Bigfoot 5 was always one of my favorites because of those enormous tires. Glad I was a kid in the 80's and got to grow up watching the genesis of monster truck racing.
Me too I use to go to a monster truck show every year at the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit and there was a monster truck show in Ontario called twin creeks they would have monster trucks on year and tractor pulls the next year and use to go to them every year as a kid I saw so many cool things as a kid in the 80's. I wish I could go back and do it all again.
Those wheels really seem more of a novelty than anything. Still cool to watch. Those old Ford bodies with that metallic deep blue sure are something else.
@@kellypg was for the leturano snow train for getting supplys up to alaska or at least for the time they had used it before they found other means, bob found the tires in a junkyard and bought them all I belive
Saw this truck in person when I was a little kid in the early 90's, walked under it. I think a shorter dude could walk under the differentials without hitting his head, the sheer scale of this truck was epic. It was twice as tall as the other monster trucks, I remember the driver doing the same "ghost riding" stunt later in the show as well.
Awesome! I grew up in St. Louis during the 80's. Home of Bigfoot. Been to the Bigfoot museum in Hazelwood several times. This brings back good memories.
I remember seeing the OG Bigfoot at a show as a kid back in the early 80's and thought it was the coolest truck ever then they built Bigfoot 5 and that was crazy it made the OG Bigfoot look like a regular truck. I loved it back then because they were real truck bodies on those trucks unlike today when they are fiberglass or carbon fiber bodies around a steel cage and chassis
I got to see that truck in person at a truck pull in Pontiac, MI. I remember my dad taking me to the old Pontiac Silverdome for the event as a birthday present. It was incredible to see live!
How many bodies did bigfoot 5 have? I've never seen it with the late 70s body on it, mostly the mid 80s style body or 87+ body. Oh and yeah... Jim Kramer put on a show! I'm sure nowadays sanctioning bodies would allow such a cool show!!
There’s a video on YT that has Bob Chandler on it. He goes through the entire BF fleet and talks about each of them. If I remember right, this truck was one of the last BF’s to feature a modified factory truck frame. I think 6 was the first one to feature the custom built, tube chassis design. Could be wrong though, just telling it as I remember it.
I live 3 minutes from where the Silverdome use to be all my life. I still remember being 3 or 4 driving my Big Foot power wheel. wanting to be like the real Big Foot and it was for reasons like this
I also lived by there. As a kid we would always go to the monster truck shows. Even if you didn’t go you could still hear it because the Silverdome acted like a big speaker. I ended up working there when I was 15 years old. It’s a shame what they did with that stadium
I was there. He said they call that gear, chug. He could have pulled that sled all over down town. Hot Stuff jeep was there and if I remember right, beat Jim racing. Jeff Bainter is a friend of mine and one of the best. Jim is probably my favorite original truck drivers
Back when it was popular I had a road legal 78 GMC Side Step with 1200 20" split rims off an 18 wheeler on it (42" or 44" tall) but only 8" wide, I had it licensed as heavy truck :) ......... AND I still own the bigfoot " 4X4X4 " owners choice license plates too ... but the truck is long gone :(
Ahh the good ol days, all the health and safety nutters would be losing their shit if this went on today. Monster jam participants are strapped in tighter than a feckin astronaut busting through the atmosphere haha.
I wonder how many people dont know that back then these actually were pickup trucks. Today they're all just tube rollcage frame overgrown quads with fiberglass bodies...
The thing that I loved when watching these trucks as a kid is when the monster trucks were done they had the mud drags with all kinds of weird creations. The paddle tires just made the mud buggies and jeeps look cooler. :)
The fact that the announcer comments on the 470 cubic inch engine shows you just how old this video is. 470 cubic inch is child's play by today's standards
I once sat in Bigfoots wheel well when it visited Walmart in the mid 80s. It could of been the real truck in those days..an actual numbered truck. I'm only 80 miles from St Louis. Where Bigfoot was born and bred..
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The tire walk, one of the great automotive stunts of all time
Bigfoot 5 was always one of my favorites because of those enormous tires. Glad I was a kid in the 80's and got to grow up watching the genesis of monster truck racing.
Me too I use to go to a monster truck show every year at the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit and there was a monster truck show in Ontario called twin creeks they would have monster trucks on year and tractor pulls the next year and use to go to them every year as a kid I saw so many cool things as a kid in the 80's. I wish I could go back and do it all again.
Those wheels really seem more of a novelty than anything. Still cool to watch. Those old Ford bodies with that metallic deep blue sure are something else.
Those are snow train wheels.
It pretty much was a novelty. Hell, monster trucks in general are a novelty, and this one is a novelty of novelties.
@Jeremy Backman no. A US army vehicle for moving heavy loads through Alaska
@@kellypg was for the leturano snow train for getting supplys up to alaska or at least for the time they had used it before they found other means, bob found the tires in a junkyard and bought them all I belive
@@manga12 *LeTourneau
As old as this footage is, it's still impressive to see that something like this was created. Amazingly, no one else has accomplished this feat since.
Monster truck jams....muscle cars.... classic heavy metal....big hair....all time favourite fashions 80s was the best ❤️
Saw this truck in person when I was a little kid in the early 90's, walked under it. I think a shorter dude could walk under the differentials without hitting his head, the sheer scale of this truck was epic. It was twice as tall as the other monster trucks, I remember the driver doing the same "ghost riding" stunt later in the show as well.
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Awesome! I grew up in St. Louis during the 80's. Home of Bigfoot. Been to the Bigfoot museum in Hazelwood several times. This brings back good memories.
I remember having a VHS tape with nothing but big foot. I was like 4 years old
Had the same tape. Loved it as a kid
@@meanodustino9563 As did I! I wore that tape flat out
Its a pleasure to see all the classic 80's ford bronko tow trucks and the flatbeds.
HOW COOL would it have been to have Jim Kramer's job, back when all of this stuff was still in the development / creation stage??
What an awesome truck!!! 10 feet tall tundra tyres!!! The 80s was the best decade for so many things.
Thanks to my uncle I've had the pleasure of standing beside those tires when I was a kid in the '80s!
I love the showmanship!
The 80's was such a great decade.
Hell yeah great boomboxes, music, radios, computers, technology. Everything looked and sounded so badass. Quality made with style.
@@KandiKlover Proud 80's Baby ! l,mao
Bigfoot, Arnold, Stallone, Hulk Hogan, music was high energy fun. Everything felt a little bigger.
Same as any other decade in my opinion... well obviously different, but we didn't see it any different back then.
@@KandiKlover Yep especially the great quality and much more powerful, louder home and car stereo systems in the 80's.
Nothing beats a classic
You guys should really put that body style back on 5. I love that thing.
I know who has that original body on the truck
His name is Eli Mann on Facebook
He also owns Bigfoot #3 and 1s old cab
Without BigFoot
We wouldn't have Monster Trucks
I remember seeing the OG Bigfoot at a show as a kid back in the early 80's and thought it was the coolest truck ever then they built Bigfoot 5 and that was crazy it made the OG Bigfoot look like a regular truck. I loved it back then because they were real truck bodies on those trucks unlike today when they are fiberglass or carbon fiber bodies around a steel cage and chassis
Bigfoot is my favorite monster truck ever
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Does the slow roll up, flashbulbs goin off, people absolutely losin' their minds. Awesome.
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The monster truck of all monster trucks
My favorite monster truck of all time. Bigfoot ‘5’
So thats were ghost riding the whip come from lol.. That was dope👍👍
H ell yeah
Yeah millennials think they're so original, they're just copycats and don't even realize it
Big Foot and Grave Digger. those were the days
Grave digger was my favorite one
What about max d
Knightwolf 248 max d wasn’t invented in the 1980’s
DIN NER Grave Digger
@@knightwolf2489 he's cool but I haven't seen him in a while
Man I sure miss them days of truck pulls ,my favorite 2wd truck was Orange blossom 👍🏾👍🏾
Such a great truck. I'm glad it's still here!
This came to my home town 4 years ago and I remember standing in the tires with VIP access and they are sooo big
This thing is pulling a 6 pack of beer the 80s is the best
That’s where you goofed
Ye gotta focus when driving that otherwise you’ll GOOF
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I got to see that truck in person at a truck pull in Pontiac, MI. I remember my dad taking me to the old Pontiac Silverdome for the event as a birthday present. It was incredible to see live!
Truly the original badass.
Those were fun days.
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Remember when I was seven year's old brings back memories
Jim Kramer, first man to ever ghost ride the whip.
That yellow and green Dodge was money dude!
Ghost riding the whip started a long time earlier then I realised!
this monster truck are so big, that's hard to drive, respect bro
i like your video it was awesome and it was coll big foot
Now that's what I'd expect Bigfoot to look like!!!!
Kingdome in Seattle WA... I grew up watching the Mariners and Seahawks as well as monster trucks in this stadium... Good times to be a kid..
But ugly as sin lol
How many bodies did bigfoot 5 have? I've never seen it with the late 70s body on it, mostly the mid 80s style body or 87+ body.
Oh and yeah... Jim Kramer put on a show! I'm sure nowadays sanctioning bodies would allow such a cool show!!
I stood under that truck with the late 80s early 90s body equipped. It's freaking huge
This isn't a cage with body. This is an actual solid body truck.
@@vonjager When he opens the door it looks like the stock truck interior/bench seat, whore house red inside lol.
There’s a video on YT that has Bob Chandler on it. He goes through the entire BF fleet and talks about each of them. If I remember right, this truck was one of the last BF’s to feature a modified factory truck frame.
I think 6 was the first one to feature the custom built, tube chassis design. Could be wrong though, just telling it as I remember it.
@@aaronbays4 it is stock grew up with this truck lived next door to it the body is stock the tires come from a wwII vehicle called the arctic train
That looks like the truck they used in the Bigfoot arcade game for Nintendo. I miss and love that game.
Am I the only one who wants to see Bigfoot go muddling?
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Bob, the first mfer to ghost ride a whip.
80's monster truck is the best.
I live 3 minutes from where the Silverdome use to be all my life. I still remember being 3 or 4 driving my Big Foot power wheel. wanting to be like the real Big Foot and it was for reasons like this
I also lived by there. As a kid we would always go to the monster truck shows. Even if you didn’t go you could still hear it because the Silverdome acted like a big speaker. I ended up working there when I was 15 years old. It’s a shame what they did with that stadium
Who else was n the Bigfoot fanclub in the 80s???
Jimmy Kramer was fearless!
I want monster jam to bring Back Bigfoot that truck would give us so much nostalgia
Bigfoot tours with hot wheels monster trucks live.
Bigfoot would have to give up ownership of the truck
Man, monster trucks have come a long way in the past 35 years
I was there. He said they call that gear, chug. He could have pulled that sled all over down town. Hot Stuff jeep was there and if I remember right, beat Jim racing. Jeff Bainter is a friend of mine and one of the best. Jim is probably my favorite original truck drivers
When I was a kid I would call every monster truck “Bigfoot truck” 🥲
Being a kid in the 80s was the best.
I love this truck. The biggest tires I have ever seen on a truck!!!!
My god Bigfoot was my favorite when I was little
This is awesome
Me encantan los carros soy muy fan agan más videos de estos
The 80's ruled!
Thanks for sharing.
Quick somebody build a time machine and drop me off in the 80s. I want to go back.
He’s ghostriding that whip
The wonderful excess days of the 1970s and 80s with those massive V8s. Do they still hold these events now?
Super awesome. I have a picture from my sister and I were little.sitting in the rim of the OG Bigfoot
THE TIRES ARE BIGGER THAT THE TRUCK!!!!!!!!!! Good gracious!!
This is proof everything including Monster Trucks was better in the 80's!
The amount of power needed to turn those big wheels. And a very strong drive train.
It has several gear reductions
A transmission chain to the transfer case
The transfer case
And the planetary hubs
That was pretty cool
Looks better with the body over the tires, rather than way low when it first came out.👍🏻👍🏻
Back when it was popular I had a road legal 78 GMC Side Step with 1200 20" split rims off an 18 wheeler on it (42" or 44" tall) but only 8" wide, I had it licensed as heavy truck :) ......... AND I still own the bigfoot " 4X4X4 " owners choice license plates too ... but the truck is long gone :(
I remember getting my picture taken with my standing inside the rims of that down in Indiana
Little late to the party, but I have a picture of myself in the rims when it was shown at tri state speedway in haubstadt indiana.
Man them tires are big as heck!
I sat in the wheel of that truck and got the dude autograph
Ahh the good ol days, all the health and safety nutters would be losing their shit if this went on today. Monster jam participants are strapped in tighter than a feckin astronaut busting through the atmosphere haha.
You wouldn't be saying that if you were the one strapped in
Yeah, god forbid they make sure nobody dies
*Bursting
Well, Grave Digger doing a back flip is still impressive, even if the driver is strapped in his seat.
3X the speed though. They need it.
I suspect many people were conceived the same nights as monster truck shows in the 80s.
dam I miss those days at the silver dome ..... best entertainment for 15 bucks oh hell yeah LOL
Talk about dangerous. He misses a jump and that thing crushes him
That’s why they don’t do stunts with it
Those wheels can *CRUSH!*
Fun fact: Bigfoot was the first ever Monster Truck built pefore Monster Jam was formed!
It was the first ever built period
Bigfoot 5 was also shown with 4 dual tires, but I only found one video of maybe two seconds showing it moving. :-)
Wish I was alive to see this live! But I wasn't established for another 3 Years! :) 😎
It’s still driving today it’s Bigfoot 5
Big Foot, Hulk Hogan, and Ghostbusters! Those were the 1980s!!!!
I saw this truck at an amusement park now, I wondered about it but hell there it is!
2 different trucks
And when you get home, you have to take a broom stick and pick the smart cars out of the treads.
lol nice
That’s crazy this one is actually a real truck
The father of all bigfoot😂
thats BIG BOI
Gotta love a ford big block!
I wonder how many people dont know that back then these actually were pickup trucks.
Today they're all just tube rollcage frame overgrown quads with fiberglass bodies...
Crazystuffyousee
True. Very true.
The thing that I loved when watching these trucks as a kid is when the monster trucks were done they had the mud drags with all kinds of weird creations. The paddle tires just made the mud buggies and jeeps look cooler. :)
Xzibit's wishing he had rims that big.
The fact that the announcer comments on the 470 cubic inch engine shows you just how old this video is.
470 cubic inch is child's play by today's standards
I had a Bigfoot VHS tape as a kid and wore it out!
Nice video truck monster 👍😁
That is ridiculously awesome
Ah the good ol days when everybody enjoyed Motorsports
I once sat in Bigfoots wheel well when it visited Walmart in the mid 80s. It could of been the real truck in those days..an actual numbered truck. I'm only 80 miles from St Louis. Where Bigfoot was born and bred..
Come back to monster jam as i miss this truck
DAM LOVE THAT TRUCK I WANT ONE
Grave Digger and Bigfoot are the two monster trucks that have shaped Monster Jam into what it is today.
No just grave digger
Bigfoot left cause monster jam wanted to buy the truck or else they would kick them out
They black listed Bigfoot
Damn... I've never seen tires this big!!
so f'ing dangerous lol. gotta love the 80's.
Made men outta boys👍
Dude ghost rided the whip 🚀
"Inches by hour"... but is brutal and beautiful.