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This Video Of Grain Trucks Racing At A Fair Is Hilarious


This Video Of Grain Trucks Racing At A Fair Is Hilarious

Classic medium duty trucks are my jam. I love the things and while the majority of them have rotted and broken in half up here in New England, there are still thousands of them pressed into service hauling grain and stuff at farms all over the center of the country. My ownership of a couple of C50 trucks is proof positive that I have a hankering for these lumbering (semi) giants and never in my life had I heard of them being raced around a miniscule dirt track before BangShifter and drag race announcer extrodinare Ron Ward tipped me off to this video. Shot at some sort of a fair or festival it shows the final race between a pair of classic Dodges and a Chevy. Yes, there were heat races and yes those heat races were filmed, but the heaviest action was saved for the finals.

Taking a couple of shots in the dark here, I’m guessing that the oldest Dodge gas a 361 for power and the newer Dodge has a 413 (not a Max Wedge of course, the tough as nails and far less powerful truck version of that vaunted mill). The Chevy is most likely packing a 327 although it could have a straight six all the way up to a 348 if the stock engine is in the truck. Something tells us that the rules would not permit engine swaps for this type of racing but what the heck do I know? These are long wheelbase trucks with impossibly slow steering ratios on a very short course. It takes about 10 seconds for the action to get hot and heavy and by hot and heavy we mean trucks literally beached up on other trucks! You’ll see how that gets handled and the aftermath of the early race contact.

So, can the little Chevy stave off the charge of the mighty Dodges? Will it be complete bedlam? Will any of these trucks make more than about 10 mph during this race? Press play below and see for yourself!

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THREE CLASSIC GRAIN TRUCKS RACE TO (NEARLY) THE DEATH!


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10 thoughts on “This Video Of Grain Trucks Racing At A Fair Is Hilarious

  1. Anonymous

    What a waste. Shame to see this promoted here, to the point of considering abandoning this site. Anything passes for hilarious entertainment.
    -dulcich

    1. jerry z

      I can’t see that many trucks on that small track. It would.be bumper to bumper with more than eight trucks!

        1. Anonymous

          You guys are a couple of turkeys and chumps. Why not derby your rides if you have anything cool, that would be fun, and you can make it bumper to bumper with your pos.
          -dulcich

  2. Deaf Bob

    dulcich, might you feel better if those trucs were hauled straight to the scrap yard instead?
    Or sit in a field rotting away until just a pile of rust is left?
    Why not let those tired trucks go out in a blaze of glory, feeling better about itself..
    Go to any derby and alot will be mopars and chevys.. They are being taken out in a BLAZE OF GLORY and with HONOR..
    some places up in Canada derbies COMBINES!
    Ride on mowers, mini cars, mid sized cars, full sized cars, pickups, vans suburbans, combines, and grain trucks are derbied..
    To expect the boys running the site kowtow to one person is downright shameful..

  3. Ed Stringer

    Having grown up on a Kansas wheat farm, I can attest to the treatment combines get, compared to grain trucks and other equipment. Combines bring the harvest. They are expensive, and critical to farming operations. Pampered is not a strong enough word, they are revered and babied. Always in a shed, if one is available. Several years ago, the State Fair started Combine Demolition Derbies. I cannot describe how the spectators (most of whom are farmers and farm families) reacted. Glee, guffaws, cackles, laughter until they ran out of breath doesn’t come close to explaining how the incongruity of intentionally trashing the most cherished piece of equipment on the plains affected the crowd. Absolutely hilarious, and now a cherished tradition. Retired grain trucks should be stars of a show, somewhere. They earned it. This is great!

  4. Gary Smrtic

    This really pisses me off. Dodge trucks like this are rare, and these would have made GREAT ramp trucks for some nostalgia racer. The cabs were straight, they obviously ran. Reminds me of when that moron Jesse James crushed that Anglia.

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