If you were a kid in the 1980s and you are now a regular reader of BangShift.com, chances are you were into monster trucks. Those trucks were nothing like the race machines of today, nope, they were slower and far less complex, but we’d argue that they were way cooler.
Guys were using production bodies and the trucks actually stuck to near stock wheelbase measurements so the vehicles really looked like overgrown versions of production machinery. In the video below you’ll see all of the 1980s most famous monster trucks: Big Foot, USA-1, King Kong, Bearfoot, The Grave Digger, and about half a million more.
What started in the early 1980s as creeping over some junk cars evolved by the end of the decade to trucks that were flying through the sky, jumping whole stacks of cars at once. The amazing part of that equation is that the trucks hadn’t changed all that much. These were leaf sprung trucks that rode like cement trucks and managed to bounce and jounce like mad on every landing. The drivers were getting seriously punished.
Later on in the 1990s, full tube chassis and advanced suspensions came out to really bring the trucks onto the next level of refinement, but for a few years in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was pure magic. This video really catches the glory years with great thrills, chills, and even a few spills.
