Best of Daytona Truck Week 2017 (Video)

Check out the outrageous Ford trucks (and folks) of Florida’s ‘Truck Week.’

This year’s Daytona truck meet featured no shortage of big, beefy, beautiful Ford trucks. Love them or hate them, the high-gloss, high-polish, high-lift “mall crawlers” were all the rage this year. Surprisingly, even some of them got their chrome wheels dirty with a little sand!

Whether you prefer diesel or gas power for your Ford truck, every trend under the sun was represented. Coal-rolling, Carolina-squatting, ghost-trailering, LED-clad rigs roamed the Daytona streets as far as the eye could see. Judging by the videos, it looked like a week-long pop country music video.

With plenty of white tire smoke accompanied by black diesel smoke going around, it must have appeared to casual onlookers that Daytona had just elected a new pope! Daytona Beach is a beautiful place, filled with beautiful sights and beautiful people, and for one week a year, beautiful trucks, too.

If you prefer bikini-clad beachgoers to burnouts, there’s plenty of that in the video as well. More importantly, we wonder how most of us will look back on these truck trends five, or even 10 years from today.

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Cameron Vanderhorst

Cam VanDerHorst has been a contributor to Internet Brands' Auto Group sites for over three years, with his byline appearing on Ford Truck Enthusiasts, Corvette Forum, JK Forum, and Harley-Davidson Forums, among others. In that time, he's also contributed to Autoweek, The Drive, and Scale Auto Magazine.

He bought his first car at age 14 -- a 1978 Ford Mustang II -- and since then he’s amassed an impressive and diverse collection of cars, trucks, and motorcycles, including a 1996 Ford Mustang SVT Mystic Cobra (#683) and a classic air-cooled Porsche 911.

In addition to writing about cars and wrenching on them in his spare time, he enjoys playing music (drums and ukulele), building model cars, and tending to his chickens.

You can follow Cam, his cars, his bikes, and his chickens at @camvanderhorst on Instagram.

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