There’s a saying that goes, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.” But based on this MotorWeek retro video review of the 1991 Ford Explorer, we can’t appreciate what we have now, until we see what we lacked before.

The Ford trucks shown in this video are everything but “little.”

The most experienced off-roading men even get stuck on risky routes just as this noob has in his lifted ‘98 Explorer indicating once again it is good to be prepared on any terrain.

During Bob Lutz’s short stay at Ford’s truck division he forever changed the light-duty 4-door SUV market developing the Explorer to take on Jeep’s popular Cherokee.

This week’s Muddy video is a little longer than usual, but it has a great deal more content than our average muddin’ video.

Ford makes cars, crossovers, vans, trucks, and SUVs. When it comes to the bottom line, it translates all of those into numbers.

It is unusual for a random flyby to be featured on Truckin’ Fast rather than a drag strip run or an actual race of some sort, but for this week’s video, I wanted to give a hat tip to the Explorer community.