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Truck and tractor pulling, also known as power pulling, is a form of a motorsport competition in which antique or modified tractors pull a heavy drag or sled along an 11-meter-wide (35 ft), 100-meter-long (330 ft) track, with the winner being the tractor that pulls the drag the farthest.
The Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League, now known as the Pro Pulling League, (sometimes abbreviated as PPL) is an American professional truck and tractor pulling series sponsored by California-based Lucas Oil featuring Super Modified Tractors as well as Pro Modified Four-Wheel Drive Trucks, Super Modified Two-Wheel Drive Trucks, Pro Stock Tractors, Super Farm Tractors, Super Stock Diesel Trucks ...
From "RWYB Super Modified 4x4s" to Big- and Small-Block High Output, and the equally outlaw-sounding "Street Gas" classes, this event should please those whose dreams of truck tires are, well, big.
TNT Motorsports was a popular promoter of monster truck races, tractor pulls, and occasionally mud racing in the 1980s. TNT was an acronym for “Trucks n Tractors” founded by the late Billy Joe Miles of Owensboro, Kentucky. Events were shown on Powertrax on ESPN, Trucks and Tractor Power on TNN, and the syndicated Tuff Trax. [1]
Popular pullers included Art Arfons, who competed with the "Green Monster" unlimited tractor, David Willoughby, who pulled with his reputable "Back in Time" modified four-wheel-drive truck, Kenneth and Paula Geuin's Black Gold and Oklahoman four-wheel-drive trucks, Allen Gaines, who had an entire fleet of "Orange Blossom Special" truck pullers ...
Empire State Pullers, known to many of its pullers as ESP, is a truck and tractor pulling sanctioning body. It conducts pulls at circuits throughout New York State . ESP began sanctioning events in the Lucas Oil owned Pro Pulling League in 2007.
Art Arfons' father, Tom, was born in Greece and came to the United States at age 14. He settled in Akron, Ohio, where Art was born.Tom died in 1950, at age 52. His mother, Bessie, who was of Cherokee descent, [2] and died in 1983 at age 84.
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