The owner of this Super Duty decides to splash through a puddle and turns a Dallas street into the world’s most short-lived water park.
Ford Super Duty trucks are hard to ignore. They’re absolutely massive. According to the Blue Oval, a four-wheel-drive 2019 F-250 Crew Cab is almost 21 feet long, nearly seven feet tall, and close to nine feet wide (when equipped with standard mirrors). The owner of the F-250 in this Instagram video from Sucio’s Towing (aka suciostang) made their truck even more noticeable – and a random street into a splash zone.
Before the action even starts, it’s clear that this particular F-250 is even more visible than it was when it left the factory. If you look quickly, you’ll see it’s equipped with a replacement front bumper and brush guard. It rides higher than stock on a lift over a set of aftermarket wheels and tires.
Shortly after the footage starts, you can see that the F-250 is also pulling a two-axle flatbed trailer. It’s unloaded, but it definitely adds to the F-250’s already substantial length.
Then there’s the sound. This all goes down in Dallas, Texas, but people in Austin could probably hear this monster coming. It has a piece of hardware that’s louder than the roar of its 6.7-liter Power Stroke turbodiesel: Its horn. All horns are loud; the one fitted to this Super Duty is on another level. That’s because you’re used to hearing its clamor right before a fully loaded cargo train blasts through a railroad crossing.
A second or so after the driver warns everyone within 200 miles of their presence, they reach maximum presence by roaring through a large puddle on the road. The combination of their speed and the massive amount of real estate they’re piloting sends up two giant waves of rain water. The splash is so large that it temporarily obscures the gigantic mass that caused it in the first place.
If you roll up anywhere in a Super Duty King Ranch, you’re already making an impressive entrance. The driver of this F-250 started off quietly, but ended up making one hell of an exit.
Derek Shiekhi's father raised him on cars. As a boy, Derek accompanied his dad as he bought classics such as post-WWII GM trucks and early Ford Mustang convertibles.
After loving cars for years and getting a bachelor's degree in Business Management, Derek decided to get an associate degree in journalism. His networking put him in contact with the editor of the Austin-American Statesman newspaper, who hired him to write freelance about automotive culture and events in Austin, Texas in 2013. One particular story led to him getting a certificate for learning the foundations of road racing.
While watching TV with his parents one fateful evening, he saw a commercial that changed his life. In it, Jeep touted the Wrangler as the Texas Auto Writers Association's "SUV of Texas." Derek knew he had to join the organization if he was going to advance as an automotive writer. He joined the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) in 2014 and was fortunate to meet several nice people who connected him to the representatives of several automakers and the people who could give him access to press vehicles (the first one he ever got the keys to was a Lexus LX 570). He's now a regular at TAWA's two main events: the Texas Auto Roundup in the spring and the Texas Truck Rodeo in the fall.
Over the past several years, Derek has learned how to drive off-road in various four-wheel-drive SUVs (he even camped out for two nights in a Land Rover), and driven around various tracks in hot hatches, muscle cars, and exotics. Several of his pieces, including his article about the 2015 Ford F-150 being crowned TAWA's 2014 "Truck of Texas" and his review of the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, have won awards in TAWA's annual Excellence in Craft Competition. Last year, his JK Forum profile of Wagonmaster, a business that restores Jeep Wagoneers, won prizes in TAWA’s signature writing contest and its pickup- and SUV-focused Texas Truck Invitational.
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