Occasionally, we get our kicks watching someone as they take a mildly prepared rig like a Jeep Grand Cherokee onto a Tough Truck course and prove just how durable they truly are. That’s the roots of Tough Truck competition. A course was prepared and if you wanted to show off what your four-wheel-drive was capable of, you paid the money, entered the contest and hoped that you won. But that was the 1990s…now, it’s either full-tilt race machines or it’s beaters on their last leg, making a parade lap before being sent off to the great big squeezer. We’ve shown you plenty of the street-level classes, but what does an open class look like? Well, it looks like a mix of beaters that haven’t learned how to die, race trucks prepared for some exceptionally brutal use, and some of the fastest Jeep CJs we’ve ever seen skate around in the dirt. It’s everything from vicious S-10s with V8 swaps making speed runs to a Toyota making a mockery of the laws of gravity. We’d love to give a track like this a shot, but the question does come down to what we’d use. And if you’re asking us, we’d go with one of those Jeeps. Click play below to see what we mean!
