TNT Monster Truck Challenge 1990 Flemington Race 1 (TuffTrax)

After a long awaited return to the TNT monster truck challenge, can Bigfoot 8 pick up where it left off? The north east tour is on!
Featuring:
USA-1-Steve Wilke
Equalizer-Greg Holbrook
Bigfoot 8-Andy Brass
Carolina Crusher-Gary Porter
Outlaw-Mike Wine
Grave Digger-Dennis Anderson
King Krunch-Scott Stephens
Clydesdale-Bennett Clark
No Problem!-John Moore
Wild Hair-Marvin Smith
Night Life-Dave Weiczorek

[@midsouth2strokes185]

Love Tuff Trax. Me and my dad wouldn't miss it. Even remember the USA-1 crew chief smashing his head on the door 😂. That shoulda been the crunch of the week.

[@Blimpus]

Thank you so much for putting these up. I am so reliving these moments again,so darn cool. Love this old stuff.

[@waynenorbreyjr9371]

I couldn't agree with you anymore on that love the old stuff and thanks for individuals and KZbin for allowing us to be able to relive these moments. Thx to Mtuncensored for posting all of the videos that's posted.

[@fernandochaves9665]

28:05 you don't hear things like that anymore in this sport, the brand identity is lost. This was an outstanding event, lots of exciting races... Thanks for the upload.

[@Kouvre]

USA-1's final televised victory in TNT.

[@mtfan]

The editing on this show is interesting. They used the 1991 Crunch of the Week graphics and used a different voiceover for the takeaways for it.

[@MisterGravelrama]

1990 TNT Monster Trucks (Hypothetical) Points Standings (After Race 28 TV/YT): 1 Equalizer - D.Morris/G.Holbrook/M.Wine 145 2 Bigfoot - Andy Brass/John Piant 132 3 Carolina Crusher - Gary Porter 102 4 Auto Value King Krunch - Scott Stephens 96 5 Gravedigger - Dennis Anderson 71 6 Night Life - Dave Weiczoreck 64 7 USA-1 - Steve Wilke 63 8 Awesome Kong - Steve Cain 62 9 Jersey Outlaw - Mike Wine 54 10 Clydesdale - Bennett Clark 47 11 Wild Hair - Marvin Smith 45 12 Buffalo Tremor II - Johnny Kwasniewski 44 13 No Problem - John Moore/David Morris 40 14 Thunder Chicken - Kid Rerig/Karen Pensyl 24 15 Mopar Magic - Gary Wiggins 22 16 Master of Disaster - Doug Spanier 21 King Kong - Steve Cain 21 18 Mad Dog - Jon Breen/Bob Breen 20 19 Tuff e' Nuff - Pablo Cruz 17 Whiskey Business - Ken Deppe 17 21 Micro Machines - Kurt Fisher 13 22 Pony Express - Anthony Fortier 12 23 Playin' for Keeps - Jessie Birgey 7 24 Liquidator - Bob Fisher 6 25 Bearly Tame - Kevin Dabney 5 Fanatic - Arlene Edd 5 27 Barbarian - Jim Miller 4 Star Monster - Chris Tuffley 4 29 Rocky Mountain Thunder - Nick Jackson 3 Troublemaker - Jody Peterson 3 Rocky Mountain High - John Valdez 3 32 Bad News - Norman Meyers 1 33 4-Wheel Crazy - Rob Morris 0

[@Arctic_Falcon]

I would love to know the reasoning behind USA-1 retaining the steel body/glass windows. In this video they had at least two fiberglass bodies just sitting around the shop. With the amount of crashes they had in 89/90, they could have saved themselves a lot of extra work during repairs, not to mention making the truck lighter, and easier to repair in the future. And to think, those bodies still sit around in that same shop, in the same condition to this day. It's a shame they didn't just pull out of the 89 season at some point and finish #3 for 1990. It would be cool if Everett would finish it the way it was going to be.

[@LextechLighting]

Easy answer. Fiberglass racing bodies were more expensive and USA1 never just "rolled" he destroyed the body every time. It would have ran them into the poor house to replace a fiberglass body every other race. The "new truck" that didn't make this event is still in the exact same shape it was the day of this race, sitting in the back of the shop. Everett said a couple years ago he never touched it again.

[@the_hillbillytransportatio3143]

The fiberglass bodies were for the new truck not this one

[@stevendudley5687]

Everett sounds like a procrastinator.

[@SDRacing88]

Brother you aint the only one. I always dreamed of a PEI chassis underneath a new bodied regular cab USA-1. Everett missed out on staying in the game in the 90s.

[@fernandochaves9665]

And maybe he wanted to keep the truck closer to an actual truck, i understand they even used an original chevy frame. A lot cooler that way in my opinion, but being light and using a tube frame is what actually made them faster and more reliable (and safer). I'm not much into the fiberglass thing, anyway; give me an old heavy steel monster all day.

[@OSDCrusher]

4:38, when the front axle impacts the set of cars in the other lane, looks like Steve Wilke's head actually gets thrown outside the cab of USA1 from the impact

[@stanleychiu7594]

I think Bigfoot made a tactical error... didn't need to go all out against either Clydesdale or Wild Hair... could have taken it much easier over the first set to not get all out of shape in no-man's land.

[@Blimpus]

Does anybody know whatever happened to David Morris and Andy Brass?

[@MTuncensored]

Andy went to run Nascar Truck series racing and then left racing to focus on his family as far as I know. He did an interview for TMB a few years back. David Morris sold Equalizer to Mike Hawkins from Manassas VA near where I live and Hawkins built a new truck. Mike Vaters of Black Stallion now has the original Equalizer chassis. I'm not entirely certain what Morris is up to.

[@Blimpus]

Wow thank you. I started getting back into monster jam and started thinking whatever happened to all these drivers.

[@waynenorbreyjr9371]

Didn't know you were close to Manassas, Va. I'm just a lil ways down the road in Fredericksburg,Va.

[@DaMo-Studios]

I'm in Lynchburg VA

[@LextechLighting]

@@MTuncensored was that the one they put in the museum? *original Equalizer

[@kylebowman652]

Anybody know the theme song by chance?

[@Andrew_460]

LOL imagine getting banned for being too good. Happens a lot to Ford.

[@fernandochaves9665]

Like the Clevelands in Pro Stock.

[@WhistleTeets85]

Too bad Grave Digger broke, I think he'd have won.

[@mtuncensored1340]

Andy was still running the truck for other promoters.