If you’re going to be tailgating throughout a backcountry deep pow snowboard shesh, you need Ken Block’s RaptorTRAX there offering assist. This is the machine you employ to drive snowboarders to the highest of a mountain that doesn’t have a chairlift. The riders don’t even need to deliver their moist snowy selves into the cab, as there are a pair of seats within the mattress, and a rack on the perimeters to strap down your boards. There’s even a hitch-mounted grill so you possibly can cook dinner up some scorching canines on the mountain. Now it’s on the market for a paltry $195,000.
“We built this truck because I love to snowboard in the backcountry,” defined Block. “There are several ways to do that; helicopter, snowcat, snowmobile. I thought this would be a good way to do it quite quickly, faster than a snowcat, but not as expensive as a heli.”
Ford delivered a then-new Ford Raptor with an built-in cage, then the Hoonigan workforce constructed out the widebody package, skid plates, customized bumpers, auxiliary lighting, and put in the 4 tracks instead of the truck’s wheels. The manufacturing facility 6.2-liter V8 was boosted with a wholesome Whipple supercharger to make 650 horsepower, only a few shy of the present Raptor R.
The truck was featured in a giant snowboarding video on the Monster YouTube channel in 2014, the place it obtained 5.3 million views. Set to a rad needle drop from The Decendents, riders Zak Hale and Ethan Deiss spend a stunning day getting shuttled round Baldface Lodge by Mr. Block and his monitor’d Raptor. Interestingly, the construct breakdown of the truck, additionally on Monster’s channel, obtained over 10 million views with no snowboarding motion or cool music. The web is a bizarre place.
The people at LBI Limited in Philadelphia, Penn. have been trusted with promoting just a few of the opposite members of the Ken Block assortment lately, together with the Hoonitruck, his Fiesta from Gymkhana Three (my favourite of the Gymkhana collection), the Fiesta from Gyms six, eight, and Terrakhana, which was additionally used for his 2013 Global Rallycross efforts, and his self-described dream automobile, a 1986 Ford RS200. The RaptorTRAX has simply hit the market, additionally by way of LBI, and the asking worth is $195,000. That’s an entire hell of much more than you’d pay for an everyday 2014 Ford Raptor (KBB says $27,800 is a typical worth), however that is hardly an everyday 2014 Raptor. It’s additionally nearly double what you’d pay for a brand new Raptor R, however are these customized touches and the Ken Block issue price an additional 85 grand? That’s so that you can determine.
Source: jalopnik.com