Most off-road fans would love to just own a Trophy Truck, but Terrible Herbst Motorsports has a different agenda. The team has two trucks they currently run in the SCORE and Best in the Desert (BITD) series, but are in the process of building two new trucks in record time as well.

“One of the best parts about being apart of an off-road race team is building a new truck,” Todd Gorsuch said. “The schedule is very tight, we plan to have these tested by Christmas this year, with their first race being the Bluewater Resort Parker 425 in February. Things are usually pretty calm around the shop after the Baja 1000, that will not be the case this year.”

The trucks are being assembled together, one is not much further ahead then the other. The team started work on the truck as soon as they returned from the BITD Vegas to Reno race. With that being said the trucks have about seven weeks of work into them already. The chassis are almost complete, all the suspension components are built, and everything else is ready to be placed in the truck.

“These new trucks are going to be around 2,000 pounds lighter than the old trucks which were built around 2006,” Jason Montes said. “The chassis of the second truck is almost complete, and the fuel cell is almost done. Once we finish that we can send it out to have a custom bladder made for it. In the past building a Trophy Truck would take a year to build, with having everything laser cut, bent, and notched assembly goes a lot quicker.”

The truck comes in on a pallet, with each part numbered. The simple way to think of how the chassis gets put together is by thinking of an erector set, just match up the numbers and each piece fits together. There is still some fine tuning that needs to be done, but the tedious task of cutting everything by hand, or with a grinder is gone.

“The technology in theses trucks is nothing different than the trucks we currently use. They will both use the same parts, which will make it easy to carry spares that both trucks can use. The main difference between these trucks and the current trucks is the chassis. These are like our Class 6100 truck, except with a large fuel cell and an extra spare tire,” Montes continued to tell us about the new trucks.

We will continue to follow up with the team as these builds come together, and as they prep for their first race next year. What do you think the team should do with the old trucks? Tell us in the comments below!