I think what happen with why they didn't film them because they only had so many episodes left before USHRA Pace and SRO took over the Tuff trax(which was turn into Supertrax) So they decided to skip over those as televised episodes
This the last TNT event.....I don't care what anybody says - TNT had the best courses and the best trucks. Its a shame that USHRA bought them out. Kinda like when the NBA bought out the old ABA back in the 70's
These shows took place after PACE/SRO Motorsports' buyout of TNT was finalized. I wonder what the feeling was in the pits knowing this would be TNT's last hurrah before everyone went to USHRA, USA Motorsports or Special Events as their primary home for the 1991 season.
1990 TNT Monster Trucks (Hypothetical) Points Standings (After Race 34 TV/YT): 1 Equalizer - D.Morris/G.Holbrook/M.Wine 175 2 Bigfoot - Andy Brass/John Piant 170 3 Carolina Crusher - Gary Porter 138 4 Auto Value King Krunch - Scott Stephens 126 5 Gravedigger - Dennis Anderson 81 6 Night Life - Dave Weiczoreck 77 7 USA-1 - Steve Wilke 75 8 Jersey Outlaw - Mike Wine 73 9 Awesome Kong - Steve Cain 62 10 No Problem - John Moore/David Morris 56 Clydesdale - Bennett Clark 56 12 Buffalo Tremor II - Johnny Kwasniewski 54 13 Wild Hair - Marvin Smith 52 14 Thunder Chicken - Kid Rerig/Karen Pensyl 30 15 King Kong - Steve Cain 25 16 Mopar Magic - Gary Wiggins 23 17 Master of Disaster - Doug Spanier 21 18 Mad Dog - Jon Breen/Bob Breen 20 19 Tuff e' Nuff - Pablo Cruz 17 Whiskey Business - Ken Deppe 17 21 Pony Express - Anthony Fortier 14 22 Micro Machines - Kurt Fisher 13 23 Playin' for Keeps - Jessie Birgey 10 24 Rambo - Bill Weaver 6 Liquidator - Bob Fisher 6 Star Monster - Chris Tuffley 6 27 Bearly Tame - Kevin Dabney 5 Fanatic - Arlene Edd 5 29 Barbarian - Jim Miller 4 30 Rocky Mountain Thunder - Nick Jackson 3 Troublemaker - Jody Peterson 3 Rocky Mountain High - John Valdez 3 33 Pain Crusher - Ron Pain 2 34 Bad News - Norman Meyers 1 35 4-Wheel Crazy - Rob Morris 0
@@cwatson42785 That's a great question to which there are multiple answers depending on the truck/driver(s). Equalizer started out the 1990 season with David Morris as the defending champion truck/driver combination with Equalizer. I was not there firsthand, but the common details generally describe disagreements between Morris and the owner Gary Cook about what direction to take the truck in relative to suspension set-up, parts, safety, etc. Ultimately, David walked out in the middle of an event after things got heated between the two. Gary needed a driver and Mike Wine’s Outlaw had sustained too much damage to continue racing that weekend, so Cook hired him to drive in emergency duty. Later, Cook hired Greg Holbrook, who was a 19 year old kid, to be his full time driver for the rest of the season as more of a boss/employee relationship as opposed to the previous partnership. The Bigfoot team started 1990 off with the new hyper-developed “truck of the future” Bigfoot #8 with Andy Brass behind the wheel. However, after early dominance TNT ruled that the truck was too advanced and banned it for a few months to allow the other drivers to update their trucks to a competitive level. The Bigfoot team still wanted to run for the championship during this time, so Bob Chandler had John Piant race the Bigfoot #4 truck for points during the time #8 was banned. Kid Rarig owned and raced the Thunder Chicken truck for the majority of his career and was relatively competitive at times. However, he was never at the top of the points race, and one three-day event he decided to let his girlfriend/wife Karen drive the truck at the final show. Although there was an apparent power steering failure as she failed to keep the truck on the track. The Breen Brothers owned and raced Mad Dog, Wild Hair, Whiskey Business, and Micro Machines over multiple years with Jon driving Mad Dog for the majority of the early years. However, Bob had a tendency to be more of a “wild man” behind the wheel, so as the racing aspect of the sport rapidly progressed making Mad Dog a bit outdated by the ’90 season, they chose to have Bob drive in hopes that it would be more competitive while Jon focused on the shop and business aspect and hired the former Magnum Force mud racer Kurt Fischer to drive Micro Machines. The final multi-driver team I see here at this specific time is for the No Problem monster truck. John Moore drove No Problem for almost the entirety of its lifespan including through the HPX stage three truck while his wife owned and handled the monetary side of it. A couple months after the Morris/Cook break-up which included David getting married and having a baby during that span, he decided he wanted to test the waters about possibly getting back into the monster truck racing business. Being a world champion driver, John decided to roll the dice and put Morris behind the wheel for a weekend to potentially spark a run at the title. Unfortunately, whether it was due to a completely different style of truck and set-up or simply rust from being out of the sport, this experiment did not have much success. These are the stories relative to the drivers in this specific thread, but there are many more out there with even more backstories. These testimonies are described to the best of my knowledge and off the top of my head, so if I have misconstrued anything, or if anyone has more in-depth details, please feel free to correct or enlighten me. I am always looking to learn more about what I consider the golden age of monster trucks. Until then, as Richard Leak would say, “I’ll see you on the track!”
Initially, the front shocks on the truck were mounted to the axle from the middle point of the chassis within the frame rails, so since there were no sway bars installed the truck leaned to the left due to having more weight on that side. Gary even nicknamed the truck "Ilene" in this set up before redoing the chassis during the 1992 season.
Man these videos are great. Reliving my childhood here.
Thank you for this. Definitely reliving my childhood. Excellent memories. ❤️
I do wish we would have the Hagerstown and the Toronto events to show Bigfoot 8's push towards the 1990 TNT Championship.
I think what happen with why they didn't film them because they only had so many episodes left before USHRA Pace and SRO took over the Tuff trax(which was turn into Supertrax) So they decided to skip over those as televised episodes
This the last TNT event.....I don't care what anybody says - TNT had the best courses and the best trucks. Its a shame that USHRA bought them out. Kinda like when the NBA bought out the old ABA back in the 70's
Scott Douglas looks so young
These shows took place after PACE/SRO Motorsports' buyout of TNT was finalized. I wonder what the feeling was in the pits knowing this would be TNT's last hurrah before everyone went to USHRA, USA Motorsports or Special Events as their primary home for the 1991 season.
The final TNT races ever. Those co-promoted USHRA/TNT events don't count in my book.
How I miss this style of Monster Truck competition. Haven't seen anything like it since the PENDA points series on TNN.
That first jump by Bigfoot looked like CGI he went so high.
Lol it was crazy! I think bigfoot 8 was the best monster truck of all time imo.
Good ole monsta truckin, its a shame that arena was so empty...
Back when monster truck racing was awesome. Anyone know where I can watch the ESPN Speedworld shows of this series?
Here on RUclips, this channel has a good bit if not all the shows of this series
1990 TNT Monster Trucks (Hypothetical) Points Standings (After Race 34 TV/YT):
1 Equalizer - D.Morris/G.Holbrook/M.Wine 175
2 Bigfoot - Andy Brass/John Piant 170
3 Carolina Crusher - Gary Porter 138
4 Auto Value King Krunch - Scott Stephens 126
5 Gravedigger - Dennis Anderson 81
6 Night Life - Dave Weiczoreck 77
7 USA-1 - Steve Wilke 75
8 Jersey Outlaw - Mike Wine 73
9 Awesome Kong - Steve Cain 62
10 No Problem - John Moore/David Morris 56
Clydesdale - Bennett Clark 56
12 Buffalo Tremor II - Johnny Kwasniewski 54
13 Wild Hair - Marvin Smith 52
14 Thunder Chicken - Kid Rerig/Karen Pensyl 30
15 King Kong - Steve Cain 25
16 Mopar Magic - Gary Wiggins 23
17 Master of Disaster - Doug Spanier 21
18 Mad Dog - Jon Breen/Bob Breen 20
19 Tuff e' Nuff - Pablo Cruz 17
Whiskey Business - Ken Deppe 17
21 Pony Express - Anthony Fortier 14
22 Micro Machines - Kurt Fisher 13
23 Playin' for Keeps - Jessie Birgey 10
24 Rambo - Bill Weaver 6
Liquidator - Bob Fisher 6
Star Monster - Chris Tuffley 6
27 Bearly Tame - Kevin Dabney 5
Fanatic - Arlene Edd 5
29 Barbarian - Jim Miller 4
30 Rocky Mountain Thunder - Nick Jackson 3
Troublemaker - Jody Peterson 3
Rocky Mountain High - John Valdez 3
33 Pain Crusher - Ron Pain 2
34 Bad News - Norman Meyers 1
35 4-Wheel Crazy - Rob Morris 0
Why did some trucks have multiple drivers? Kind of odd so was wondering why it is?
@@cwatson42785 That's a great question to which there are multiple answers depending on the truck/driver(s). Equalizer started out the 1990 season with David Morris as the defending champion truck/driver combination with Equalizer. I was not there firsthand, but the common details generally describe disagreements between Morris and the owner Gary Cook about what direction to take the truck in relative to suspension set-up, parts, safety, etc. Ultimately, David walked out in the middle of an event after things got heated between the two. Gary needed a driver and Mike Wine’s Outlaw had sustained too much damage to continue racing that weekend, so Cook hired him to drive in emergency duty. Later, Cook hired Greg Holbrook, who was a 19 year old kid, to be his full time driver for the rest of the season as more of a boss/employee relationship as opposed to the previous partnership.
The Bigfoot team started 1990 off with the new hyper-developed “truck of the future” Bigfoot #8 with Andy Brass behind the wheel. However, after early dominance TNT ruled that the truck was too advanced and banned it for a few months to allow the other drivers to update their trucks to a competitive level. The Bigfoot team still wanted to run for the championship during this time, so Bob Chandler had John Piant race the Bigfoot #4 truck for points during the time #8 was banned.
Kid Rarig owned and raced the Thunder Chicken truck for the majority of his career and was relatively competitive at times. However, he was never at the top of the points race, and one three-day event he decided to let his girlfriend/wife Karen drive the truck at the final show. Although there was an apparent power steering failure as she failed to keep the truck on the track.
The Breen Brothers owned and raced Mad Dog, Wild Hair, Whiskey Business, and Micro Machines over multiple years with Jon driving Mad Dog for the majority of the early years. However, Bob had a tendency to be more of a “wild man” behind the wheel, so as the racing aspect of the sport rapidly progressed making Mad Dog a bit outdated by the ’90 season, they chose to have Bob drive in hopes that it would be more competitive while Jon focused on the shop and business aspect and hired the former Magnum Force mud racer Kurt Fischer to drive Micro Machines.
The final multi-driver team I see here at this specific time is for the No Problem monster truck. John Moore drove No Problem for almost the entirety of its lifespan including through the HPX stage three truck while his wife owned and handled the monetary side of it. A couple months after the Morris/Cook break-up which included David getting married and having a baby during that span, he decided he wanted to test the waters about possibly getting back into the monster truck racing business. Being a world champion driver, John decided to roll the dice and put Morris behind the wheel for a weekend to potentially spark a run at the title. Unfortunately, whether it was due to a completely different style of truck and set-up or simply rust from being out of the sport, this experiment did not have much success.
These are the stories relative to the drivers in this specific thread, but there are many more out there with even more backstories. These testimonies are described to the best of my knowledge and off the top of my head, so if I have misconstrued anything, or if anyone has more in-depth details, please feel free to correct or enlighten me. I am always looking to learn more about what I consider the golden age of monster trucks. Until then, as Richard Leak would say, “I’ll see you on the track!”
Is it just me or did Greg Holbrook always look stoned?
Yea he did didn't he? Lol. Still a good driver. Even a lil better than david morris in my opinion. Both good drivers of course.
Nah just southern
Big Foot driver with that voice says he has sucked on to much nitros oxide
What was up with Greg Holbrook??
The guy had no facial expressions at all.
Slow talking, slow walking Gary Porter and Carolina Crusher III
I wonder why this Carolina Crusher always leaned to the left?
It could of been the stability on the suspension and the weight of Carolina crusher but that's my opinion
So this was the debut of Crusher 3, they talked about Crusher 2 being sold. Who bought it? What truck did it become?
@@rclsu13 Carolina Crusher II was sold to Don Van Loo and became the first Bad Medicine
@@OSDCrusher thanks for that!
Initially, the front shocks on the truck were mounted to the axle from the middle point of the chassis within the frame rails, so since there were no sway bars installed the truck leaned to the left due to having more weight on that side. Gary even nicknamed the truck "Ilene" in this set up before redoing the chassis during the 1992 season.
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Monster trucks is like WWF is all rigged
You must be a special style of stupid, Chris. Monster truck racing is a whole lot different than wrestling, fool
It has been rigged for a long time.
The ABA comment is spot on. TNT was in some financial trouble too, but it's still a shame.