130 miles an hour into the great wide open with Monster Energy’s elite off-road racers. Rocks, silt, blind crests, suspension collapsing jumps and holes and a race against time all add up to one of the nastiest and unforgiving races on planet earth. Welcome to Vegas to Reno.
Archive for the ‘Trucks’ Category
This time around, Freiburger and Finnegan travel to Santa Rosa, California, to drive a crazy ’74 Mazda REPU mini-truck all the way back to SoCal, where they’ll compete in Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car Challenge.
The Mazda is an oddity, originally powered by a rotary engine but later converted to Olds Toronado front-wheel drive drivetrain sometime in the late-1980s. With a 455ci big-block and ’69 Toronado transaxle slid between the rear frame rails, the seller claimed wheelies and 10-second ETs. However, Finnegan and Freiburger quickly discover their $5,000 mini-truck has more style than substance. Can they hang with the big dogs at the races?
BJ Baldwin heads to the Pacific Northwest with his 800hp Trophy Truck to battle Bruce The Sasquatch in a showdown for the ages
So I went to the drag races yesterday and happened to be videoing when this Jet Truck blew up. Watch as the fuel line ruptures and jet fuel comes pouring out around the rear tire just before it explodes.