In the early 80’s Ford was going to put the 2.3L Turbo engine from the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe into a regular cab short bed Ranger. I was working at Roush Industries at the time and was assigned to this program. We had a half dozen development trucks and we were progressing through the testing required [...] More »

In the early 80’s Ford was going to put the 2.3L Turbo engine from the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe into a regular cab short bed Ranger. I was working at Roush Industries at the time and was assigned to this program. We had a half dozen development trucks and we were progressing through the testing required [...] More »

While highway tires and all terrain tires have them built in, most mud tires do not have sipes in their tread blocks. This not only increases wear and heat in those tires, but can also decrease traction. We’ll briefly show you how to sipe the tread blocks and explain how and why it works. There [...] More »

Since the 2015 Ford F-150 was unveiled at the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, there has been more than a little speculation over the addition of aluminum body panels. Critics do not believe that an aluminum body panel can be tough enough for the most popular truck in America, but the Motor [...] More »

Not all builds are clean. In fact, some are quite messy and take a lot of kicking, prodding, sifting, and head-scratching in order to get right. Some start out simple and complacent, and others are… not so nice. Member usuallybowtie ended up with the latter with this 1975 Ford F-100. Though Chevy trucks are his normal [...] More »

In the motorsports world, there are few trucks more recognizable than the Ford F Series beast known as Bigfoot. While Bob Chandler’s original Bigfoot #1 has launched a million dollar sport in which many of the monster trucks don’t actually look like any production truck sold in America, Bob’s early monster trucks were based directly [...] More »

It takes some guts to go out on a monster truck track with a tony, plain-looking Ford Explorer with a line of massive, beast-like trucks watching from the side and contemplating squishing you into the dirt. It takes guts to do that, but it takes an amazing sense of humor to do it with inflatable [...] More »