S3, E41 - Speedy Scott Birdsall
The Truck Show Podcast
Truck Famous, LLC.
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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The fastest man in a landscaper's truck, "Speedy" Scott Birdsall, joins the podcast to break down his record-shattering achievement at Bonneville, where he took a '91 Toyota pickup over 250 miles per hour. He covers what worked, what broke, what got fixed, and ultimately what he learned that will help him break his own record again next year. The Truck Show Podcast is produced in partnership with AMSOIL, Kershaw Knives, and OVR Mag.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Truck Show podcast. I'm your host Holman, and I am super excited for this episode's |
| 0:05.4 | interview because we bring back our good friend and friend of the show, Scott Birdsall from |
| 0:10.0 | Chekull's Garage, to discuss his recent record smashing run at Bonneville in the Toyota |
| 0:16.3 | landscaper truck. As usual, he's got some great stories to share, and we'll walk through the |
| 0:21.4 | build that broke the record. So over this past week, I've been driving a Ford Ranger |
| 0:25.9 | XLT 4x4, the 2.7-liter Eco Boost Turbocharged V6, and I also completed my longest drive since |
| 0:33.9 | the accident, so a couple of hours each way, out to our family property. And I also |
| 0:38.3 | got to do a little bit of off-roading out there, albeit very light wheeling to test the ranger, |
| 0:42.7 | and then get up to the ranch on some rougher roads and not push myself too hard, but I felt |
| 0:47.9 | good enough to help my uncle with a few projects, even took the ATV out to the property markers |
| 0:52.2 | to check out the property lines. And overall, I felt great, even the day after. So it's probably the most physical I've been since, well, since I've been home. So as for the Ranger, I'll have my thoughts on that truck in an upcoming episode. And then over this past week, we're super busy. It got together with Mike Rice on a story for OVR. |
| 1:15.5 | So we wanted to take his new Tacoma SR5 4x4 and then do some affordable mods that'll elevate the truck both in looks and capability. |
| 1:17.8 | The idea with the story is it seems like all the magazines, everybody always does |
| 1:21.4 | these wazoo builds. |
| 1:23.1 | So we took this truck, which was like, I think 43,000 MSRP, and we said, what would it take |
| 1:29.2 | to get close to like a TRD off-road package without spending all that money? So we were very |
| 1:34.2 | selective with some products, and we went out and did it, and it's kind of a TRD for the |
| 1:38.6 | pores, if you will. So we'll talk about that in the upcoming episode as well. And lots of great |
| 1:43.8 | truck content and lastly |
| 1:45.7 | rumor has it i might be getting a gladiator for a little while might be joining the driveway fleet |
| 1:50.5 | in the near future so that could be pretty cool too so anyway lots going on crazy week tons of |
| 1:56.8 | progress real busy and also got a pick-up date for when I'll be heading out to Michigan |
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