A little history of Rollin Thunder before I start the build

[@HaydadRC]

A little history on the 1:1 is always awesome!
👍😊

[@BangForYourBuckRc]

Thanks for sharing that awesome piece and photos of monster truck history! Well done!👍🏻😃

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Thought I’d share a bit of what I found on the inter web, thanks for watching 😁

[@G9RCCar]

Rollin Thunder. fantastic

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Thanks buddy, it’s a piece of monster truck history 😁

[@BinxTigJoe]

That was one cool history lesson 👍👍🤘🤘

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Being an 80’s kid I love the original monster trucks. Thanks for watching

[@ThompsonRc]

Awesome video on rolling thunder

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it 😁

[@robsrcinsanity1220]

Cool stuff bro! Thanks 👍🏻🍻

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Thanks for watching brother

[@robsrcinsanity1220]

@@IowaBudgetRCBashers Always bro!

[@mattiasrc]

Awesome project, thanks for sharing some great photos and info about the real truck.

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Thanks for watching, I thought I’d share a little history lesson on the Rollin Thunder. Rumor is that it was a Tamiya engineer who bought this and the Frankenstein trucks to base the kits off of 😁

[@rctamiyaaddict4687]

Great video, just added a Lunch Box to my collection.

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

They’re so much fun.

[@flyingfortressrc1794]

That's going to be sweet Thad.
Great old time capsule pics of an iconic beast.

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

It got its own vintage chassis
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[@keithsmodelsandrcs6593]

exciting great plans cool 1 to 1 pics looked great on browny orange color in swamp and arena pic man they look cool

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

I miss these days of real monster trucks. Back when it was a bunch of good ol boys with a welder and some enginuity .. sure today’s monster trucks can do back flips and things these could never do but these were real trucks, not fiberglass and tubes

[@keithsmodelsandrcs6593]

@@IowaBudgetRCBashers I only ever seen on tv weekends as kid I loved it was crazy

[@islandrc-duke1972]

cool history and video

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

That was really impressive!! I lived in New York at that time. I missed the birth of honest, REAL Monster Trucks!!
I did have the opportunity to watch Tom Meents build his, when I lived in Paxton, IL, but that wS already a tube Chassis/Fibreglass Body....
You were there at Genesis, and that's COOL!! 😎

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

And a DETROIT DIESEL!! Awesome 👌

[@3dman875]

Cool video thanks for the information about it

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Thanks for watching Fred

[@retroshack7897]

Jim Oldaker’s Rollin Thunder was an awesome monster truck (van), I remember watching it on “Battle of the monster trucks” (VHS) back in the 80s, sadly the monster truck scene never really made it to the U.K.

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

I was fortunate enough to see Rollin Thunder and many others of the original monster trucks back in the mid to late 80’s. I’ll never forget them and they influence my RC builds 😁 you’ve now got a surge of the modern monster trucks in the uk at least.

[@retroshack7897]

@@IowaBudgetRCBashers The original monster trucks really were in a league of their own, mainly because they were often real custom trucks / vans that had been mounted on top of a monster chassis.
From recollection there was even a monster Vette! Todays monster trucks are awesome in their own right but I still love the classics!…. I guess Tamiya’s Lunchbox is now also a classic! 👍

[@m.ramadhan5196]

L5👍
Excellent video

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Thanks my friend, hope ya liked my history lesson 😁

[@jde9095]

Very cool

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Thanks for the sub.. glad you enjoyed a trip down monster truck memory lane

[@jamesnoble3502]

Apparently Jim Oldaker sold the truck to someone in Japan after he was done with it so it makes sense Tamiya used it as a base for the LB.
The original Samson monster truck was what the Clod Buster was modeled after

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Yeah legend has it that a Tamiya exec bought it. From what I read Tamiya took inspiration from Sampson and Excaliber to create the clodbuster. And midnight pumpkin was based off of Darryl Starbird’s Frankenstein

[@jgminiaturas8319]

Brasil🚙👍

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Welcome my friend

[@minetiago1763]

after rollin' thunder's last show in japan the truck was sold and got repurposed as osaka crusher. currently truck's wherabouts are unknown but its believed that the truck was maybe scrapped

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Rumor has it that a Tamiya executive bought it and used it as the foundation for the lunchbox, and then supposedly it got scrapped..

[@jacobgaskell9195]

Hi, what colour orange have you used?

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

@jacobgaskell9195 I used the Tamiya orange. Original color of the truck was Hemi orange or go mango