Meanwhile, In Flyover Country
by
Jack Baruth
Published: December 17th, 2012
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What’s the lifted-truck equivalent of a Corvette drag-race calamity? Obviously, it’s the above video. (Warning: LANGUAGE IN VIDEO IS NSFW) But wait, there’s more.
This whole tug of war thing… is a thing!
Sometimes the results are inconclusive.
And sometimes people use the power of their trucks for good. This isn’t everyone’s idea of automotive enthusiasm, but who are we to say it’s any less valid than running a 458 Italia around Laguna Seca?
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I'm going to say "white" truck, "silver" truck because I'm not a truck fanboi and don't really have a dog in the hunt and there are, in reality, so many variables at play. Having said that, it's not often you see someone get their a$$ handed to them on a platter to that degree. I mean to be drug around a parking lot and then end up tossed and ending up in the totally opposite direction. It was funny! The look on the passenger's face in the white truck was priceless! Then the guy in the silver truck just calmly opens the door and steps out as if to say, "have you had enough"? I think that mouthy, heavy young woman indicted that she was involved with the silver truck so the winner went home with her. Sad to live in a world where you lose either way.
♪Tradition, tradition ♪Yeah, even the dumb ones live on. I remember ditch wars from the late 70s. Two trucks would back up by a very steep ditch. They were connected by an anchor rope, and then the tug-o-war began. The loser got winched out. The "winner" got to limp home with a smoking clutch. I used to run my CJ5 places it should never should have gone, but I never understood that.
That last video is especially ridiculous: it's a half ton (therefore non-diesel, with the Hemi caption confirming that), with freakin' 20" stock wheels, and it also appears to either be a RWD model or not shifted into 4WD. I'd wager it was putting no more torque to the ground in that configuration than a 1980s mini truck in 4-LO.
My personal favorite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k62gW3Se5e0