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Posted: 1/4/2021 8:06:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Though I posted a video of Free style, I always very much preferred the side by side "drag" racing of Monster trucks. Along the track there would be two or three sets of cars to crush. One of my favorite memories is watching it on TV with my dad. Or when I got really lucky and we watched it happen live once. Monster Trucks is one of those super American things, like Apple Pie, Baseball and such. Same here... Saturday afternoons on TNN 
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Posted: 1/4/2021 8:09:52 PM EDT
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As a young guy, I thought, damn, that looks fun. As an old guy, I think...their backs must really hurt. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 8:45:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Though I posted a video of Free style, I always very much preferred the side by side "drag" racing of Monster trucks. Along the track there would be two or three sets of cars to crush. One of my favorite memories is watching it on TV with my dad. Or when I got really lucky and we watched it happen live once. Monster Trucks is one of those super American things, like Apple Pie, Baseball and such. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 8:57:57 PM EDT
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I’m really looking forward to taking my son to his first Monster Jam show.
He loves playing with the die cast trucks. He naturally has Son of a Digger first, and Maximum Destruction second. I was always a Bigfoot fan growing up. Something about a jacked up truck that looked similar in body style to the trucks on the road! |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 9:07:06 PM EDT
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Many years ago I had a summer job in Iowa. I was at work installing a microwave communication tower
on the roof of a High School. I saw a semi drive by with 4 huge wheel/tire assemblies on a trailer and a couple minutes later another with the original real big Bigfoot on it. Was neat experience for a 15 year old. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 9:17:48 PM EDT
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Cool and all but the ownership is a bunch of bitches. When was the last time you saw Bigfoot televised? 1998
Bigfoot ceased running events for the Monster Jam series in 1998 due to a dispute over involving licensing of video footage and pictures, and has not returned since. On the other hand grave digger and MAX-D are definitely the best out there in the last 15-20 years forsure Tom Meents and Dennis Anderson are 2 of the best hands down. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 9:19:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryWow that brings back memories I built a model of that truck when I was probably 7-8 |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 10:07:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How the hell is @67Firebird not in here yet? Quote HistoryQuoted: How the hell is @67Firebird not in here yet? Thank you! I was hanging out with some shooting buddies, and just got home. Quoted: Cool and all but the ownership is a bunch of bitches. When was the last time you saw Bigfoot televised? 1998 Last year, in the Hot Wheels series. 
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Posted: 1/4/2021 10:13:38 PM EDT
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Always thought Bigfoot heritage was cool, but when it was time to watch them run it was all about Grave Digger for me!
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Posted: 1/4/2021 10:14:03 PM EDT
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Also, OPNI.
 A few pics; #2, back in the 80s;  #5 (and the original cab of #4), in 2016;   #14 did a wheelie at an open house, and messed up the tailgate. I bought that tailgate, and the roof from #20;    2012, #1 and Jim Kramer  #16, and Larry Swim  |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 10:15:57 PM EDT
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I've sat in most of them
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Posted: 1/4/2021 10:16:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI used to make about a hundred a night on Friday and Saturday. Had their own separate oven and make table. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 10:18:59 PM EDT
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BigFoot
USA 1 Michigan Ice Monster Grave Digger |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 10:20:59 PM EDT
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They built that thing just down the road from where I grew up. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 10:34:07 PM EDT
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When I was in junior high, a guy that lived in my neighborhood owned a legit monster truck called “Bearly Tame”. He had a buddy that lived a little more out in the country a few miles down the road, and they crushed cars on that guy’s property. If I remember correctly, I think the owner was killed in some kind of accident involving the truck. Not crash-related, more like something happened while he was working on it in the shop. Something exploded, or fell on him or something more like that. This was 30+ years ago, so details are a little fuzzy. The truck was awesome though.
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Posted: 1/5/2021 12:17:49 AM EDT
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2010 in St. Louis. I don't remember which truck it is.
 Bigfoot at Chaifetz Arena 10-16-2010 - Entering Floor |
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Posted: 1/5/2021 12:23:18 AM EDT
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2000, near St. Louis, #10.
 Bigfoot at Cavalier Ford 3-1-2000 |
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Posted: 1/5/2021 12:23:50 AM EDT
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Robosaurus was the most monster of them all...
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Posted: 1/5/2021 12:25:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How the hell is @67Firebird not in here yet?
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Posted: 1/5/2021 12:47:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My thoughts exactly Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: How the hell is @67Firebird not in here yet?  Martini Butt and our son, with Bigfoot #10.  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/5/2021 12:51:01 AM EDT
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2009, Bigfoot #1 at Eureka Walmart;
 Bigfoot 12-5-09 Eureka, MO Walmart |
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Posted: 1/5/2021 12:55:12 AM EDT
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Bigfoot 1 with the 640 inch Alan Root engine forever changed me when I was little...
Bigfoot, USA 1, Godzilla, Grave Digger, so many more. I went to a lot of indoor mud races/monster truck shows growing up. Took my son to a Monster Jam event local to us, and it just wasn't the same. Felt so very very scripted. My first truck was a '78 F150 (1986). Man I miss those days... Back in the early '90s while I was a student at the University of Illinois, Hall Brothers Racing (local in Champaign) brought in one of their trucks to do a meet and greet at a club meeting we had dealing with entrepreneurs. I worked in the lab where the truck was set up, and helped change the 66" tires back to the transport tires as I was the only one present who was allowed to run the department forklift. We got in trouble for revving the blown engine in the big lab, as they were giving an exam in another part of the building that night, and apparently we were disrupting them...
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Posted: 1/5/2021 1:00:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I went to a lot of indoor mud races/monster truck shows growing up. Me too.  |
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Posted: 1/5/2021 1:02:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As a young guy, I thought, damn, that looks fun. As an old guy, I think...their backs must really hurt. you aren't kidding. After growing up and watching it now... I can see that it would fuck the driver up. Gotta wonder if some of those guys got a couple inches shorter after some of those jumps. 
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Posted: 1/5/2021 8:52:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Martini Butt and our son, with Bigfoot #10. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/Bigfoot_10_at_SoCo__5__jpg-1764710.JPG 
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:18:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: She was a special woman. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Martini Butt and our son, with Bigfoot #10.https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/51036/Bigfoot_10_at_SoCo__5__jpg-1764710.JPG Thank you. I appreciate that.  A friend of mine stopped by the display at Pacific City hall yesterday;  Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:29:02 AM EDT
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My son and I were always partial to "Zombie" with the big ass arms.
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Posted: 1/6/2021 1:20:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My son and I were always partial to "Zombie" with the big ass arms. Here's a few short videos that I took in 2016.  2016-12-03 Monster Jam  2016 12 03 Monster Jam Zombie Freestyle 1  2016 12 03 Monster Jam Zombie Freestyle 2 |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 2:02:12 AM EDT
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I had a VHS tape about Bigfoot that I nearly wore out watching as a kid. Though, I was more of a Carolina Crusher fan.
I also always enjoyed seeing the tracked "trucks", Virginia Beach Beast and Gator.  The Virginia Beach Beast Collection |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 2:40:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Saw one of the early Bigfoot monster trucks in Anaheim Stadium mud bogs back in 84. It was a good day to drink beer and watch rigs get stuck in the mud. I saw Bigfoot at the same stadium around that same time. I've got a photo album somewhere around here with pics I took at the event using my dad's 35mm Cannon. Got a good one of Bigfoot mid-air. My 10 year old self thought the jet powered dragster that turned into a giant robot was the coolest thing ever! |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 2:42:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was always partial to Grave Digger as a kid thsi guy gets it |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 10:59:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I saw Bigfoot at the same stadium around that same time. I've got a photo album somewhere around here with pics I took at the event using my dad's 35mm Cannon. Got a good one of Bigfoot mid-air. Here's a few pics that my brother took of Bigfoot #4, in the St. Louis Arena. He had a Canon AE1.    |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:03:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was always partial to Grave Digger as a kid Dennis' mother was my bus driver as a kid. they also lived about 3 miles from me. It was fun watching him build that machine.
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:09:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: thsi guy gets it Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I was always partial to Grave Digger as a kid Not as good as Bigfoot, but I dig it.   A couple videos I took in January 2020;  2020-1-18 Monster Jam St. Louis, MO Grave Digger winning Free Style  2020-1-18 Monster Jam St. Louis, MO Grave Digger My late wife;    Her favorite was Tom Meents/Max-D  |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:12:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Original Bigfoot was better than all the clown show shit afterwards. https://www.history.com/.image/t_share/MTU3ODc4NjgzNTEwMDU2Njcx/image-placeholder-title.jpg  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:17:52 AM EDT
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You're talking about the truck that literally invented the genre.
It had (no shit) Nevah Been Done Befoe. From the funky sourced tires to the shoestring budget the owner (Chandler?) was on it was a ground breaker. It was a case of "I built it, now what?". Car show circuit, drive over a car , get my check, move on. Remember this was 40-45 years ago! |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:25:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryHere's that engine in 2010, before the rebuild.  Too bad they had to take it back out, due to overheating and stuff. |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:27:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was always partial to Grave Digger as a kid 
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:39:38 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:42:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:49:51 AM EDT
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Shockwave, Grave Digger, that giant robotic t rex.. good freaking memories there.
Thanks op. |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:56:10 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:58:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:58:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:00:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:03:17 PM EDT
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I was a cameraman for a monster truck show in OKC back in the early 90s ...I was standing next to Bigfoot trying to get a shot of the driver before the start. I had the hold the heavy camera in the palm of my hand extended all the way up with the viewfinder pointed straight down at me (shitty shot) The damn thing was so loud when it took off it felt like my skull was vibrating.
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:07:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:13:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:15:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:20:53 PM EDT
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My son has 3 or 4 Grave Digger toys. 0 Big Foot.
Megalodon would be his second favorite.  Best of Megalodon Monster Truck: Two Wheel Skills (Ep 1) |
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