When you don’t care one iota about your vehicle, when it’s time has come, you call someone with a tow truck to drag it’s sorry carcass off to the giant metal pancake maker. When you do care, you don’t just send the car or truck on it’s way quietly into that good night…you let it rage one final time before it dies with it’s boots on. Or, at least, that’s the effect you get watching the action from the Tough Truck racing action from Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park. If off-roading is your gig and you want a course laid out that provides a great racing surface for the driver and great entertainment for the crowd, you can’t ask for much more than for what the driver of the Grave Digger monster truck lays out. Jumps, whoops, and more jumps, plus a mud pit off to the side. It’s like the 3S challenge races meet Super Off-Road, but with more crunching metal, bent body panels, transmission death and the omnipresent RAH-RAH-RAH-RAH of a Jeep 4.0L six pounding away at the rev limiter. Sure, it’s a bit barbaric, but these Jeeps, Samurais, and even the Silverado all served faithfully…and now it’s time to make the tough decision: do you simply end the suffering or do you let Ol’ Paint out for one final hurrah?
I really did a double take when somebody brought a CR-V on the course. Didn’t expect somebody to bring one of those.