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144 Mpg With Big Red
July, 2009
Author: Isaac Mion
Photography: Isaac Mion
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Dino Fuel Alternatives updated the look of Big Red by adding the Buckstop Baja bumper and matching it to the factory red. This item houses Hella foglights, Lightforce 240XGT driving lights, and a Warn winch-kind of like a Batmobile bumper. Below the bumper, the adjustable air ride suspension from Kelderman is visible in all of its adjustable splendor. A Firestone computerized unit controls the bags. These in turn adjust the length of the Bilstein 7100 series remote-reservoir shocks.
When Kelderman originally built this Dodge, it cracked necks on the show circuit for three or four years, starting in 2003. The big, red, Dodge laid low for a while, until Dino Fuel Alternatives of Denver, Colorado, found out it had been picked for SEMA's Making Green Cool Zone. The company asked if it could use Big Red to showcase Dino Fuel Alternatives.

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To ensure this rig has the rolling stock to match the rest of its supreme chassis and body, 24-inch Diesel Vintage series rims are wrapped by 37-inch Toyo Open Country tires.
Intimidated at the thought of navigating such a behemoth around the city, I let the truck sit out there for a day or two. The keys sat on the coffee table as well, until late one Thursday night when I had settled in for an episode of Law and Order. A friend called saying he wanted to meet up. Immediately, the keys piped up. "What are you, some kind of softy?" they said. Fifteen minutes later I was groomed and dressed and stepping up into the cabin of the Dodge-my first time behind the wheel of a monster truck-like a kid stealing his parents' car. I fired up the oil-burner and depressed the clutch. That's right, this thing is a stick and it was sick. I used to work in a rail yard in college and we had to drive semis around the lot, so the Dodge's H-pattern presented no drama. As I engaged First gear, the first thing I noticed was the immediate availability of torque. It seemed to come on like a Pamplonan bull from around 500 rpm. Oh yeah, I remembered, this is a diesel, and it has power that arrives down low in the rpm range then drops off right when you think the party is getting started. Like a strip club that closes at 9:30.

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