Mike Finnegan has had an absolutely enviable fleet of square-body GM tow rigs over the last decade or so, from his Cummins-swapped C30 ramp truck from the Roadkill fleet to Square Force One, his four-door C30 former race hauler, to his gigantic, bright-red GMC TopKick enclosed hauler. We have duly coveted each one.
But for me, the square-body Chevy Suburban in this week’s episode tops them all. It’s powered by a turbocharged 6.0-liter GM LS V-8. That’s the same engine that does the Lord’s work in the UTV Driver Chevy Express. We love that engine thanks mostly to the beating it has absorbed from us over the last three years. At 260-odd thousand miles, it makes perfect oil pressure and gobs of power, even when we force it to drag side-by-sides across these United States at 80 mph.
Because it’s Finnegan, the conversation in this episode quickly turns to intake air temperatures and making more power and quarter-mile times. The truck has a best pass of 10.30, which is, to put it mildly, nuts. But that isn’t really what we’re here for.
With all that power, the perfect patina, and the coolest truck body style Detroit ever minted, we can’t stop daydreaming about pressing this thing into service the next time we have a Can-Am to haul somewhere. And with that much power on tap, we’d damn sure get there quickly.
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