It's amazing seeing how much monster trucks evolved in the five years between the beginning of the PENDA Points Series here and where it finished being televised in 1996.
There was no better feeling back when I was a kid Then to wake up on Saturday and Sunday mornings and throw on TNN and sit back and watch monster trucks with my dad
Its so cool to see this again. I used to tape all of these shows and watch them over and OVER again. Still have them but the tapes are wore out. I still to this day memorized everything Army and Gary said!! LOL
+Jason1Pa Me too man! Your comments are so on point, except that listening to Army as an adult makes me laugh & cringe at the same time. He's like a senile old man who mixes up random old cliches and puts parts of them together regardless of whatever he's talking about. But at this point, that only increases my enjoyment of the nostalgia!
LOL. Yeah Army had a thing with words and phrases. I loved it! I had the chance to meet him and spent a good amount of time talking to him before a show one time. Real nice guy!! The race was being televised but he didn't know the exact date so he gave me his home phone number and told me to call him in a couple weeks. He jokingly said dont give his number out! LOL
Jason1Pa That sounds just as I would imagine he would be in person. I would say he personifies what people mean when they say, "Bless his heart, he means well."
Sadly, he and Carolina Crusher retired last year. I wish he would compete at the World Finals again in his original truck this year since he did it only once in Spiderman in 2001.
He brought his original truck back last year for the TNT Unfinished Business event which had some of the original TNT competitors. I wish TNT was still racing in the 90's and early 2000's but then again it would have changed history and PENDA along with Monster Jam would have been vastly different.
I was only 3 when this happened but man I miss this stuff. When Monster Jam was bought from USHRA all the competition was sucked from this sport. I love how this older era was teams and drivers not only pushing each others driving but pushing the engineering and development of these machines. Now its all the exact same trucks with different shells. I wish I knew what circuit Bigfoot runs in so I could take my sons to those events instead of Monster Jam.
Monster Jam was never bought. Monster Jam is just the name of the series that runs during the winter. USHRA is the sanctioning body, USHRA has always been around, even if the logos haven't been seen in the last few years.
@@DaltonHastings1 I know this is old. But who runs the summer and fall events of Monster Trucks? Since Monster Jam is mainly in the winter? Because I have seen some other monster truck promotions on youtube that still use the old style racing like here in the video.
You hit the nail square on its head! The monster jam series suck the heart and soul out of this sport! By buying the rights to a lot of the popular monsters trucks like grave digger, maximum destruction and avenger monster trucks. Their are now very few independent monster truck owners and drivers like the Bigfoot and USA 1 camp that has refused to sell in! It has now become a cookie cutter series, that has dozens of monster trucks that are all the same underneath! They switche back and forth between these interchangeable bodies, all depending on what's the flavor of the month. Their is no real competition. What ever character body is most popular at that time, gets pushed for the win. It no different than WWE wrestling!
Had this been the 1991 TNT series I think it would have been a four-way battle for the championship with 1990 TNT Champion Bigfoot and Andy Brass, Bear Foot and Fred Shafer, Taurus and Jack Willman, and Carolina Crusher and Gary Porter. USA-1 would have probably backed out of it early in the season and retired and Equalizer and the return of David Morris would have finished in the Top 5. Not sure where Grave Digger and Dennis Anderson would have landed since they were #4 in 1989 and #9 in 1990. Snake Bite would had good days and bad days like the several wrecks he had in 91 and 92.
lol... Did Everett and Steve really think they had a chance against BF 8? USA-1 couldn't even compete with the 1991 version of #4, let alone #8. I would love to know what was really going on within USA-1 for them to have to bring a 1988 steel-bodied stage 2 truck (with no advancements) to a 1991 event, and arguably this series was the peak of legit MT racing (which is what Everett claimed to have wanted).
Pete, as a huge USA-1 fan from back in the day, I couldnt agree more with you. I just shake my head in embarrassment. I couldnt believe that Everett even bothered showing up. Everett didnt have to build something like #8. Look at Bearfoot/Taurus/Crusher chassis, and I wonder, why didnt he go that route to at least be competitive!! And I really feel for Rod Litzau......having to sit and watch what became of the truck...
Everett was building a third truck as early as '89 but for whatever reason he never finished it and its still sitting in his shop unfinished....feels like a time capsule. Whether it was stubborness or his principles he chose not to change and adapt in the sport. Kinda a head scratcher since what Pete Moss said above about this Penda series being the peak of MT racing, something Everett wanted. I don't get it.
yeah, but looking at his 3rd chassis, I don't see how it would've been competitive. Now Everett did say he bought a Patrick chassis, but then sold it thereafter. Ahh what could have been......
What were the purse payouts at TNT shows vs. Penda shows, also Penda/Special Events ran limited events and Everett was clearly never going to run with USHRA at this point... I wonder what Everett thought about running with a 3-D bodied truck and a driver under a fake name, talk about pro-wrestling on wheels.
You've gotta think about how much more prolific in events the TNT series was than Penda. Penda events had like 5-7 total weekends. This meant that whenever the Stage 2 truck flipped in TNT, it had to repaired before they could have made money in TNT and invested into their Stage 3 chassis. And since TNT was enveloped by USHRA (which Jasmer seemed to dislike), it meant that once TNT dissolved there was no money or competition that they were interested in. Jasmer and USA-1 seemed to both be doomed by the domino effect of monster truck and racing development.
I remember taping these shows every sunday morning and watch them after church.
It's amazing seeing how much monster trucks evolved in the five years between the beginning of the PENDA Points Series here and where it finished being televised in 1996.
That Bigfoot 8 truck was a huge leap forward in technology. So much so that they banned it a year before.
There was no better feeling back when I was a kid Then to wake up on Saturday and Sunday mornings and throw on TNN and sit back and watch monster trucks with my dad
Its so cool to see this again. I used to tape all of these shows and watch them over and OVER again. Still have them but the tapes are wore out. I still to this day memorized everything Army and Gary said!! LOL
+Jason1Pa Me too man! Your comments are so on point, except that listening to Army as an adult makes me laugh & cringe at the same time. He's like a senile old man who mixes up random old cliches and puts parts of them together regardless of whatever he's talking about. But at this point, that only increases my enjoyment of the nostalgia!
LOL. Yeah Army had a thing with words and phrases. I loved it! I had the chance to meet him and spent a good amount of time talking to him before a show one time. Real nice guy!! The race was being televised but he didn't know the exact date so he gave me his home phone number and told me to call him in a couple weeks. He jokingly said dont give his number out! LOL
Jason1Pa That sounds just as I would imagine he would be in person. I would say he personifies what people mean when they say, "Bless his heart, he means well."
+Jason1Pa I had these shows as well long with Espn's Monster Truck Challenge with Jo Lo and Ken Bru. Also I had Monster Wars on Tape.
i have always loved ANDY BRASS .... what hell uva driver .... great days of racing ..
His look and voice was the iconic monster truck driver persona
20:46 Shake Battle and Roll vhs. Monster Trucks, Tractor Pulling and Mud Racing. Return of TNT Motorsports
r.i.p. john moore and wayne somzanak
Was well as Rich Hooser and Marvin Smith
I've met Gary Porter a few times. It's really cool to see Carolina Crusher back.
Sadly, he and Carolina Crusher retired last year. I wish he would compete at the World Finals again in his original truck this year since he did it only once in Spiderman in 2001.
He brought his original truck back last year for the TNT Unfinished Business event which had some of the original TNT competitors. I wish TNT was still racing in the 90's and early 2000's but then again it would have changed history and PENDA along with Monster Jam would have been vastly different.
One of my favorite races to watch thanks for uploading this !!
I was only 3 when this happened but man I miss this stuff. When Monster Jam was bought from USHRA all the competition was sucked from this sport. I love how this older era was teams and drivers not only pushing each others driving but pushing the engineering and development of these machines. Now its all the exact same trucks with different shells. I wish I knew what circuit Bigfoot runs in so I could take my sons to those events instead of Monster Jam.
Monster Jam was never bought. Monster Jam is just the name of the series that runs during the winter. USHRA is the sanctioning body, USHRA has always been around, even if the logos haven't been seen in the last few years.
@@DaltonHastings1 I know this is old. But who runs the summer and fall events of Monster Trucks? Since Monster Jam is mainly in the winter? Because I have seen some other monster truck promotions on youtube that still use the old style racing like here in the video.
@@FallenAngel-mq4yp Different promotions. Throwdown, Renege Monster Truck Series, there's events everywhere after the winter.
You hit the nail square on its head! The monster jam series suck the heart and soul out of this sport! By buying the rights to a lot of the popular monsters trucks like grave digger, maximum destruction and avenger monster trucks. Their are now very few independent monster truck owners and drivers like the Bigfoot and USA 1 camp that has refused to sell in! It has now become a cookie cutter series, that has dozens of monster trucks that are all the same underneath! They switche back and forth between these interchangeable bodies, all depending on what's the flavor of the month. Their is no real competition. What ever character body is most popular at that time, gets pushed for the win. It no different than WWE wrestling!
This is the closest thing to the TNT Motorsports version (and the best) of Monster Truck racing.
Also Colt Cobra was Bigfoot driver
Gene Patterson.....
Yep, quite a few of the Bigfoot drivers were behind the mask.
That made me so mad when I first found out. I hated Bigfoot.
Had this been the 1991 TNT series I think it would have been a four-way battle for the championship with 1990 TNT Champion Bigfoot and Andy Brass, Bear Foot and Fred Shafer, Taurus and Jack Willman, and Carolina Crusher and Gary Porter. USA-1 would have probably backed out of it early in the season and retired and Equalizer and the return of David Morris would have finished in the Top 5. Not sure where Grave Digger and Dennis Anderson would have landed since they were #4 in 1989 and #9 in 1990. Snake Bite would had good days and bad days like the several wrecks he had in 91 and 92.
Lol, Wilke never seen him? Because Foot was so far gone it was just a blue dot.
lol... Did Everett and Steve really think they had a chance against BF 8? USA-1 couldn't even compete with the 1991 version of #4, let alone #8. I would love to know what was really going on within USA-1 for them to have to bring a 1988 steel-bodied stage 2 truck (with no advancements) to a 1991 event, and arguably this series was the peak of legit MT racing (which is what Everett claimed to have wanted).
Pete, as a huge USA-1 fan from back in the day, I couldnt agree more with you. I just shake my head in embarrassment. I couldnt believe that Everett even bothered showing up. Everett didnt have to build something like #8. Look at Bearfoot/Taurus/Crusher chassis, and I wonder, why didnt he go that route to at least be competitive!! And I really feel for Rod Litzau......having to sit and watch what became of the truck...
Everett was building a third truck as early as '89 but for whatever reason he never finished it and its still sitting in his shop unfinished....feels like a time capsule. Whether it was stubborness or his principles he chose not to change and adapt in the sport. Kinda a head scratcher since what Pete Moss said above about this Penda series being the peak of MT racing, something Everett wanted. I don't get it.
yeah, but looking at his 3rd chassis, I don't see how it would've been competitive. Now Everett did say he bought a Patrick chassis, but then sold it thereafter. Ahh what could have been......
What were the purse payouts at TNT shows vs. Penda shows, also Penda/Special Events ran limited events and Everett was clearly never going to run with USHRA at this point... I wonder what Everett thought about running with a 3-D bodied truck and a driver under a fake name, talk about pro-wrestling on wheels.
You've gotta think about how much more prolific in events the TNT series was than Penda. Penda events had like 5-7 total weekends. This meant that whenever the Stage 2 truck flipped in TNT, it had to repaired before they could have made money in TNT and invested into their Stage 3 chassis. And since TNT was enveloped by USHRA (which Jasmer seemed to dislike), it meant that once TNT dissolved there was no money or competition that they were interested in. Jasmer and USA-1 seemed to both be doomed by the domino effect of monster truck and racing development.
Scott Stephens son drives Doom's Day
Lol the only time wilke was with brass was right on the starting line!
Bear Foot had something for Big foot this race imo and Taurus may have
Snake Bite is just another Big Foot truck folks.
I knew that once I first seen Snakebite.
So good that Bigfoot and Hot Wheels did the idea for Snakebite.
I think most adults got it. The whole Snakebite/Colt Cobra thing was just a gag for the kids.
who won in minnesota in 1992 grave digger or Bigfoot 8
Usa 1 was 3 year s old truck that truck was created in 1988 usa 1 2