YouTuber Transforms Old F-250 Super Duty into a Soaring Super-Truck!
This V10-powered Ford F-250 Super Duty probably was once a strong, reliable work truck. Now it’s a high-flying stunt machine.
Ford Super Duty trucks generally don’t lead easy lives. They’re built to work hard and they’re bought to do that day in and day out for several years and hundreds of thousands of miles. If you see one that’s even a few years old, it’s probably covered in the scrapes and scars that come from going off-road and being used at job sites. Canadian YouTuber Mark Freeman found a way to make one battered old F-250’s life even more arduous. He turned it into a stunt truck.
Freeman has made a name for himself by maiming and destroying junky vehicles in spectacular fashion. One of his go-to methods is sending them up a dirt mound at a high rate of speed and seeing how high and far they can jump. Freeman managed to get his hands on a beater of a V10-powered F-250 Super Duty. After selling the bed off of it, he has little use for it other than finding out what kind of hang time it can get. “She should jump well. It’s four-wheel-drive and it hauls. It’s freakin’ fast.” Of course, he doesn’t want to be behind the wheel when the truck takes off or have the truck keep going forward once it lands, so he rigs a kill switch that will cut the fuel supply when he hits a button on a remote.
Once Freeman has the F-250 in position, he wedges a piece of wood between the front seat and the gas pedal, shifts the truck into drive, then jumps out of the door and watches the truck shoot ahead.
His first few attempts end with the truck plowing through dirt or veering off course.
Fortunately for us, Freeman doesn’t give up. He tries one more time. The truck starts off straight, stays that way, and launches off the top of its natural ramp. It hovers in the air for two seconds before hitting the ground nose first. Freeman and his pals go toward the truck to assess the damage. Before they even reach the F-250, it’s clear what toll the stunt took on it. Parts of its grille are in the grass. Upon closer inspection, the truck’s windshield is majorly spider-webbed in two spots, the front suspension is shot, and both front airbags have fired out of their covers.
But it’s still not as trashed as Freeman and his crew thought it would be. In fact, the Triton V10 fires right up when Freeman tries to start it. He says, “That’s why you buy a Ford, baby.” They’re clearly built to take abuse and keep going. It’s too bad the F-250’s transfer case calls it quits, though. Freeman reports, “Four-by-four is gone,” which renders the truck incapable of getting out of the grass and dirt it rocketed into. What a shame. The guys were ready to send the F-250 flying again…and we wanted to watch.
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