1994 PENDA Monster Truck Challenge Canfield, OH Race 4

[@jootai]

i miss the 90's

[@stanleychiu7594]

Eric Tack kinda ruined the whole Snake Bite being unrelated to Bigfoot thing by wearing a Bigfoot shirt on top of the Snake Bite outfit.

[@waynenorbreyjr9371]

I don't know about all that. During the 93 Penda Series you could see Jim Kramer helping out with the Snakebite truck.

[@stanleychiu7594]

@@waynenorbreyjr9371 Well, you could potentially chalk that up to just helping out another team... but wearing a mixed outfit is kind of hard to explain away. :)

[@waynenorbreyjr9371]

@@stanleychiu7594 Lol, true! I highly doubt that Eric Tack was the one who ruined that. I'm sure it came out well before this. I knew from the start that Snakebite was a Bigfoot truck in disguise. To someone who wouldn't look at the details would have probably never thought that. In Tack's defense he probably at the time didn't think about the fact that he had on both and the camera was filming every bit of it.

[@stanleychiu7594]

@@waynenorbreyjr9371 Yeah, I was mostly referring to the kids who only watched these monster trucks on TV and wouldn't have known anything different from what they were told. I was mostly just kidding though. :)

[@waynenorbreyjr9371]

@@stanleychiu7594 It's all good!

[@lukesgameplay9121]

rear engine Monster Patrol? interesting

[@KillerKamanu]

It’s crazy to think that nearly all of these teams were independent minus Bigfoot.

[@nathan4432]

right? especially Gary Porter's truck. the first serious chevy. monster trucks is why i buy fords and not chevy's

[@KillerKamanu]

Nathan I do kinda feel bad tho because Ford kinda did kill this industry until everybody started catching up id say from the 80’s to 97 it was basically all Bigfoot which is cool but it really isn’t fair to have corporate sponsored trucks competing against all independent teams

[@nathan4432]

@@KillerKamanu chrysler jumped in around 92. Shame on chevy and co not jumping on sooner. Bad marketing from them.

[@KillerKamanu]

Nathan true I wouldn’t necessarily blame them tho because they don’t have anything to do with the sport aside from the body. Fords only really smart because they jumped on when it was first starting and with an even playing field until they started getting advanced om everyone

[@Arctic_Falcon]

@@KillerKamanu Fred Shafer's trucks were factory-backed by Dodge, basically the Dodge equivalent of Bigfoot. A lot of the teams other than Bigfoot in this video had serious sponsorships (such as Dan Patrick). Paul Shafer was/is probably wealthier than Bob Chandler during this time (he owned/still owns one of the largest salvage yards in the country with an annual revenue of about $20 million). The problem with the non-Bigfoot teams wasn't so much sponsorship (after all the Kong trucks and Equalizer consistently beat Bigfoot with little to no sponsorship a few years before this), but lack of ingenuity and massive Ford power. Sponsorship and money is only a fraction of what made Bigfoot a winning team -- Chandler was a brilliant designer and always hired great talent to make his ideas a reality.

[@coyote5.02]

Always said brass and Kramer were Bigfoot’s best drivers.

[@stanleychiu7594]

I think most would think Dan Runte surpassed them both after driving Bigfoot competitively for over 20 years.

[@coyote5.02]

@@stanleychiu7594 can you image if brass or Kramer drove Bigfoot for that long.

[@stanleychiu7594]

@@coyote5.02 Really hard to compare Jim since he was from a very different era.

[@coyote5.02]

@@stanleychiu7594 he had to retire cause of his back if my memory serves me right.

[@waynenorbreyjr9371]

@@stanleychiu7594 All 3 were some of the best Bigfoot drivers. Dan Runte seems to be the one who stayed behind the wheel longer.