In the late-1980s, a new type of vehicle entered monster truck events, the monster tank. These vehicles are typically military tanks or personnel carriers, upgraded with bigger engines & street-vehicle bodies. This is a compilation featuring some of the best of the monster tanks.
Music: "Are You Ready" - AC/DC
From the "Monster Trucks in the 1980s" series comes this special edition video... see all your favourite monster trucks from the '80s in their original sound.
Here's a video I put together, featuring video of various monster trucks from the 1980s.
Notice - Due to copyright issues, the song previously in this video, "Rock You Like A Hurricane," by the Scorpions, has been replaced with "Sermon" - Drowning Pool, via the YouTube AudioSwap feature.
A compilation of some of the wildest crashes, wrecks, and rollovers from the PENDA Monster Truck Racing Series.
Music:
"Survival of the Sickest" - Saliva
Hot Stuff (Jeff Bainter) takes on Predator (Alan Pezo) in the final round of competition at the 1988 USHRA "Battle of the Monster Trucks" event in the Pontiac Silverdome.
Another compilation from back in the days when monster trucks ran full-steel bodies & leaf springs... Monster Trucks in the 1980s - Part 6
Music: "Back in the Day" - Megadeth
Part 7 of the Monster Trucks in the 1980s series... more footage of monster trucks racing, crushing, and crashing in the 1980s.
Music: "We Will Rock You" - Warrant
Blacksmith (Pablo Huffaker) racing Blue Thunder (Lyle Hancock) in the second round of competition at the Monster Jam World Finals 2, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pablo finished this race with a wild cartwheel-flip, landing on top of the wall at the end of the track.