Sci-tech:Disabled Explorers In the World’s Most Badass Short Bus

Lance Blair was 18 when a truck blew a red light and removed his lower leg. “There was about a pinky-width of meat holding it on.” So Lance did the obvious thing: He built a diesel-powered wheelchair-accessible 4×4 adventure truck.

Granted, it took Lance a couple of decades to put together the “Wheelchair Accessible Van for Expeditions”—the “WAVE.” After his motorcycle accident in 1988 he wasn’t sure he’d even walk again.

Check out the full, inspiring story at Gizmodo

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