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Back in the late seventies, early eighties, a number of pickup enthusiasts liked the idea of making their pickups bigger & better. A man named Bob Chandler, who had stuck some large tires on his Ford F250 pick-up truck, decided to drive over a couple of junk cars in a field, to promote his 4x4 shop. A few months later after being noticed, he did it again, but this time it was at a stadium in front of a crowd. The Monster Truck phenomenon was born. As the word spread so did the curiosity, and many more Monster Trucks were being made across the USA.
As popularity advanced so did the modifications. Drivers began looking for ways to create bigger and better trucks. In 1990’s, while racing was still a dominant way to show off, freestyle events were added to the menu. This allowed drivers to do something out of the ordinary and attracted more and more viewers.
A jump in twenty years sees the Monster Trucks of today, the motorised version of professional wrestling bringing you collisions, leaping, crashing and crushing
Monster Truck tours are now the second largest form of touring family entertainment shows in the world today.
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