Feels like 1991 was a transition year in monster truck evolution. The trucks were half old style, half new style. The tracks weren't really all that great yet. They finally figured them out around 93 and 94. A lot of trucks couldn't make those gaps between the cars.
A lot of the trucks that couldn't quite make the gaps were the old leaf spring style trucks, reason being is after coming over the first set of cars the old leafers would bounce around like crazy, causing them to lose a lot of momentum. 91 was a year a lot of trucks were transitioning over to the newer coil over style and newer chassis, all thanks to Big Foots 1990 season where I believe Bigfoot 8 was disqualified and banned through the season cause Bob had it set up with the newer nitrogen style shocks and the cantilever style rear suspension setup, it made Bigfoot a heck of a lot faster since it was able to absorb a lot of the impacts from landing and keep his wheels planted better after landing. The Coil over style was good too but not as good as Bigfoots cantilever and nitrogen at the time and is why aside from the massive amount of horsepower Bigfoot was so dominant. A lot of the drivers during the 90-91 season complained about Bigfoot cause a lot of the guys were still running the old leafer chassis and they complained how they couldn't afford to put so much into building new trucks and doing the level of research like Bob Chandler was able to, so for the 1990 season the NHRA banned Bigfoot while those who could upgrade their trucks did to be able to compete against Bigfoot on a level playing field. Andy Brass would be able to compete at one event the Luiseville 1990 event but he had to drive the old Bigfoot #4 truck cause it was still a leafsprung truck at that time.
The 10 Trucks I always got excited to see as a kid: 1. Grave Digger 2. Bigfoot 3. Bear Foot 4. Snake Bite 5. Carolina Crusher 6. Torus 7. Equalizer 8. Invader 9. First Blood (Most cause of Monster Wars lol) 10. Predator Honorable Mentions: Tropic Thunder UFO Bearly Tame Nightmare Executioner Boogie Van Black Stallion WCW Stinger Nightlife Overkill Rampage California Kid Mopar Thunder
I think each corresponding version of Bearfoot was actually more powerful than Bigfoot. If you raced this Chevrolet Bearfoot against Bigfoot 8 in a flat drag race, it would win. If you raced the 1996 Dodge Ram Bearfoot against Bigfoot 14 in a flat drag race, it would win too. The difference is the Bigfoot trucks handled way better, and probably had better drivers, so it produced much better results by being consistent.
@@stanleychiu7594 Andy Brass and Jim Kramer were far better drivers. I remember this one event in 1991 that Kramer was destroying everyone because he was turning it like a sprint car.
1991 4-Wheel & Off Road Jamboree Penda Points (Hypothetical Standings) after TV/YT Race 4: 1 Bigfoot - Andy Brass 32 2 Taurus - Jack Willman/Jackie Willman Jr. 22 3 Carolina Crusher - Gary Porter 21 4 Bearfoot - Fred Shafer 17 5 Auto Value King Krunch - Scott Stephens 12 6 Night Life - Wayne Smozanek 10 7 Snake Bite - Gene Patterson 9 8 No Problem - John Moore 6 9 Nitemare - Steve Hess 4 10 Wild Thing - Jim Booker 3 11 Micro Machines - Jon Breen 2 Bad Medicine - Don Van Loo 2 Black Stallion - Mike Vaters 2 USA-1 - Steve Wilke 2 Above & Beyond - Pat Suma 2 16 Equalizer - Greg Holbrook 1 Big Boss - Mark Hall 1 Kimosabe - Jack Brady 1
Was that King Krunch crash the cause of the truck going to left so much? Cause everytime after this event, this truck lands hard it turns to the left very easily like it's nothing.
If there was a Penda series race at Bloomsburg I was almost certainly there. It's nice to be able to go back and watch these races again.
More and more wild action, enjoyed...
Above & Beyond, very cool.
Feels like 1991 was a transition year in monster truck evolution. The trucks were half old style, half new style. The tracks weren't really all that great yet. They finally figured them out around 93 and 94. A lot of trucks couldn't make those gaps between the cars.
A lot of the trucks that couldn't quite make the gaps were the old leaf spring style trucks, reason being is after coming over the first set of cars the old leafers would bounce around like crazy, causing them to lose a lot of momentum. 91 was a year a lot of trucks were transitioning over to the newer coil over style and newer chassis, all thanks to Big Foots 1990 season where I believe Bigfoot 8 was disqualified and banned through the season cause Bob had it set up with the newer nitrogen style shocks and the cantilever style rear suspension setup, it made Bigfoot a heck of a lot faster since it was able to absorb a lot of the impacts from landing and keep his wheels planted better after landing. The Coil over style was good too but not as good as Bigfoots cantilever and nitrogen at the time and is why aside from the massive amount of horsepower Bigfoot was so dominant. A lot of the drivers during the 90-91 season complained about Bigfoot cause a lot of the guys were still running the old leafer chassis and they complained how they couldn't afford to put so much into building new trucks and doing the level of research like Bob Chandler was able to, so for the 1990 season the NHRA banned Bigfoot while those who could upgrade their trucks did to be able to compete against Bigfoot on a level playing field. Andy Brass would be able to compete at one event the Luiseville 1990 event but he had to drive the old Bigfoot #4 truck cause it was still a leafsprung truck at that time.
11:06 Two spectacular things happened in this race.
1.King Krunch's crash
2.The power and air that Bear Foot had 😍
some guy in an ambulance/Savage318 lol bear foot hit that second gear and flew!
The 10 Trucks I always got excited to see as a kid:
1. Grave Digger
2. Bigfoot
3. Bear Foot
4. Snake Bite
5. Carolina Crusher
6. Torus
7. Equalizer
8. Invader
9. First Blood (Most cause of Monster Wars lol)
10. Predator
Honorable Mentions:
Tropic Thunder
UFO
Bearly Tame
Nightmare
Executioner
Boogie Van
Black Stallion
WCW Stinger
Nightlife
Overkill
Rampage
California Kid
Mopar Thunder
1991, ahh the good ol' days
That Chevy Bearfoot was something else. Great final.
Who was driving Snakebite?
Gene Paterson. It was Bigfoot 4.
17:08 on WoW I remember watching this and so excited bc Dad was gm and grandpa... so me lol
Bearfoot was probably the fastest monster truck ever made, way ahead of his time
not faster than Bigfoot
I think each corresponding version of Bearfoot was actually more powerful than Bigfoot.
If you raced this Chevrolet Bearfoot against Bigfoot 8 in a flat drag race, it would win. If you raced the 1996 Dodge Ram Bearfoot against Bigfoot 14 in a flat drag race, it would win too.
The difference is the Bigfoot trucks handled way better, and probably had better drivers, so it produced much better results by being consistent.
@@stanleychiu7594 Andy Brass and Jim Kramer were far better drivers. I remember this one event in 1991 that Kramer was destroying everyone because he was turning it like a sprint car.
1991 4-Wheel & Off Road Jamboree Penda Points (Hypothetical Standings) after TV/YT Race 4:
1 Bigfoot - Andy Brass 32
2 Taurus - Jack Willman/Jackie Willman Jr. 22
3 Carolina Crusher - Gary Porter 21
4 Bearfoot - Fred Shafer 17
5 Auto Value King Krunch - Scott Stephens 12
6 Night Life - Wayne Smozanek 10
7 Snake Bite - Gene Patterson 9
8 No Problem - John Moore 6
9 Nitemare - Steve Hess 4
10 Wild Thing - Jim Booker 3
11 Micro Machines - Jon Breen 2
Bad Medicine - Don Van Loo 2
Black Stallion - Mike Vaters 2
USA-1 - Steve Wilke 2
Above & Beyond - Pat Suma 2
16 Equalizer - Greg Holbrook 1
Big Boss - Mark Hall 1
Kimosabe - Jack Brady 1
Now I’m to the end and always loved Gary too... no homo
I thunk foot mainly beat NP from holeshot. Surprising.
Wow fhe annihilates that role cage and then runs it. Can't imagine that happening now. Oh the good ole days
Anyone still have garbagepail kids
Oh! Problem for Scott Stephens he is Up Side Down. that truck is really Hurt
Fred Shaffer was always nuts, just absolutely pinned in that king krunch race
A nice humble guy with no fear.
He always got the best air, and even full wheelies thru the entire damn race, he was epic!
Was that King Krunch crash the cause of the truck going to left so much? Cause everytime after this event, this truck lands hard it turns to the left very easily like it's nothing.
Moskau Productions Taurus purposely had his truck nose to the left.
21:05 "....Damon Bradshaw..."
*raises finger*
*smacks lips*
"Ok" 👌
King Krunch Crashed In Round 2 Against Fred Shafer In Bear Foot