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What It's Like To Drive A Life-Size Tonka Truck
What It's Like To Drive A Life-Size Tonka Truck-August 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:19

Last week for part one of our season finale we took you inside the . But we weren’t about to leave their ranch without playing in the sand box! For that we need this supercharged, ten-inch-lifted, t-shirt cannon-packing pickup truck.

Tonka’s been selling steel-made toy trucks for almost half a century, but what they’re really selling is fun. That’s why they keep building and strapping a city’s worth of blinky lights on ‘em to make kids go nuts.

This extended-cab Toyota Tundra has a TRD supercharger strapped to the standard 5.7 V8, a 10” lift, tires the size of one Prius a piece, and basically every light in the Rigid Industries LED catalog.

Did I mention the t-shirt cannon? Oh yeah. There’s a t-shirt cannon. The Tonka Tundra’s dressed in the same “rescue” livery as the . But instead of, you know, rescue, it just brings the par-tay y’all.

Hop in with myself and professional off-road racer Myan Spaccarelli to see how that cannon works, and if we can do donuts in this monster without parking it on its roof!

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