Forbes Magazine had the brilliant idea to try and enter a HUMMER H2 in a classic car hill-climbing contest. For some reason, the organizers of the vintage auto group allowed the modern 316-hp beast of a truck to compete against a 100-hp 1921 Ford Model T (in black, natch), driven by a 70-year old man, in a race to the top of a 475-foot hill.

I’ll save you the remaining suspense: the Model T won.

Yes, the 86-year-old Ford was, apparently, better equipped to deal with a big hill than the supposed modern destroyer of hills, a HUMMER. Not only that, but the Model T beat the H2 by about 0.8 seconds, a decent margin in the auto racing world (the HUMMER took about 10.74 seconds, the Model T just 9.96 seconds). The Model T was somewhat improved from its stock configuration (which was only 20 horsepower), but it was all using 1920s and -30s period parts — stuff from the original service era of the car. Of course, the economies of power-to-weight ratios immediately spring to mind as a way to explain away this victory of the classic over a modern monstrosity, but in my opinion that doesn’t make it any less cool…I mean, a Model T beat a HUMMER! In a race! And I bet it got better gas mileage doing it.

The HUMMER owners were, naturally, sore losers, saying they would only need another 1,000 feet to win the race (how much dignity must you not have to actually be making excuses for why your $50k+ SUV lost to a wagon with an engine from before the Great Depression?) and that the H2 was like an airplane to the Model T’s mule. However, I’ll remind you that mules can kick. Hard.

Original story on Forbes.com