Two marks are pressed into the tailgate and nothing else on that panel takes the light.

A silver pickup from directly behind on the highway, with a watercraft trailer close behind it in the same lane; the coupling is hidden under the jet ski. The cab is a crew cab: the rear window is full width and there is a cabin visible behind it, with people in the back seats.

Above the rear window sits a single lamp housing, a red stop lamp in the middle with a clear lamp at each side, and a small fin antenna stands on the roof behind it. The tailgate is flat and carries two pressed marks in its middle half, and only those two: a ring with a smaller mark at its centre, and to its right a second mark that sits under this site’s letter floor. Between them and to either side the panel is flat, and the relief of the whole gate shows nothing else. Whether the two belong to a longer word that the flat light does not reach is not something this frame answers. Read again on the master on 18 September and on 22 September; both times the same two.

The tail light in view, at the right-hand corner, is a vertical cluster banded three ways: red across the top, a pale clear panel in the middle, red across the bottom. The other corner is behind the watercraft. An exhaust finisher sits under the bumper just right of centre, darker than the paint and not the chrome this page once called it. The bed sides are squared off with a straight top rail.

How to recognise it

• Crew cab: full-width rear window with a rear seat row behind it
• A lamp housing over the rear window: a red stop lamp between two clear lamps
• Two pressed marks in the middle of the tailgate, a ring and a second mark under the letter floor, and a flat panel either side
• A vertical tail light at the right-hand corner, red across the top and the bottom with a clear panel between
• A dark exhaust finisher under the bumper, just right of centre
• Squared-off bed sides with a straight top rail

The frame it comes from

The frame is Trailer 2 at 0:34.60. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 314 by 367 of it. Also in it: the green highway signs to Vice City, a red and white pickup, a white highway maintenance truck, and a personal watercraft on a road trailer.

How this was measured

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What we still do not know

• What the two pressed marks belong to. A ring with a smaller mark at its centre and a second mark sit a short way apart in the middle of the gate, and the rest of the panel carries no relief at all. A brighter angle on the same truck would settle whether there is a word there.
• The whole front of the truck, which is pointed away from the camera.
• Everything measured: top speed, handling, where it spawns