Beastly Ford Truck Effortlessly Tackles the Mud…while a Chevy Sinks!

Ford cruises through the deep mud multiple times with ease, but the Chevy fails on the first try.

Sometimes, to see how important success is, you need to see someone fail and that is exactly what happens in this video of an old school Ford truck playing in the Walton Raceway mud bog in Canada. This footage from the Hunman Off-Road YouTube channel shows that after this old-school F-Series truck strolls through the mud over and over, a Chevrolet mud truck takes a shot at the pit and immediately fails, proving that the treacherous pit requires a good truck and a good driver.

Half of an F-Series

There are no details accompanying this video, but the cab is clearly from the sixth generation, which ran from 1973 through 1979. While it has badging on the fender, we can’t make out the number, so we don’t know what level of F-Series this was prior to being heavily modified, but the extent of the modifications are so great that the model really doesn’t matter. While the body and the chassis may have rolled out of a Ford factory together, every other aspect of this truck has been adapted for improved off-road performance.

Before the big, blue Ford hits the water for the first time, we can see that there is an elaborate suspension setup under the classic body which likely includes some upgrades to the chassis itself. Out back, the original bed is gone and it its place is a unique custom flatbed with side support rails and a rack that protects the back of the cab from whatever might come tumbling forward on a hard stop.

Finally, it is clearly powered by a V8 engine and it seems like it digs through the slop a bit better than any stock-powered truck from the sixth generation, so the odds are good that the engine has been modified almost as much as the underpinnings.

Trucks Versus Mud

The video begins with the old Ford truck storming across the mud pit from left to right. Upon first entry, we can see that this mud pit is really more of a dirty lake, with water deep enough to cover the huge mud tires or to swallow up an average truck. However, the old F-Series easily cruises across and back and across again without much effort.

At that point, you might be wondering if perhaps this mud bog is so wet that it is literally just like driving through a shallow lake with a hard base, but the video ends with a newer Chevrolet Silverado taking its turn. After watching the Ford make short work of the pit, the Chevy goes storming in and almost immediately noses down, stuck in the mud. The driver tries to dig out, but as the video ends, the tractor is coming to pull out the stuck truck.

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"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.

"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.

"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.

"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.

"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.

"Being based on Detroit," says Rall, "I never miss the North American International Auto Show, the Woodward Dream Cruise and Roadkill Nights, along with spending plenty of time raising hell on Detroit's Woodward Avenue with the best muscle car crowd in the world.

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