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 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!
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
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 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
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
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.
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 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. :)
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 back in 1998 seeing this retired Bigfoot truck with those same gigantic wheels sitting outside a car theme restaurant on display near Orlando Disney World close by the busy I-4 interstate. I'm 6 feet 2" tall and I could almost stand straight up inside those white hub wheels while my ex wife snapped some pictures using a disposable throw away camera before digital cameras and smart phones was available to the public.
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..
Back in the good days they advertise beer people in the stands were probably smoking and this truck was built with hard earned cash not your daddy co signing for your power stroke so you can roll coal on your friends face
Not sure how Bob Chandler got his money but daddy co signing on loans, or outright paying for it, is how many people have gotten started. It's been that way forever.
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
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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The tire walk, one of the great automotive stunts of all time
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.
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 ❤️
Without BigFoot
We wouldn't have Monster Trucks
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.
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.
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.
Thanks to my uncle I've had the pleasure of standing beside those tires when I was a kid in the '80s!
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
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Does the slow roll up, flashbulbs goin off, people absolutely losin' their minds. Awesome.
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Nothing beats a classic
I love the showmanship!
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!
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
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
@@knightwolf2489 he's cool but I haven't seen him in a while
@@knightwolf2489 bro Max D was bad ass i think his freestyles were better then grave diggers tho
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
Those were fun days.
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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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this monster truck are so big, that's hard to drive, respect bro
Jim Kramer, first man to ever ghost ride the whip.
The wonderful excess days of the 1970s and 80s with those massive V8s. Do they still hold these events now?
My favorite monster truck of all time. Bigfoot ‘5’
Truly the original badass.
Man I sure miss them days of truck pulls ,my favorite 2wd truck was Orange blossom 👍🏾👍🏾
Man, monster trucks have come a long way in the past 35 years
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
That yellow and green Dodge was money dude!
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
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
This came to my home town 4 years ago and I remember standing in the tires with VIP access and they are sooo big
Now that's what I'd expect Bigfoot to look like!!!!
The monster truck of all monster trucks
Remember when I was seven year's old brings back memories
Such a great truck. I'm glad it's still here!
Bob, the first mfer to ghost ride a whip.
Being a kid in the 80s was the best.
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
That looks like the truck they used in the Bigfoot arcade game for Nintendo. I miss and love that game.
When I was a kid I would call every monster truck “Bigfoot truck” 🥲
i like your video it was awesome and it was coll big foot
Quick somebody build a time machine and drop me off in the 80s. I want to go back.
Am I the only one who wants to see Bigfoot go muddling?
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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
This is proof everything including Monster Trucks was better in the 80's!
Ghost riding the whip started a long time earlier then I realised!
Who else was n the Bigfoot fanclub in the 80s???
80's monster truck is the best.
Bigfoot 5 was also shown with 4 dual tires, but I only found one video of maybe two seconds showing it moving. :-)
This is awesome
Me encantan los carros soy muy fan agan más videos de estos
Looks better with the body over the tires, rather than way low when it first came out.👍🏻👍🏻
Super awesome. I have a picture from my sister and I were little.sitting in the rim of the OG Bigfoot
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.
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
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
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. :)
Fun fact: Bigfoot was the first ever Monster Truck built pefore Monster Jam was formed!
It was the first ever built period
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 :(
My god Bigfoot was my favorite when I was little
dam I miss those days at the silver dome ..... best entertainment for 15 bucks oh hell yeah LOL
thats BIG BOI
I love this truck. The biggest tires I have ever seen on a truck!!!!
The 80's ruled!
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
Man them tires are big as heck!
Thanks for sharing.
so f'ing dangerous lol. gotta love the 80's.
Made men outta boys👍
Jimmy Kramer was fearless!
THE TIRES ARE BIGGER THAT THE TRUCK!!!!!!!!!! Good gracious!!
Super
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
He’s ghostriding that whip
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.
The father of all bigfoot😂
Nice video truck monster 👍😁
Talk about dangerous. He misses a jump and that thing crushes him
That’s why they don’t do stunts with it
Come back to monster jam as i miss this truck
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
That was pretty cool
I had a Bigfoot VHS tape as a kid and wore it out!
Ah the good ol days when everybody enjoyed Motorsports
omg, super monster truck bigfoot cashes everythings
I remember back in 1998 seeing this retired Bigfoot truck with those same gigantic wheels sitting outside a car theme restaurant on display near Orlando Disney World close by the busy I-4 interstate. I'm 6 feet 2" tall and I could almost stand straight up inside those white hub wheels while my ex wife snapped some pictures using a disposable throw away camera before digital cameras and smart phones was available to the public.
That’s not the same truck
That’s Bigfoot 7 a statue that was converted to be a twin to this for display look it up on google to know what happened
That is ridiculously awesome
I suspect many people were conceived the same nights as monster truck shows in the 80s.
I miss the 80's, damn it
Bigfoot is my favorite monster truck ever
That’s crazy this one is actually a real truck
Gotta love a ford big block!
you have such interesting films!
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..
And when you get home, you have to take a broom stick and pick the smart cars out of the treads.
lol nice
Back in the good days they advertise beer people in the stands were probably smoking and this truck was built with hard earned cash not your daddy co signing for your power stroke so you can roll coal on your friends face
Not sure how Bob Chandler got his money but daddy co signing on loans, or outright paying for it, is how many people have gotten started. It's been that way forever.
I sat in the wheel of that truck and got the dude autograph