Bigfoot #8: The Beginning

A in depth look at Bigfoot #8 through its testing and unveiling from the Bigfoot team at the time.

[@xtrat_]

Jim: "Its almost impossible to flip!" Andy: Are you challenging me?!

[@manatarms]

This is great! I remember when Bigfoot 8 debuted in the TNT Monster Truck Challenge. It was so dominate that they ended up banning it for half the season so other trucks could catch up. Does anyone have any of that old TNT Monster Truck Challenge footage?

[@Tarv1]

Brings back some memories, got to visit the shop in the early 90s while on vacation as a kid, also I had the Bigfoot Strikes Again VHS, actually think I still have it somewhere lol

[@44funsize]

I love the muffler on #8 and 9, lets you hear that supercharger more.

[@jasonmurdoch9936]

Long live Bigfoot the original monster truck that paved the way for all the others to follow

[@JerOutlaw]

no roll cages were already intergrated from the main frame of the truck in the cab, Bigfoot 8 was the first to have a complete tube chassis

[@jasonmurdoch9936]

You can't beat the sound or the power of that old big block pushrod Ford

[@scaryterry24]

thanks for this vid I was born in 84 and was and still am a big BIGFOOT fan I just love watching the stuff from when Monster trucks was monster trucks

[@johnwilburn]

8:57 ! That truck had a crazy power to weight ratio. It was fun to watch.

[@Mistertbones]

Bigfoot 8 debuted at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. He ran some USHRA races in 1990 before going to TNT.

[@Arctic_Falcon]

I know this is from a decade ago lol, but BF8 also ran late-1989/early 1990 TNT events when it was all blue and had the BF6 rollbar (can also be seen during the 1990 USHRA Anaheim event). Non were televised though but I've seen a photo and Bob Chandler confirmed this on Facebook a while ago.

[@TJ-qz6hr]

I just came here to see Bigfoot.

[@EpicConspiracy]

I remember as a kid watching big foot 8 get banned. Which was fine for me because I was a giant Equalizer fan.

[@BigBoy061084]

can u up the video this cam from it is called battle of the bigfoots

[@Mistertbones]

Taurus did run the TNT race in Bowling Green in 1989!

[@musicman3005]

my favorite bigfoot truck ever ! ! !

[@jasonmurdoch9936]

💯

[@ericsweeney6304]

Always thought this was the first race truck but did Equalizer beat them?

[@jasonvoorheesy2k]

Wow Dan Patrick (PEI) looks so young here, makes me feel old. thanks for posting

[@BigBoy061084]

Can we get the whole tape this is from..

[@RB26DETTPR]

This is from battle of the bigfoots.TNT footage of BF 8 is al over youtube

[@Lewmatic]

lol i always wondered who rolled the truck in testing, never thought it would be andy brass to do it.

[@jumbomarkercreations]

Could you fing the video with info about the bigfoot ranger & bigfoot shuttle. I believe it on the 'Bigfoot strikes again' tape if i remember right.

[@RB26DETTPR]

You are correct and yes I do know all that. What I meant was that all the hoopla w/ Bigfoot probably aide jack willman not to participate in any important TNT events or even run the series

[@RB26DETTPR]

i lost my dvd copy of it and I cant find it anywhere else unles its ebay and in tape form:-(

[@Constantine1222]

a good friend of mine said "Bigfoot 8 came out...and that was it."

[@BigBoy061084]

can u download battle of the bigfoot's that is what this is from..

[@JerOutlaw]

@scaryterry24 thanks for watching!

[@Lsu_Gav]

Did part 2 every show up?????

[@Mudfish4X4]

What is the name of that song at the begining????

[@BigBoy061084]

hey can u find battle of they bigfoots this is what this is from

[@ls1killa]

hey, did they sell bigfoot 7 for $50k?

[@Rangerman69420]

Dumb question whatever happened to number 8 it kinda just disappeared.

[@JerOutlaw]

It is used as a display truck currently.

[@JerOutlaw]

I will look for it

[@softwave1662]

First modern monster truck

[@JerOutlaw]

yes it was TNT, didnt matter because they still brought home 1st place

[@JerOutlaw]

@blowersho I can try I am currently moving at the moment though

[@JerOutlaw]

good eyes, yes that is Bigfoot 9, as Bigfoot 8 ran the more standard up and down nitrogen shocks after finishing the 1990 tnt season

[@waynenorbreyjr9371]

I noticed back when this video came out that the truck that Bob and Gary were in front of was not #8.

[@RB26DETTPR]

Also Everett Jasmer complained about BF 8 and he had TNT change a ruling on the engine size to fit him and his truck. He had 5 572 ci engines including the one the truck ran and the rule was going to be to downsize to 500 ci. Scott Stevens did complain to. This controversy in fact aided the new Taurus racer from '89 not to run with TNT eve though Taurus was coil sprung wich was legal. If Chandler would have put coilovers insted of the cantiilever system history would have been so different

[@nathanmcdonald610]

Jasmer and Stephens were just crybabies, the couldn't handle losing is all it amounted to. Neither one of them could build a truck that could run with Bigfoot #8 so they did the next best thing and got it banned from competition, the funny thing is though, the Bigfoot crew came back to compete with the then outdated Bigfoot #4 and still whooped their asses. I am a Ford guy and Bigfoot will always be my favorite Monster Truck, but I always thought USA-1 was a very competent performer and one of the few that actually stood a fighting chance against Bigfoot however, I kind of lost respect for Everett Jasmer after I watched a video series here on youtube that documented his lobby to get #8 banned from competition, he came off as arrogant and petty.

[@dragonfly492]

It wasn't the use of the cantilever, but it was the use of the nitrogen shocks on the cantilever suspension.

[@JerOutlaw]

thanks

[@JerOutlaw]

there have always been politics in monster trucks, the sad part is they have no place in the sport. everyone has the freedom to believe what they want, whether right or wrong. just please dont preach to others, as some might be new and take the information as fact when in fact it was clouded by an opinion.

[@RB26DETTPR]

its funny how abanks1959 comment was removed. Hey abanks1959 look for yourself at bob chandler saying about the everett's complaining. the video is in youtube. Now what I ve written here is an extension of many others that have bloged about it for years regarding this and other situatuions with in the monster truck community.

[@dragonfly492]

What are you talking about?

[@leeterthanyou]

@@dragonfly492 Something to do with Everett Jackson, if I recall. I dunno, man. You're the one replying to a 13 year old comment from back when youtube comments didn't have threads.

[@rorcentralracingleag]

yes

[@JerOutlaw]

@Mudfish4X4 ready to roll by jet black stare

[@gmtgmt123]

it got him banned for 3 mouth i belive it was from TNT Monster truck challange

[@44funsize]

I have this vhs tape.

[@ryanlandes1629]

it's a shame that this truck got stolen over in Brazil

[@SDRacing88]

No, it was number 9.

[@nathanmcdonald610]

Wrong truck, Bigfoot #8 is still in the hands of the Bigfoot crew (though its mainly used for display and exhibition purposes these days) its not longer a race truck. Bigfoot #9 was the one lost to the Brazilian customs debacle.

[@wnh7790]

big foot 4 2.0

[@breakfastclub3909]

cant believe you took bigfoot4x4 copyright video and are using it.

[@coyote5.02]

The first monster dune buggy lol. monster trucks died after 8 was created

[@JerOutlaw]

Because no other form of motorsports uses tube framed chassis's at all huh

[@coyote5.02]

JerOutlaw I didn’t say that. but since you insist. nascar died too when they stopped using factory built cars. when it comes to drag racing. I only watch the street classes. cause those other classes don’t use actual cars.

[@coyote5.02]

JerOutlaw I go to the mud bogs to see real monster trucks. not oversized dune buggy’s

[@JerOutlaw]

coyote 5.0 one of those elitest types, gotcha.

[@coyote5.02]

JerOutlaw nope. Just speaking the truth.