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Bigfoot five is the biggest
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It's the widest. The heaviest monster truck out there. At 4.7 meters tall and weighing in at 38,000 pounds, Bigfoot 5 really is a true monster
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And it was built by Bob Chandler, who didn't just create this beast
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He invented the whole sport. Bigfoot was the first. I started out with the stock pickup truck
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I wanted to go more places, so a bigger tire. on the truck. Then the next thing you need is stronger drive shafts and axles and things
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Then you don't have power so you put a bigger engine in a truck, right? I started doing exhibition events
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Yeah, that's a challenge. Went to any kind of event I could find
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From mud runs, the hill climbs, to truck and tractor pulls us
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From that point on it was known as Bigfoot. As performances grew wilder, drivers looked for new ways to enter the city
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New ways to entertain the crowds and the car crush was born
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You've guessed it, Bob invented that too. My friend comes me, I got two cars out in the farmer's field
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Let's see if he can drive over it. And a motorist, he says, I want you to do that in front of a crowd
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When we did the first car crash in front of a crowd it just amazed me They just loved it And to me it was something kind of simple The truck just drove over the cars
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The bar was raised at shows. And as the stunts grew bigger, so did the danger levels
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People were getting hurt. I know of three drivers that have broke their backs in these trucks early on
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I was doing a show, and the promoter come up to me, he says, you need to invent something
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You need to do something because this truck would drive right up to seats
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Nothing to stop it. It's going to hurt people bad. We designed a kill switch, we call it
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There's somebody on the sideline to compress a button and stop that truck. That was one of the biggest things that we've ever done from monster trucks
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And for this vehicle, Things were about to get even bigger. We saw this military junkyard and we see a trailer with 10 foot tall tires on it
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And we're looking at that and I said, oh, I want to put them on my truck. These tires are off Alaska land train
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Now sporting one-ton tires, five-ton axles and 16-inch gas cell shocks. Bigfoot 5 became the wild's biggest monster. truck
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I got the best. Nobody else can top it. And the tread on these tires allows for a pretty cool trick
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Jim Kramer, my compadry in this business, he'd get out of the truck, take the tire down as it's
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rolling, and then grab the back of it and pull him all the way up and he'd walk on top that
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tire for a while and then jump back in and finish driving the truck. Still amazed me when it drives down the street
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People just are awed at this thing. It's just a one of a kind
