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

 

 

Wow that is huge news. Bigfoot has always been a Ford.

 

wow man, that sucks -- corporate greed vs owner/creator greed...

sucks to see it come to that..

 

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.....

 

I hear ya -- just sucks that traditions like that come to an end.. seems like they are happening everywhere

knight rider being brought back as a Ford product, Bigfoot turning into a chevy... I just hate it when people mess with things like that

 

Say goodbye to an era. I've always loved Bigfoot. Seems like nascar is infecting all of motorsports. It's all about the money.

 

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....

 

I forgot about IRO... I mean NASCAR with that COT crap... thats another example

 

And I thought I watched too much discovery channel....this whole story has been playing all weekend....very interesting!!

Why Coors....simple, they 'offered' to sponsor and Bud refused...