Watch The “Swamp Thing” Chevy Do What It Does Best – Work In The Mud And The Muck!


Watch The “Swamp Thing” Chevy Do What It Does Best – Work In The Mud And The Muck!

There’s a mindset that hard work requires you to get down and dirty. Grease under your fingernails, mud on your boots, dirt on your face, and sweat turning all of that into some kind of funky macho makeup that tells anyone around you that you bust your ass to make your living. Call it “L’essence de Mike Rowe”. It’s that gritty look that works if you’re posing for a firefighter’s calendar but otherwise makes loved ones throw soap at you and tell you to wash your raggedy ass in the backyard. But as someone who buys into that idea, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve spent years sweating, dirty, reeking of chemicals and whatever I just stepped in and I’ve done exactly three months in a cube farm. I know where I’d rather be.

This 1970s-ish Chevy medium duty truck is the furthest thing from pretty I’ve found in quite some time, and it’s awesome for that. It’s beat, it’s loud, and it’s only reason for existing is to do work. This thing is the automotive equivalent of a draught horse, a heavy beast that is best used for work that would break smaller trucks. It’s four-wheel-drive, and more than likely it’s packing either a 366ci or 427ci V8 behind the manual trans. Duals all the way around with chains help this heavy beast plow through the swampy trails and the mud, the plow-like digging attachment up front and the crane out back can clear trails, and as far as yanking out stuck trucks…no sweat. It’s big, ugly and functional, and it’s called “Swamp Thing” for good reason. Let’s just hope that it never goes up for sale…there may be no stopping Brian if he learns about it.


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