There’s nothing cooler than a steel bodied monster truck. Just this weekend I was watching Return of the Monster Trucks with my sons and reveling in how cool all those old rigs were. No, they did not fly like the new trucks do and they certainly didn’t accelerate and turn like them but they had their own personality. Today’s trucks rely on gimmick bodies and guaranteed wreckage to put the people in the stands. Yes, monster trucks are still an amazingly strong business and yes we had a great time at a show last year but it is not the same. Listening to guys goose big blocks that were poking through the actual steel hoods of their production bodied trucks was really the best. That’s why we’re loving this 1993 Dodge monster ride truck. It is wearing smaller 48″ tires rather than the 66-inchers that are standards issue in the monster truck world and have been forever but it makes the truck a lot easier to cart around and put on a trailer as you’ll see in the photos.
Designed as a ride truck, it has racing seats mounted in the bed where kids and adults can strap in and experience the fun of climbing dirt berms, maybe lumbering over a car or two, and generally feeling like the most powerful thing on four wheels. Dodge pickups were underrepresented in the steel body days. There were a few but Ford and Chevys certainly dominated the makes and models of the 1980s and early 1990s before things got weird with trucks that looked like dogs, superheroes, and nothing in particular. Maybe it is just us but we’re guessing that any child of the 1980s that grew up on monster truck tapes would want in on this thing. All the specs are below.
In the event that someone clicks the “Buy It Now” button, here’s the text of the ad:
Kids going to College it must go…
1993 Dodge Monster Ride Truck 4×4
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