EJ POTTER 👍👍

Fire suit and helmet, what’s that 😂

Those early pulling years were insane, no roll cage, no helmets, no fire suits, no scatter blankets, hauling up and down the highway with overloaded trailers and underpowered tow rigs made out of old school buses, just fun.

Sometime in 1979 - 1980 I followed my older brother Jim from Newark Delaware up into Pennsylvania to attend a small-town Tractor Pull event. We drove twisty narrow back roads the whole way with me in my '74 VW Beetle trying to keep up with Jim in his '66 Pontiac GP 389 with triple carbs. Somehow I made it to the event, which was very likely the same track shown in this video. It was truly wild watching those insane machines. I'll never forget the one with a massive12-cyl Allison aircraft engine that hung it's front wheels in the air right in front of my seat at the finish line, engine screaming, driving wheels digging up the ground. When the driver cut the throttle, the front of the tractor came bouncing back to the ground, and FIRE rose up out of the 12 straight pipe headers to a height of about 25 ft, and I felt like a piece of bread in a toaster for a few seconds. Got the adrenaline pumping I tell ya!

thats bad to bad the truck that started it all

The balls on that cameraman on the ground are HUGE

Wow that master of disaster run was incredible

The first pulling truck willy makit is still pulling today in 2025

Never knew there was a day 2 that aired. Thank you for uploading.

You don’t happen to have 1986 do you?

epic

In our opinion, this was the peak of the sport with an invitational to all the best around the country. Fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

Did the TNT, USHRAdrivers get paid for wins/finish position, or were they paid an appearance fee...just curious.

Thank You to whoever shared this video!!! If anyone else has any of these classics it would be great to see them.❤😊 Thanks!!!

Brings back great memories❤ N.C. T.P.A legends Noble Hinshaw - Donnie and Ronnie Thomas ,Tim Black, and also Eaton brothers from VA

The good old days. 70 ft world record jump, I can piss further then that. I prefer the old-school trucks. My first show live was in 89 in Oakland

37:14 seatbelt malfunction

I still think USA-1 beat Grave Digger.

This was a truly competitive series. Awesome.

USA-1 was awesome in this race.

Watching USA-1 vs Bigfoot, one can clearly see that Bigfoot 8 was a totally new design compared to the USA-1. It was literally two different classes of trucks competing.

God I love this video and bring back some great memories but also makes me feel old but Mike Holden Dusty Diamond I know him those Allison's he's had up to six of them in a tractor before Factory superchargers Turbo Charge fuel injection for Holley dominators on each one oh this is great. This is when life was fun I missed the 80s

I really miss tractor pulling. Too bad it went extinct.

Really been enjoying this kind of monster truck racing. Be fun to see a promoter bring back this style of racing with modern trucks.

The age of the Grave Digger body at the time....37 years old. This event....almost 37 years ago today. 😳

i would so love to see a nostalgia league for these trucks, or let guys on a lower budget build 1 of these to run

This aired Tuesday March 1st, 1988.

I dont know why they thought the mini mogul between the cars was a good idea. Glad they removed it.

1:00:00 Barbara Streisand?

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The Hull's have been running the MM1000 for a long, long, time.

Watched it over here in Germany 30 years ago on TV with my dad. Great memories! :)

3:45 The most incredible balls to the wall run from the TNT days. I'd love to see a modern truck run tracks like this with 12 cars stacks.

Decmber 1997

4wd v6

I saw the Banters other 7-engine tractor about 5 years before this. Never saw the 7-engine tractor where #7 was behind the driver. That sandy track messed up a lot of drivers who overpowered it. I was really impressed with Phil Patterson on the Sassy Massey. I don't think he revved the engines to redline. Maybe he picked a higher gear to limit the power available and hauled it out the end effortlessly.

I was at this one. Was only 7 years old. Bring back some good memories

Jim said this was the newest machine he was figuring out still. Was this Bigfoot #6? (Awesome post btw, thank you!)

was shown in german tv side channel back then in mid late 90s, i enjoyed watching monster trucks, mud racers and hill climbers hahhahaha

27:02 Blowover

the Basic 7

My Grandpa pulled here from the very beginning, he was one of the true pioneers of the sport, after retiring the Cockshutt Super 570 fit with 4 turbochargers, he was a lead announcer for NTPA for many years... His name was Lloyd Douglas, or.. Super Cecil Diesel... I was so lucky to get to go to ALL of the top pulls every summer... Every one of these pullers if asked if they remember Lloyd Douglas's grandson Derek always playing in the pits, would absolutely remember... and I remember them.. You posted another video of Tomah this same year, that is my Grandpa, my hero, announcing that pull, even catch a glimpse of him awarding Dave Banter... He Might of been announcing this one as well, I couldnt hear... anyways, NEVER... thought I would ever hear his voice again... THANK YOU!!!

That was my question of the week

What an event! So many champions from different series & even eras. I like how even though they couldn't show all 19 trucks run, they made an effort to get them in clips and in the background.

Roger Simon lived only an hour and 20 mins from me

20 Mule Team still pulls on the New York Circuit for the Hayes Team out of Fonda.

beans doesn't care >beans a cow

Love to watch em Flogg on that 23 C Vitton Motors Clem Clemson Machine .

So the guy with the jet powered truck didn't get to go in the finals

Love the Bieffe helmet