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Five tons of suburban id that exists purely to flatten a Honda Civic for applause.
means A pickup truck modified with enormous oversized tires and heavy-duty suspension, built to crush cars and perform stunts at motorsport exhibitions.
from A straightforward American compound joining 'monster' — from Latin 'monstrum,' an omen or prodigy that one is meant to gawk at — with 'truck,' itself probably from Latin 'trochus,' a wheel or hoop, via Greek 'trokhos.' The vehicle and its name both emerged in the late 1970s and early '80s in the United States, when builders started fitting trucks with absurdly large tires; the most famous early example, Bob Chandler's 'Bigfoot,' is widely credited with popularizing both the machine and the genre.
- tire size
- Stand 66 inches tall, taller than a fridge
- origin
- Bigfoot crushed two cars in a 1981 field
- weight
- Around 10,000 pounds of pure overcompensation
- fuel
- Gulps methanol, drains the tank in minutes
- backflips
- Twelve-thousand-pound trucks now do them on purpose
grave digger — dennis anderson's truck that has won over 140 monster truck racing championships since 1982
maximum destruction — tom meents' truck that set the monster truck long jump world record at 202 feet in 2014
bigfoot — bob chandler's original truck created in 1974 that pioneered the monster truck phenomenon