Molalla, Oregon is the spot where this video was captured about 30 years ago and it’s a pretty neat watch if you are a fan of monster trucks from the 1980s and early 1990s. The video shows a couple of the trucks that the prolific Mike Welch put together back in the day. We can see his well known Super Pete big rig in the background but that isn’t really the star of the show here. First you’ll see a mini-van bodied tank attacking the cars and doing some free style stuff and while that is OK, it isn’t the star either.
The thing that stopped us in our tracks….oh boy do we crack ourselves up….was the Super Trax 1957 Peterbilt bodied tank. It looks like something out of a video game because the chassis/tank that the body is sitting on is really small and it looks so weird because all there is to see is a cab and a set of tracks. The truck is capable as Welch gets some air, rips some donuts, and makes a relatively quick appearance with the thing. The stacks and roof mounted air horns are a nice touch.
Information on this guy is very lacking and we don’t know what tank chassis the cab is on or what engine has been swapped in to power it. If we had to guess it would be a big block but that’s just a blind shot in the dark. In the middle 1990s things started rapidly changing in the monster truck world and even before that these tank based creations were phased out for stuff that “looked right”. We’re hoping that the Super Trax truck lives on somewhere because it’s so freaky you can’t help but to love it.
Our inner 10 year old wants to grab the control sticks and hammer some cars with that bad boy!
