The tire walk, one of the great automotive stunts of all time

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.

@javieravila9714

2 жыл бұрын

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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.

@79tazman

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@chucksherron

5 жыл бұрын

Those are snow train wheels.

@cirrustate8674

4 жыл бұрын

It pretty much was a novelty. Hell, monster trucks in general are a novelty, and this one is a novelty of novelties.

@kellypg

4 жыл бұрын

@Jeremy Backman no. A US army vehicle for moving heavy loads through Alaska

@manga12

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@adamatkinson2728

4 жыл бұрын

@@manga12 *LeTourneau

Monster truck jams....muscle cars.... classic heavy metal....big hair....all time favourite fashions 80s was the best ❤️

The 80's was such a great decade.

@KandiKlover

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah great boomboxes, music, radios, computers, technology. Everything looked and sounded so badass. Quality made with style.

@BrandonJay1983

5 жыл бұрын

@@KandiKlover Proud 80's Baby ! l,mao

@davespringer777

5 жыл бұрын

Bigfoot, Arnold, Stallone, Hulk Hogan, music was high energy fun. Everything felt a little bigger.

@dumdum7786

5 жыл бұрын

Same as any other decade in my opinion... well obviously different, but we didn't see it any different back then.

@SweetFLGuy1

5 жыл бұрын

@@KandiKlover Yep especially the great quality and much more powerful, louder home and car stereo systems in the 80's.

I remember having a VHS tape with nothing but big foot. I was like 4 years old

@meanodustino9563

3 жыл бұрын

Had the same tape. Loved it as a kid

@benjamins9121

3 жыл бұрын

@@meanodustino9563 As did I! I wore that tape flat out

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.

I love the showmanship!

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.

Fun fact: Bigfoot was the first ever Monster Truck built pefore Monster Jam was formed!

@Leatherface123.

3 жыл бұрын

It was the first ever built period

You guys should really put that body style back on 5. I love that thing.

@Leatherface123.

3 жыл бұрын

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

Bigfoot is my favorite monster truck ever

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??

Nothing beats a classic

0:10 Does the slow roll up, flashbulbs goin off, people absolutely losin' their minds. Awesome.

@idaliaquinones9039

3 жыл бұрын

Iikh

Its a pleasure to see all the classic 80's ford bronko tow trucks and the flatbeds.

Those were fun days.

@naufalar3214

4 жыл бұрын

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@Ziwamasawd

3 жыл бұрын

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@elmo7659

3 жыл бұрын

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Without BigFoot We wouldn't have Monster Trucks

So thats were ghost riding the whip come from lol.. That was dope👍👍

@2pacalivesm

4 жыл бұрын

H ell yeah

@kevincarmack581

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah millennials think they're so original, they're just copycats and don't even realize it

Thanks to my uncle I've had the pleasure of standing beside those tires when I was a kid in the '80s!

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

Jim Kramer, first man to ever ghost ride the whip.

i like your video it was awesome and it was coll big foot

Big Foot and Grave Digger. those were the days

@bruhmoment7369

4 жыл бұрын

Grave digger was my favorite one

@knightwolf2489

4 жыл бұрын

What about max d

@joseanponce4603

4 жыл бұрын

Knightwolf 248 max d wasn’t invented in the 1980’s

@dontreadmynamepls936

4 жыл бұрын

DIN NER Grave Digger

@sliverfox3627

4 жыл бұрын

@@knightwolf2489 he's cool but I haven't seen him in a while

Truly the original badass.

The monster truck of all monster trucks

Am I the only one who wants to see Bigfoot go muddling?

@bigfoot4x4

4 жыл бұрын

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Now that's what I'd expect Bigfoot to look like!!!!

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

That yellow and green Dodge was money dude!

What an awesome truck!!! 10 feet tall tundra tyres!!! The 80s was the best decade for so many things.

This thing is pulling a 6 pack of beer the 80s is the best

@Leatherface123.

4 жыл бұрын

That’s where you goofed Ye gotta focus when driving that otherwise you’ll GOOF

@germanarias258

3 жыл бұрын

Y

this monster truck are so big, that's hard to drive, respect bro

That looks like the truck they used in the Bigfoot arcade game for Nintendo. I miss and love that game.

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!

He’s ghostriding that whip

The 80's ruled!

Who else was n the Bigfoot fanclub in the 80s???

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..

@blueblur6447

5 жыл бұрын

But ugly as sin lol

Bob, the first mfer to ghost ride a whip.

When I was a kid I would call every monster truck “Bigfoot truck” 🥲

The wonderful excess days of the 1970s and 80s with those massive V8s. Do they still hold these events now?

Such a great truck. I'm glad it's still here!

Man I sure miss them days of truck pulls ,my favorite 2wd truck was Orange blossom 👍🏾👍🏾

Quick somebody build a time machine and drop me off in the 80s. I want to go back.

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 want monster jam to bring Back Bigfoot that truck would give us so much nostalgia

@deluxeg

3 жыл бұрын

Bigfoot tours with hot wheels monster trucks live.

@Leatherface123.

3 жыл бұрын

Bigfoot would have to give up ownership of the truck

This is awesome

@laurateque1496

5 жыл бұрын

Me encantan los carros soy muy fan agan más videos de estos

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!!

@alexandercurtis4427

5 жыл бұрын

I stood under that truck with the late 80s early 90s body equipped. It's freaking huge

@vonjager

5 жыл бұрын

This isn't a cage with body. This is an actual solid body truck.

@aaronbays4

5 жыл бұрын

@@vonjager When he opens the door it looks like the stock truck interior/bench seat, whore house red inside lol.

@vtwinbuilder3129

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@joshuamcmahon9836

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

This came to my home town 4 years ago and I remember standing in the tires with VIP access and they are sooo big

Remember when I was seven year's old brings back memories

Jimmy Kramer was fearless!

Ghost riding the whip started a long time earlier then I realised!

Talk about dangerous. He misses a jump and that thing crushes him

@Leatherface123.

3 жыл бұрын

That’s why they don’t do stunts with it

Thanks for sharing.

80's monster truck is the best.

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 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

@therarebreeds77therarebree7

Жыл бұрын

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

Being a kid in the 80s was the best.

Man them tires are big as heck!

THE TIRES ARE BIGGER THAT THE TRUCK!!!!!!!!!! Good gracious!!

Man, monster trucks have come a long way in the past 35 years

My god Bigfoot was my favorite when I was little

And when you get home, you have to take a broom stick and pick the smart cars out of the treads.

@MikeC-ps1tc

3 жыл бұрын

lol nice

That was pretty cool

That is ridiculously awesome

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...

@bd8026

5 жыл бұрын

Crazystuffyousee True. Very true.

@Slane583

5 жыл бұрын

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. :)

dam I miss those days at the silver dome ..... best entertainment for 15 bucks oh hell yeah LOL

I love this truck. The biggest tires I have ever seen on a truck!!!!

I suspect many people were conceived the same nights as monster truck shows in the 80s.

This is proof everything including Monster Trucks was better in the 80's!

Bigfoot 5 was also shown with 4 dual tires, but I only found one video of maybe two seconds showing it moving. :-)

The amount of power needed to turn those big wheels. And a very strong drive train.

@Leatherface123.

Жыл бұрын

It has several gear reductions A transmission chain to the transfer case The transfer case And the planetary hubs

Looks better with the body over the tires, rather than way low when it first came out.👍🏻👍🏻

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.

@bucktoothbill5334

5 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't be saying that if you were the one strapped in

@rilem1510

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, god forbid they make sure nobody dies

@DaddysFastestSwimmer

4 жыл бұрын

*Bursting

@jayive34

4 жыл бұрын

Well, Grave Digger doing a back flip is still impressive, even if the driver is strapped in his seat.

@ztwntyn8

3 жыл бұрын

3X the speed though. They need it.

Jim Kramer had no fear

so f'ing dangerous lol. gotta love the 80's.

@kevincarmack581

4 жыл бұрын

Made men outta boys👍

Gotta love a ford big block!

I remember getting my picture taken with my standing inside the rims of that down in Indiana

@korn20102001

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Super awesome. I have a picture from my sister and I were little.sitting in the rim of the OG Bigfoot

The father of all bigfoot😂

Ah the good ol days when everybody enjoyed Motorsports

omg, super monster truck bigfoot cashes everythings

My child hood hero

I sat in the wheel of that truck and got the dude autograph

Good old days...

thats BIG BOI

DAM LOVE THAT TRUCK I WANT ONE

INCREDIBLE

Damn... I've never seen tires this big!!

Those wheels can *CRUSH!*

I miss the 80's, damn it

That truck rests at my hometown grocery store now lol

Xzibit's wishing he had rims that big.

Big Foot, Hulk Hogan, and Ghostbusters! Those were the 1980s!!!!

"The real Bigfoot"

@celticluna1691

2 жыл бұрын

The only big foot that matters

i pulled up infront of that once (I live near where it's parked) and then woke my kid up....I'm just fulfilling my fatherly duties.

@magicelkiller

3 жыл бұрын

Where is located

@Meatsweats_o_O

3 жыл бұрын

@@magicelkiller Pacific MO, Near St. Louis.

Listen to that 460

Just gonna take this to the house, by yall! Lmao