The World's Fastest Truck

I almost stopped for the Pheasant Festival in Leamington SD on my way to Georgia. BBQ pheasant buffet for $10, lawn mower races and a street dance later that evening. What's not to like? LOL

JJ

Plankington SD, not that it really matters. LOL

BTW... Those Tractor Pulls are bada$$. Those are guys with too much money and too much time on their hands!

There's a guy right down the road from me with one of those twin turbine pulling tractors. I used to be a huge NASCAR fan and I'm still a huge NHRA fan and I hit the local tracks for oval racing. And there's a million other things I'm into. But seriously, turbine engines on a tractor to pull a weighted sled through the dirt???? Of all of the things literally in the world you could do with your money you're going to pull something heavy through dirt?

Obviously that's an insane amount of power but you could've had a top fuel dragster!!!!

When I was a kid in Iowa, the local farmers would have a tractor pull in the summer as part of a bigger annual festival. They got their work tractors over to the baseball field, hooked up a sled, then had a couple dozen big guys stand in a line on either side. As the sled when past, one or two more big guys would step onto the sled till the tractor couldn't go. Winner got bragging rights for a year.

I talked to a guy who published a racing magazine in North Carolina in the 50s and 60s, before NASCAR got big, or even was a thing. It sounded similar, only with a little more money in the pot.