No More Ford In Bigfoot.....
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No More Ford In Bigfoot.....
after 25 years of sponsorship, Ford drop's Bigfoot cause Chandler refused to run Monster Jam events, Chandler has never much cared for the guys that run in that series as he is the creator of the MTRA (monster truck racers association)......Rumor has it that Chandler has signed with GM......
http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/news07.html#22Dec
http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/news07.html#22Dec
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well many many moons ago, everyone ran together in the USHRA, they would do multiple shows, bigfoots, mud drags, tractor and truck pulling, funny car pulling and everything was great, then Chandler and a few other guys seperated from them cause of differences and formed the MTRA, the USHRA does the racing and the freestyle, more freestyle than anything here lately, MTRA is almost strictly racing though they do some freestyle at Jamboree events.......but if you have ever noticed sometimes there will be 2 different monster truck shows at 2 different arenas in one weekend??? well usually if one series make a appearance, the other one will too to try and get some of the fans to come watch them, i hate to say it but the MTRA guys arent no where near as popular as the USHRA trucks.....
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the owner/driver of the SAMSON monster truck, Dan Patrick used to work for him, Dan is from Circleville Ohio about 35 minutes from where im from, he was the first person to design a monster truck chassis with a CAD program, he also pulled a multi-engined tractor at a young age then moved up to a funny car sled puller called the WARLORD then he built 2 Coors beer sponsored (why he used Coors i dont know cause he lived 10 minutes from a budweiser distribution plant at that time) sled pulling funny cars and pulled them til he bought SAMSON in the late 80's and went to work for Chandler driving Bigfoot and SAMSON, he later started building his own chassis' and is THE top monster truck chassis builder in the world and he is the rules director for the MTRA.....all of that in a single barn in the middle of a cornfield on Rt. 56 north outside Circleville Ohio....
Last edited by LOGANSTANFORTH; 01-06-2008 at 02:25 PM.
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the owner/driver of the SAMSON monster truck, Dan Patrick used to work for him, Dan is from Circleville Ohio about 35 minutes from where im from, he was the first person to design a monster truck chassis with a CAD program, he also pulled a multi-engined tractor at a young age then moved up to a funny car sled puller called the WARLORD then he built 2 Coors beer sponsored (why he used Coors i dont know cause he lived 10 minutes from a budweiser distribution plant at that time) sled pulling funny cars and pulled them til he bought SAMSON in the late 80's and went to work for Chandler driving Bigfoot and SAMSON, he later started building his own chassis' and is THE top monster truck chassis builder in the world and he is the rules director for the MTRA.....all of that in a single barn in the middle of a cornfield on Rt. 56 north outside Circleville Ohio....
Why Coors....simple, they 'offered' to sponsor and Bud refused...