ThePollitt
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Sept 25, 2008 14:22:47 GMT
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Here's an unexplored faucet of retro, the monster trucks from the 80's. Y'know, when they were slow and cumbersome and they really did flatten cars and they could only achieve 3ft of air as they weighed so damn much.
I like em, so here's a vid. Enjoy.
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Stu_B
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Investing in rust!
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Sept 25, 2008 14:40:01 GMT
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Ether
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Sept 25, 2008 14:57:29 GMT
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Ether
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Sept 25, 2008 14:58:36 GMT
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427
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Praise The Lowered
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Sept 25, 2008 15:02:37 GMT
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I've got a VHS tape of the story of bigfoot. i dig it out ever so often to keep it from falling apart. back when the bodys were from real cars and the motor was up front.
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Retro...monster trucks?Robinxr4i
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Sept 25, 2008 15:18:31 GMT
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Great pic Matt, gotta love a good mullet  This looks like a truck cab with an SUV body stuck on top? |
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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Stu_B
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Sept 25, 2008 15:20:35 GMT
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Sept 25, 2008 16:12:36 GMT
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Though I started my love for them in the 80s, they were nothing then in comparison to now, pre-crushed cars, having to slow down a bit before hitting them. one run then breaking (though they still break a lot now too) plus none of them could do this
Give it a sec to load
Nor could they do this
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Sept 25, 2008 16:22:31 GMT
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great vid n pics,back when there was no tube chassis,no cages and no rear steer and bigfoot was king!! ..legend
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Sept 25, 2008 16:26:08 GMT
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I still think it's messed up that there was a falling out between Big Foot and the NHRA so we don't get to see them race as much. I'd very much like to see them race Grave Digger.
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Samage
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Sept 25, 2008 16:28:38 GMT
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Here's an unexplored faucet of retro, the monster trucks from the 80's. Y'know, when they were slow and cumbersome and they really did flatten cars and they could only achieve 3ft of air as they weighed so damn much. I like em, so here's a vid. Enjoy. Love that video! Especially the tank-tracked ones! Here's some more. ;D Note: do not adjust your monitors, one of them really is modelled after a steam locomotive! Mental!  |
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Last Edit: Sept 25, 2008 16:31:44 GMT by Samage
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jaswh
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Sept 25, 2008 16:35:18 GMT
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oldskool british bigfoot   |
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fpk
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Sept 25, 2008 17:32:41 GMT
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wow i forgot how ace oldskool monster trucks were! i really wanted a remote controll lunch box, but got the little bigfoot with the controls on the back . i loved them !
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ThePollitt
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Fix up, look... at that car on eBay!
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Sept 25, 2008 17:56:58 GMT
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!!
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Sept 25, 2008 18:23:45 GMT
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old skool monster trucks rule!!!
gravedigger has always been my fav, can any one find pics of it when it was green??? before all the side painting started? i cant id love to see the proper ones again
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Sept 25, 2008 18:49:51 GMT
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I remember seeing the carolina crusher back in 92/93 when I was 5 or 6 in between races at a banger race down in Sussex and then getting a poster signed by the driver. I was chuffed. Spent weeks pestering my dad to turn his saab 900 turbo into a monster truck. He never did though...
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stealthstylz
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Retro...monster trucks?stealthstylz
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Sept 25, 2008 18:51:55 GMT
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Me and a mate watched a few old monster truck vids the other week, some awesome stuff on there. Rollin' Thunder has always been the coolest.
As a spectacle I prefer the modern ones, they don't look as good though.
Matt
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Rob
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You know, for kids!
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Sept 25, 2008 18:57:48 GMT
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I saw this thread and thought nah... But it brought back good memories ! Remember this ?  I still have this at my Mum's...  |
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Joe T
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Sept 25, 2008 19:15:05 GMT
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Cracking thread!
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Ratchet
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The user formerly known as Thomas
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Sept 25, 2008 20:19:20 GMT
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I saw this thread and thought nah... But it brought back good memories ! Remember this ? I still have this at my Mum's... I got one of those for Christmas when i was a kid ;D, I think its still in the shed too, had a matchbox car of the rolling thunder van as well. I've still got a old tape of monster trucks that my mum recorded off TV in the eighties for me when i was about 5 |
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