We’re going to be running a series of items over the coming days and weeks called “Celebrity Car Death Match” where we’ll pit two iconic cars, trucks, motorcycles, or other vehicles against one another in a tournament of death matches. Winner moves on, loser burns with the shame of defeat! This is serious stuff and we will advance a winner by the comments below the item, so be sure to chime in and tell us who the victor is and who will be rusting at the bottom of the ocean or squashed under a wrecking ball.

Last week’s winners:

General Lee DEFEATS KITT

Reno Raines’ Harley DEFEATS Ponch and Jon’s Kawasaki police bikes

The Bluesmobile DEFEATS Buford T Justice’s 1977 Pontiac LeMans

Today’s death match: The 1973 Ford wrecker from 1974’s Gone In 60 Seconds VS The 1951 Dodge M-37 Wrecker From It’s a Mad Mad Mad World

It is a battle of wreckers today and both of these trucks are wreckers in the truest sense of the word in their movie rolls. We’ll lead off with the younger half of this battle in the form of the 1973 Ford F-350 wrecker that sports  Holmes 440 tow rig on the back and was used to heist and then crush a Dodge Challenger. This truck also mashed up a  cop car, won a chase by causing a copper in a 1965 Plymouth Belvedere to eat the back of a truck and did a pretty impressive job of hanging onto said Challenger that was being whipped around behind the truck like a toy as the driver swerved, jammed gears, and ripped u-turns. Ultimately, the disguised driver dropped the hot Challenger at a wrecking yard where it was promptly plucked up by a crane and deposited into a shredding machine that turned it into shards about the size of potato chips.

The second half of the battle is a bit of an honorary choice. Comedic giant Jonathan Winters passed away last week and he drove this truck during the classic movie, “Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, World”. The truck is a classic 1951 Dodge M-37 equipped with an old hand crank style towing unit on the back. While the truck itself is but one of many cool cars that appear in the movie, the way Winters procures it makes the thing special. His character literally destroys the gas station it is parked in front of when the attendants try to detain Winters on the advice of a foe in the film. The fact that the Dodge manages to finish off the gas station job by taking down a water tower and some other stuff endears it to us totally.

Now you have the unfortunate duty of killing a truck. Which will make the cut? Watch the videos and check out the photos below. Only one of these tough bastards can live. The other will meet its end in the most painful of ways! COMMENT BELOW TO TELL US WHICH WRECKER LIVES THE FORD F-350 OR THE CLASSIC DODGE M-37!