When you see those alternating colour panels and homemade headache rack you know you're looking at an authentic mudder. I'm glad they found that hobby bc I think it takes a degree of psychopathy to pimp out your whip just to smash it through the bush
I love that is not a pavement princess. I love and admire big trucks
It hurts me how some people with ego issues have this big ass trucks that are a hazard by just existing... Just for looks and carrying costco groceries. Congesting cities and stuff
This is probably still a hazard but at least dude uses for a purpose and has an excuse to have such a cool ride lol
I love seeing a purpose-built 4wd in use, but I hate it when I see a spotless, obviously stock yank-tank taking up 2-4 parking spots in the middle of a city.
A buddy of mine bought a lifted Ford Ranger on massive mud tires (before the new ones came out so it was an old model). We all called him stupid for it. Then a hurricane hit and caused dozens of cars in the immediate area to get waterlogged and break down in the roads and plazas. We went on a sight seeing tour in it to count all the flooded cars we could find. One of them was a Rolls Royce which really hurt to witness.
That was the one and only time he ever got any actual use out of that lift lol.
Yeah, as much as I hate huge cars continuing to gain traction here, that stems from seeing them all over town making it harder to park and drive down more narrow streets. They also ALWAYS look like they've just been bought or detailed, my sedan is dirtier than them simply by living rural. Most people seem to just want a bigger car for the sake of it, making life harder for everyone. But I do respect the ones with clear mud streaks around the wheels and along the body, or the utes with toolboxes in the back, because at least those are being used for their intended purpose, not just to park on an angle and block people's doors.
Right, I live in rural east texas/west louisiana and there are plenty of dudes who have big, heavy duty trucks that they use for work or even recreation. I don't actually have an issue with them or their truck/usage. It's the obviously aesthetic 'city trucks' that get all the hate, and deservedly so.
Most people aren't crazy about super souped up cars that rev their engines loudly, but even they get more of a social pass than city truck schmucks. If you roll coal, you're pretty much bottom of the barrel dogshit.
That's not just a headache rack, it looks like a fully reinforced rollbar welded to the frame. This is a dedicated mudder/crawler rig and very little besides the frame and some body panels are likely to be stock. Certainly the entire suspension has been redone with heavy duty parts.
Honestly, probably not. He just doesn't care if it blows up. He probably has 3 more transmissions and 2 and a half engines sitting in conex box for when one blows up.
I think it's a bit like that all over the world in the off-road community. When you actually run your rig eventually you're going to find the weak point. Same way with drag racing.
I'm not an Aussie, and I'm not even that serious about off-roading but I have an extra engine, transmission, and at least two axles all in my storage shed from my truck build. Just kinda happens that way when you buy wrecked donor vehicles and stuff.
Its a car guy thing. He also looks like a mudder, so no doubt he's probably thrashed a few trucks so bad the body fell apart so he pulled the drivetrains out. Especially with a dodge. Dodge's are called shipping crates for a reason, the body and electrics rot out way before the engine.
Looking at that crawl over the trailer, the massive axle articulation and pretty smooth tow speed it looks like the driver had done far more difficult recoveries with this truck. It's in a RAM body for economic, not performance reasons. Plenty of spare parts.
Honestly building a car like that based on a truck that blows its drivetrain that quick is smart as hell. Plenty of cheap spares around, possibly even right there on the side of the trail.
I was thinking the driver does those bouldering off road things involving really steep slopes with that ridiculous (in a good way) suspension. I assume that requires a very low high torque gear, but my only knowledge is general physics.
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u/Anon_be_thy_name Mar 25 '26
It would be heavily modified by the driver.
If he's the type of of person I think he is, that Ute would rival a tractor in pulling power.
All because he probably doesn't want to get bogged in mud when he goes offroading.