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2006-08-18 05:09:21 · 8 answers · asked by y_answrs_brainbus 3 in Sports ➔ Auto Racing
In the late 1970s, modified pickup trucks were becoming popular and the sports of mud bogging and truck pulling were gaining in popularity. Several truck owners had created lifted trucks to compete in such events, and soon competition to hold the title of "biggest truck" developed. The trucks which garnered the most national attention were Jeff and Steve Dane's Awesome Kong, Bob Chandler's Bigfoot, and Fred Shafer and Jack Willman Sr.'s Bear Foot. At the time, the largest tires the trucks were running were 48 inches in diameter.
2006-08-18 05:14:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bob Chandler was looking at some big earth mover tires, surplus I think from the military, and he wondered what he could do with them. He put them on his Ford truck for kicks and it seemed kinda cool. He did a demo with a car, the crunch thing, and that was all she wrote. The monster was unleashed.
2006-08-18 12:12:55 · answer #2 · answered by craigrr929 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1974 Bob Chandler built Bigfoot, a modified Ford F250. Then along came Bear-foot to challenge Bigfoot and the sport took off.
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2006-08-18 06:10:52 · answer #3 · answered by lbuajlw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Big Foot was really the official start of it all. Bob Chandler built Big Foot not Ford.
2006-08-18 06:10:38 · answer #4 · answered by ezachowski 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all started back in the Stone Age when brains were fairly small. "Big, Good" was one of the ideologies that spawned the monster truck craze. If you attend one of these events, grunting can still be heard. VERY PRIMAL!
2006-08-22 04:38:38 · answer #5 · answered by sgt_b01 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It started when Ford built "BigFoot" It was an experiment that took off as a trend
2006-08-18 05:15:10 · answer #6 · answered by me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The phenomenon evolved whilst someone was waiting for a red-neck to say "Shoot, them tires on that truck are just waaaaay too biiigggg!"
...and of course, that never happenned, and never will.
2006-08-18 18:44:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
entertainment at small town fairs
2006-08-18 05:33:30 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋