A Ram 2500 Can Make All Your (Hobby) Dreams Come True
This guy does everything you imagine you’d do with a pickup — hunting, wheeling, towing — in what’s the perfect mild ride.
Sometimes we dream of ridiculous builds. Something on air that can scrape the asphalt at one moment, and ride comfortably at the next. Or a lifted mud-slinging classic Dodge with a 12-valve Cummins swap. Then, in moments of clarity, we think, “nah, what would we really drive…” This guy, Jason Brentzel, on Instagram has that ride.
Brentzel is sporting a Ram 2500 with the Cummins turbodiesel on 37-inch Nitto tires. Just the right amount of clearance in our eyes. The truck has an S&P cold air intake and a 5-inch turbo-back exhaust kit and have a full EGR delete. Brentzel says on one of his posts that he’s getting 20-22 mpg on the highway and 18 mpg around town. Not half bad for a long bed! He’s got a Mini Maxx tuner on it, of course. Who would get a newer diesel and do without? The best part of this truck: manual transmission. Call us old-fashioned, but we like the control a manual offers when towing, wheeling, and just plain driving.
Brentzel does all of the things you would hope he’d do with a pickup truck too. He tows, he hunts, he goes off-roading. From the multitude of motorcycle pictures he has, including a handful of wicked looking supermoto bikes (dirtbike with street-bike slick tires), we’d guess he likes a little adrenaline rush.
His projects include a five-speed manual Lexus SC300 drift car.
A handsome looking boat. We’d guess sport fishing?
A Subaru Forester, for hauling the kids and doing road trips.
And a TON of motorcycles. Like, as many as we dream of owning. Except, it’s not a dream for him.
Wheeling seems to be a piece of cake in his rig too. Though, with trails like this, he’d best invest in some detachable sway bars.
Snow drifting? Check.
The stock-ish ride-height would make us check the depth first, but he keeps it slow and steady through the creek. No mouthful of water here.
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