Jan 2013
Fred Williams up fits and outfits one of the coolest 4x4s on the market today, the Ford Raptor. Raptors are high performance desert machines, but we found one that earns its owner a living each week banging around on an obscure desert compound. The owner is hard on his equipment and we took this poor bird of prey under our wing for a week to transform it into a more vicious desert predator.
Apr 2013
When the crew from Petersen's 4-Wheel and Off-Road buy low buck 4x4's and pit them against each other in the Arizona desert, it can only be one thing - Cheap Truck Challenge. Watch as Rick Pewe and his 1989 Jeep Cherokee, Harry Wagner and his 1978 Ford F-150, and host Fred Williams and his 1993 Toyota Landcruiser battle the budget ($4000 total bought and built) and each other to see who's beater 4-wheeler can survive rock crawling, hill climbing and the mud bog obstacle course.
May 2013
The Moab Easter Jeep Safari is a great week long 4x4 event in Moab, Utah leading up to Easter weekend every year, and every year Fred and the staff of 4-Wheel and Off-Road attend for some great rock crawling. This year Fred and some of his cronies grew out their upper lips and ran the first ever Moab Midnight Mustache Ride at Area BFE, a private off-road park south of Moab. They loaded up their jeeps and wheeled from midnight to dawn over some of the best rock crawling in the west.
May 2013
Fred Williams takes to the mountains of Mammoth in his 1965 Dodge M37 to try some snow wheeling away from the busy city. While in Mammoth, Fred meets up with his friend Shane and agrees to take him to the coast at Big Sur to go surfing. Along the way Fred decides to take Shane 4-wheeling in Hollister and even lets him drive "The Dumpster". Fred ends his journey on the towering sand dunes of Pismo Beach.
Jun 2013
Fred Williams heads to Fort Hunter Liggett to meet up with fireman Ken Hanna. Ken's ride is a 2011 Oshkosh Striker 3000 military fire truck, used primarily to put out aircraft fires. Fred rides along to see how the water cannon works and even does a 0-60 run before watching this giant rescue vehicle do what it was built for - driving off-road.