Picture an outdoor playground where you could drive at high speeds for hours, yet only see a few other trucks—and maybe a couple camels—while covering more than 5,000 acres of fresh park.
We were at the privately-owned exotic animal Texana Ranch outside of Blackwell, Texas. The weather was just below hot and just above cold, and it was practically raining Raptors. Trey Palreiro had successfully put together the largest gathering of Ford’s most specialized off-road vehicle ever sold to the public. Who is Trey? He was simply a Raptor owner with a dream of making an event where guys like him could get together, share notes, hit some trails, and maybe even do some good over the period of a weekend.
After a lot of research and footwork, Palreiro is the founder of the largest known Ford Raptor owner gathering ever. With some help from family, friends, the Baja Racing Texas crew, and ranch foreman Matt Parks, he was able to set up a successful camp and 43-mile loop where 50 Raptor owners could drive their trucks to (and for some, past) their limits.
Though there were a few bent frames, crushed skidplates, and more money spent than intended (always), it seemed that everyone had a great time and people were already talking about next year’s gathering by Sunday morning.
If you are the proud owner of a Raptor and want to see what totally stock to heavily-modified Raptors can do, then maybe you should think about putting in some seat time and heading into the heart of the Lone Star State for next year’s Texas Raptor Run.
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Trey Palreiro chose the Texana ranch because of its vast acreage and the variety of techni
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The Texas Raptor Run was a chance for a lot Raptor enthusiasts to meet each other and talk
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We can remember only one Raptor going down with some mysterious Raptor electrical glitch.
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We love to see a company that takes its products past the limits of what any customer woul
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A raffle was held to support two veterans organizations, Front Lines to Finish Lines and W
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Four Raptors fueling, one waiting in line, and no other vehicles in sight. Tell us the nex
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But the course was very technical, with a lot of steep approaches and departures. It was e
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Every Raptor that had a stock bumper got frontend damage - every single one. We think this
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The Texas Raptor Run had some great sponsors like Raptor Performance Group, UPR Racing, PC
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If we told you that this was Greg Foutz, the original Raptor racer, desperately trying to
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Like we said: Everything Raptor from stock to highly modified showed up. Rick Ryckman owns
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We told Jared Hare of Addictive Desert Designs that we’d put his Raptor in the magazine if