Extreme Sports Legend's Truck Conquers The Mountain

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Raphael Orlove
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Shaun Palmer, Olympic snowboarder, X-games champion, and "godfather of extreme sports" raced his heavily modified GMC Syclone up the 2003 Pikes Peak hillclimb. It was as badass as you thought it would be.

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We don't get much engine noise from the 12 minute, 12.46 second run, but we do get a fittingly metalhead soundtrack. The Prince of Darkness approves!

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