Tom Franks, owner of Colorado Sand Cars, has been building sand cars since 1999. He became a Tatum dealer in 2000 and has built several sand cars from long travel, mini rails to 4 seat rails. A few years back Tom decided to make a sand truck. He is a small family run shop and does not want to be the biggest car builder out there, just concentrate on high quality and service. We met up with Tom at the Gordons Well area of the Imperial Sand Dunes over the New Years holiday and had a closer look at his sand trucks.

Some of his truck features are: 100% chromoly chassis and suspension components, a-arm front suspension and trailing arm rear suspension, 4L60E auto transmission, engine of your choice (usually an LS1 or LS2), limited slip Ford 9” rear end, Fox Shox (coil-over and bypass), and either a Chevy or Ford fiberglass body.

Under the hood. Notice the chain steering!	The bed of the truck.

      The Colorado Sand trucks weigh in at around 2800 pounds and have 26” of front wheel travel with 28” in the rear. They come in a 3-seat configuration with the rear seat sitting in the center of the truck. You can order a basic kit up to a full turnkey truck. Prices range from $14,500 up to $65,000 with 4 different level packages to suite the customer.

       While strapping into the passenger seat, we first noticed how roomy it is in the cab. Plenty of room, just like a full sized truck. The built LS1 motor roared to life and we hit the dunes. Heading out to the larger dunes, we first hit a nice section of deep whoops. What whoops!? This truck soaked up the whoops at full throttle like nothing. It felt like we were at top speed on a smooth highway! Once in the dunes the truck handled great. High speed turns and big jumps were no problem for this sand truck. The auto transmission seemed like a nice feature since there is no shifting involved. It put the power to the ground in a big hurry!

          Overall we were impressed with the Colorado Sand truck. It’s nice to see a new design to hit the sand car market. We stopped to take a few photos of Tom’s truck along with one of his customers, Joey Sargent (all white) with a built LS1 motored Sand truck.

www.coloradosandcars.com
633 Weld County Road 60
Windsor, CO 80550
970-674-9967