World Record Pickup Truck Parade at Indy
Posted by Mark Williams | August 1, 2013
Do you live anywhere near Indianapolis? Are you without any big plans this weekend? And would you like to be apart of history in the making? Then you're in luck.
In honor of a new SiriusXM channel called Rural Radio (Channel 80), the promoters are sponsoring a huge day of trucks and tractors at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with music, displays, games, track access and plenty of other summer fun. It will conclude with an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for a parade of pickup trucks around the track. We'll have an update to report on whether they succeeded or not.
For details about the event, click here to download the PDF flyer.
10 Fast Facts About the World’s Largest Parade of Pickup Trucks
- The current Guinness World Record for the Largest Parade of Pickup Trucks is 273, set on Aug. 25, 2012, on the Dresden Raceway in Ontario, Canada.
- The parade route must be a minimum of two miles, per Guinness requirements.
- Each pickup truck must be registered by make, model and year and must have met the requirements for a pickup truck: “a vehicle based on a chassis with an open top, rear cargo area, commonly known as a bed."
- Pickup trucks will proceed around the track at no more than 5 mph.
- All participants are welcome to decorate their pickup truck in honor of their town, an RFD-TV program, the National FFA, 4-H or other agricultural, equine or western sports interest.
- There will be 240 antique/classic tractors on display throughout the day.
- The RFD-TV series “Talkin' Tractors” will film the tractor displays.
- RFD-TV and Rural Radio will broadcast the day's events live.
- In August 2012, RFD-TV held the World’s Largest Parade of Antique Tractors and broke the record with 964 tractors (previous record was set in Elbach, Germany, with 745).
Comments
Damn,I wish I could go and do that.That will be so cool to do...sigh.
Sounds like a bunch wierdos with way to much time on their hands.
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@Mark Williams
They have "Ute Musters" in Australia where thousands of Utes meet to break attendance records they do not do side by side parades but a lot of other activities.
Participants do a lot charities for local communities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_muster
Ordered 2 videos they were both the same of the truck parade.
I sent for 2 thought one was for something else, not tractors.
let me know as didn!t want 2 of the same.
Was there something else videoed.
Thanks,
Jerry Yarrington
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