YouTuber transforms her Model 3 into the 'world's first' Tesla pickup truck

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YouTuber and robotics enthusiast Simone Giertz has managed to beat billionaire mogul Elon Musk to the punch in releasing Tesla's first pickup truck.

However, unlike Tesla's yet-to-be-released pickup truck, Giertz made hers by transforming a Model 3 sedan.  

Designing and planning the car took more than a year before Giertz and a team of mechanics and modifiers took on the task of building the 'Truckla' - a term she coined by merging the words Tesla and truck.  

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Working alongside Giertz on the project were YouTubers Richard Benoit and Laura Kampf, as well as mechanic Marcos Ramirez. 

In a 31-minute video, Giertz documented the entire process, from buying the brand new $35,000 Model 3, to carving out the backseat and the trunk and installing the truck bed. 

'It's definitely the biggest project we've ever taken on,' Giertz explained in the video.

Giertz showed the painstaking process of sawing off half of the Model 3's roof, body panels and trunk. 

At one point, the team had to add reinforcement to the beams at the top of the truck, to prevent it from buckling in on itself. 

Other than that, however, the process went relatively smoothly.  

Many pointed out that the finished product greatly resembles retro styles like the Chevy El Camino or Ford Ranchero, since it blends the look of a sedan and a pickup truck. 

According to Musk, Tesla's upcoming pickup truck is rumored to feature a 'cyberpunk' design that takes after sci-fi films.

Musk expects to release the

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