2025 Ford Bronco Stroppe Special Edition: A Tonka Truck for Grown Ups
Once, a long time ago, I competed in the Baja 1000, the infamous desert race down the Baja California Peninsula, from Ensenada to La Paz. Once was plenty. I soiled my racing suit. I developed hypothermia and severe dehydration and hallucinated as if I had eaten jimson weed. I barfed in my closed-face helmet six times. When our Class 1 buggy crossed the finish line, 10 hours behind the winners, I was wearing a garland of lightly used Mexican food around my neck.
I saw a lot of crazy things through the steel mesh windshield of that machine—an open-framed, rear-engine camel cricket with 30 inches of wheel travel at each corner. Among the most amazing were lunatics tackling the same race, the same bone-jarring trails and drenching river crossings, in lightly modified production cars and trucks: the stock class.
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