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History
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In the late 1970s, modified pickup trucks were becoming increasingly popular sport of truck pulling and mud bogging down gaining popularity. Several truck owners had created lifted trucks to participate in such events, and soon the competition for the title of "biggest truck" developed. The truck has won the most national attention were Bob Chandler's Bigfoot, Fred Shafer and Jack Willman Sr. 's Bear Foot, and Jeff Dane's King Kong. At the time, the largest tires the trucks were running were 48 inches in diameter.
On June 14, 1974, Bob Chandler drove over cars in a field doing what is often regarded as the first monster truck to crush cars. Chandler drove Bigfoot over a pair of cars in an area as a test of the ability of the truck, and filmed for use as a tool for promoting its four-wheel drive performance shop. A sponsor of the event saw the video of the car and crush asked Chandler to do it in front of a crowd. Initially hesitant, Chandler finally gave in. After a few smaller shows, Chandler performed the feat in the Pontiac Silverdome in 1982. At this show, Chandler also debuted a new version of Bigfoot with 66 inch (1.7 m) diameter tires. At an event earlier in the early 80s when BIGFOOT were still running 48 tires Deep Bob George, one of the owners of a promotion company named Truck of motorsports-A-Rama says to have invented the truck of the term "monster" to describe Bigfoot. The word monster truck "became a generic name for all trucks with oversized tires earth.
Discussion of the stampede that is the first car is often discussed. During the late 1970s and early 1980s said that King Kong had a car crash at Great Lakes Dragway in Union Grove, Wisconsin. Another truck, known as High Roller, has also been documented as a car crushes Washington State before its never Bigfoot. Arizona tractor truck mud tired Cyclops, then owned by the Brothers Dykman, is too well known to crush the cars that burn before Bigfoot.
King Kong, Spot Horn of action, each followed by Bear Foot Bigfoot 66 inch diameter tires, and soon other monster trucks, such as King Krunch, USA-1, and Virginia Giant were being construction. These trucks were built at the beginning of the frame out of stock that have been heavily reinforced, used leaf spring suspension, a body of stock, and heavy military axles to support the tires. Accordingly, the trucks were incredibly heavy (usually 13,000 to 20,000 lbs) and mostly had to crawl up on the cars.
For most of the 1980s, monster trucks performed primarily exhibits show the face of a truck pulling or mud bogging down events. In 1985, the main promoters, such as the USHRA TNT Motorsports, began racing monster trucks on a regular basis. The races, like today, were in the form of single elimination drag races, held on a course littered with obstacles. The change of the race eventually led truck owners to begin building lighter trucks, with more power. The introduction of the TNT truck monster first championship points in 1988 accelerated the process and found teams beginning to use straight-rail frames, the fiberglass bodies, and lighter axle components to shave weight and gain speed.
In 1988, to standardize rules for truck and construction safety, Bob Chandler, Braden, and George Carpenter formed the Monster Truck Racing Association (mtra). The mtra created rules to govern safety standard monster trucks. The organization still plays a major role in the development of the sport in the U.S. and the EU.
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With the race taking precedence, several teams began to think in new ways how the trucks could be built. Towards the end of 1988, Gary Cook and David Morris made his debut equalizer, a truck with a combination of coil springs and shock absorbers as the main source of suspension rather than the standard leaf springs and shock absorbers. In 1989, Jack.