Ram recreates 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' with SI Swimsuit models

Ram and Sports Illustrated celebrate freedom by recreating Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in the only way they know how: With swimsuit models and a pickup truck. (The resulting video may not be strictly safe for work, though.)

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America may have been founded on the overthrow of British rule, on revolution against tyranny and the rejection of over-taxation without representation. But these days, you might argue that America is more about things like pickup trucks and swimsuit models. Fortunately you needn’t choose between the founding principles and modern obsessions with this latest promo from Ram.

Sports Illustrated brought together a coven of its finest (and we do mean finest) swimsuit models and set them adrift upon the frozen Delaware River atop a wooden barge with a Ram 1500 pickup towing a row boat, recreating Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting, “Washington Crossing the Delaware.”

And just why did they go through all the trouble? Because freedom, that’s why. (Be forewarned, though, that the video is not strictly safe for work, what with all the scantily clad revolutionaries and what have you.)