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Ford Harley-Davidson Edition Super Duty

Ford Cabela's, Harley-Davidson Edition Super Duty Trucks Officially Official

We told you about the Cabela's Edition Super Duty and Harley-Davidson Super Duty pickups from Ford, and now we have official press shots straight out of Dearborn. The Cabela's special edition will feature two-tone paint, special running boards, mud flaps and the all-important Cabela's badge to prove you eat your road kill. Low-key cycle enthusiasts will prefer the Harley-Davidson "Big Hog Daddy" F-450 with custom blue-flame paint job and requisite Harley badging. Special Edition outfitting aside, the new trucks can also be ordered with Ford's Sync system, spray-in bedliners and a cool automatic tool tracking system for the job site. Full press release after the jump.


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2008 Ford F-Series Super Duty

It's difficult to imagine any of you Jalops needing to haul 20,000 pounds. We also doubt many of you are in the market for a truck whose price tag easily hits $40,000 to take off-roading. But what if you came across a half-dozen utes sitting in the middle of California's Rubicon Trail, each adorned with a sign reading "Take me"? Sure, that's totally plausible. So, when Ford invited us to put its 2008 Super Duty through some of the more rigorous tasks a vehicle will ever face, we struggled to come up with a reason to turn them down. After all, this thing has wheels (sometimes even six of them!) and we like things with wheels, do we not? More »