Hey there, many of you know that every year our sister magazine Fourwheeler puts on the Top Truck Challenge, well I'm trying to go this year.
Top truck has grown into a monster event where everyone is running massive tires, huge motors, and giant axles, plus it's can literally eat trucks alive. And most of you know we don't have anything in our project garage ready for that type of event (except Ali's soon to be finished monster mudder Durango), so what could we possibly enter that would stand a chance? Then we got the letter from Toyota, asking for their FJ Cruiser back. You see, the FJ Cruiser (aka the turtle) we built for Ultimate Adventure a few years back was actually a prototype truck and after a few years Toyota wanted it back to send to the crusher. (it all revolves around the legal dept not wanting this pre-production truck to end up being sold) Now we're not too upset about this as we knew it would happen some day and we'll definitely pull all the good parts and stuff them into something else down the road, but first how about one last hurrah! for the FJ? that's right folks, I entered the Turtle in TTC, and I need your help getting voted in. I hate to say it but the turtle is going to getting driven like a rental car with full coverage, and though we may not win we'll definitley put on one heck of a show. In fact the truck is already under the knife to trim some weight and give it a fighting chance against the bigger buggy-mobiles that dominate this event. So head on out and grab the current issue of Fourwheeler and help vote us in and give this little FJ (yes even though it's on 39-inch tires it's still considered little in Top Truck) one last blow out trail ride.