This week’s Muddy Mondays feature looks at a 2ng generation Dodge Ram 1500 with a lift kit and a set of serious 40 inch offroad tires. In most of our Muddy Mondays features, we look at a truck playing in some nice thick mud that will cover the vehicle in a healthy coat of mud but in today’s video – the driver of the Ram takes on what is more realistically a small pond. The description refers to this body of water as “the trusty old mud bog while the water is deep” but by all accounts – this jacked up Ram is driving through a pond.
The 2nd gen Ram 1500 only makes two passes through the “mud” and while the second run looks like it might end up with something else pulling the hero vehicle out of the deep water, the Magnum V8 keeps on churning and the Ram is able to get up out of the water. As the video ends, the driver opens the door to let the water out of the cab as his passenger jokes about the video ending up online.
You know that you’ve done some quality offroading when your headlights are under water and the cab is filling with water.
"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.
"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.
"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.
