The open bed variant of the Vapid Yankee is a large truck featured in The Lost and Damned .
The Yankee is a large commercial truck featured in both the and the of the It is manufactured by Vapid in the HD Universe.
In all of its appearances, the Yankee is depicted as a box truck with a long wheelbase and a large cab with room for two occupants, including the driver. Like many industrial vehicles, the Yankee has a changing "skin", along with a random paint job. This means that the Yankee will have a random company logo printed on the side of the truck.
First introduced in GTA III, the Yankee is loosely based on the and is predominantly designed to be one of the largest straight-trucks available in the games, having a tall nose, a large grille in the center, and square-shaped headlights, as well as a boxed cargo compartment (which, by GTA: Vice City, would contain actual cargo).
*In Grand Theft Auto III and GTA: Liberty City Stories, the truck has three horizontal separations for the grille and small tail lights on the rear bumper, as well as taller units on the rear edges of the box and license plates on both bumpers. This rendition appears in a variety of primary colors applied to the cab and most of the rear box, while the front bumper, headlight housings, window trims, door handles, rear-view mirrors and fuel tanks are painted with a secondary color (usually in shades of gray). *In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the truck gains minor tweaks to the model, such as a slightly rounded front bumper with circular vents and no license plate, detail on the hood and the doors, six separations on the grille, and additional tail lights on the rear bumper, together with a single exhaust pipe on the left and an extended cargo hold compared to the GTA III model. In GTA: Vice City Stories, the details on the cab have a silver finish and a license plate is added on the front bumper. The truck spawns in a variety of primary colors for the cabin and secondary colors for the box, and appears to have a darker/worn effect. *In GTA: San Andreas, the design of the truck is largely similar to the GTA Vice City model, but has five separations on the grille and single tail lights on the rear bumper instead of the dual set from the aforementioned iteration, as well as no vents on the front bumper and no details on the hood and doors. Again, the truck spawns in a variety of primary colors for the cabin and secondary colors for the box.
The GTA IV rendition assumes the design of an 1980s International Harvester S-Series/1980s GMC Topkick, and appears to retain the characteristics from the 3D Universe iterations, but is noticeably taller and bigger.
The front of the truck has a large metal bumper with riveted details, sporting a small license plate in the center and small vents beside it. The upper area of the cowl (hood) sports a large frontal grille with two vertical separations and seven horizontal separations, with the former being wider than the latter, while a small plate with the Vapid logo is seen in the center. The fenders have a set of circular headlights on the frontal section and square turn signals mounted above, while the nose has a small upper intake near the windshield and gray "YANKEE" lettering on the sides. The cabin sports large side steps and handles for access, as well as large rear-view mirrors.
The rear section mainly consists of the cargo box, which features various marker lights and black protruding strips along the sides, as well as mudguards for the rear wheels. The rear end has two large cargo doors and an extended section with another protruding strip. The tail lights are mounted on a rear guard seen below the truck, while the license plate is mounted below the rear-left corner of the box and has a red marker light above. The chassis has two large side-mounted fuel tanks and a single exhaust pipe below, which ends slightly ahead of the left fuel tank. Depending of the livery, a cooling apparatus can be seen above the cab.
The Yankee is seen in two possible color combinations, consisting of a primary one for most of the cabin and a secondary one for the frontal area and in the form of a wide stripe passing around the cab; the first one is a light gray primary with a white secondary, while the second one is a darker variation with a blue secondary. The Yankee is available either in blank or in one of six liveries: Sprunk, Liberty State Delivery, Redwood Cigarettes, eCola, Pisswasser, or Binco. The eCola, Pisswasser, and Binco variants all have a cooling apparatus above the cab, while the Sprunk variant does not. The Sprunk variant also appears to be heavily worn down compared to the others, while the Liberty State Delivery variant is seemingly clean. Optionally, graffiti marks can be seen on any of these versions. It uses large industrial wheels with a similar design to the ones seen on vehicles such as the Benson, the Mule and the Phantom.
