The guys from Hot Rod Magazine and Peterson’s 4 Wheel & Offroad got together to do a cheap truck challenge. The premise was simple: build the best all around off-road truck on a high school kid’s budget. They set the parameters of being able to spend $2000 on the truck and $2000 on modifications. The three teams ended up fielding an old Toyota truck with a Marlin Crawlers transfer case, a Ford Bronco and a huge Chevy Suburban. They drag raced them, hill climbed, jumped some sand dunes and some strange test where they taped a gallon of milk to the hood and ran a course trying to get the fastest time while spilling the least. Basically they got some beaters and flogged them as another tribute to the mentality of “You don’t need to spend a lot of money to have fun.”