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Ken Block's Gymkhana videos are proof of the amazing tributes to hoonage that can be created when you have a full race team, a professional camera crew and plenty of money from your sponsors to throw around. We're pretty sure this Polish hoon fest was created without any of these things, but it came out pretty cool anyways. More »
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Owners of Ford and Chevy trucks have spent at least 300 years fighting over who builds the best hauler. We may have a definitive answer in the form of this awesome brown Ford truck literally tearing his friend's Chevy limb-from-limb until the frame is ripped from the suspension and the whole thing flips over. More »
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The family of the 23-year-old woman crushed and killed by a drunk driver in a monster truck outside of a Dallas strip club last month is suing the cage fight-managing truck's owner, the driver, the strip club's managers, and the strip club itself over the death. More »
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What you're witnessing is the first ever back-flip from Son-uva Digger's Ryan Anderson, who as the name would imply, is the son of Dennis Anderson, the guy behind the original Grave Digger. It's like Baryshnikov for hillbillies. More »
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In this excellent flashback from 1990, the monster truck "King Kong" flips over, catches fire, and destroys two brand-new police cars before the driver gets out unharmed. Warning: This video contains 1990 9c1 Caprice destruction content. (Hat Tip to CrabSpirits!) More »
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Joe Sylvester, 26, wants to break the 202-foot long jump record for monster trucks set by Bigfoot in 1999. On Tuesday, he took a practice jump of half the distance, but generated about twice the altitude he needed. Gravity sucks. More »
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We entered a period of extended mental paralysis after first seeing this picture. First, chocolate-covered bacon on a stick. Second, Monster truck smashing circle-track racer. Finally, American flag. Daytona's Sports Bar in Des Moines, Iowa, you're awesome. [Imgur via Reddit] More »
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Ever wish you had the ruthless power of a full-sized monster truck in a size scaled for garage storage? This guy did. So he built one and there's nothing sane about it. More »
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Rhys Millen's failed Vegas back flip has us pining for more, so we wholeheartedly thank this monster truck daredevil for stepping up to the plate, giving us what we've so desperately craved. More »
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Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Today we have a couple of projects that defy easy categorization. More »
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When you're in Tennessee and you have a Fiat X-1/9 parked next to a Ford F350, what do you do? Why, you combine them, of course! This 351M-powered creation needs some work to be a reliable daily driver (the brakes don't work, the fuel is kept in an old air tank, the engine runs badly because it's "cold natured" and so on), but the seller makes it clear that this Monster X-1/350 is a "real head turner." We'd have to agree with that statement, and (given that $1,001 didn't meet the reserve price) we think it should be possible to make an offer this guy won't refuse. Thanks to Fliffknight and a whole slew of others for this one! More »
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Woo hooo! 11,000 lbs, supercharged, alcohol injected 383 cubic inch V8 good for 1250 horsepower, two and a half ton Rockwell transfer case, and 66" Goodyears. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Aces High. An all steel bodied 1972 El Camino SS which has been transformed in a wheel standing, car crushing, fire breathing (no really, it shoots fire) monster. It holds the record for the longest monster truck freestanding wheelie at 700 feet going 45 miles per hour. While an all fiberglass, higher performance version was recently completed and dubbed Shell Camino, the original version is way more in keeping with Maximum El Camino Day in our opinion. Oh, did we mention there's awesome 80's quality video of the beast in action set to the Iron Maiden riff of the same name after the jump? More »
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Where would we be without the mighty English Russia? A world as drab as a Vladivostok sausage-ration line, circa 1958, that's where we'd be without our conduit to brilliant Russian vehicular madness. Take, for example, this 50s-vintage Pobeda converted for not-very-well-paved-road use. You know it's sitting on the chassis of some sort of indestructible Red Army truck. Even El Goatamino cowers in terror before the Monster Pobeda! [English Russia] More »
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Lock up your arsonists. It's Big Red, possibly the world's longest (38') and heaviest (29,960 lbs) monster truck in the world, parked at the corner of 13 Mile and Woodward Avenue for this year's Woodward Dream Cruise. The sign also notes Red is the world's only fully functional monster fire truck, which could prove handy if a blaze ever erupts atop a double row of crushed cars. It's a late-30s vintage International Harvester D series, best known as the platform of the psychedelically painted school bus named "Furthur." That was the groovemobile in which Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters crisscrossed the US in 1964, dropping more acid in a year than the entire student body of UMass did in all of the 1980s. But you won't find Wavy Gravy crashed out in this ladder truck. It's the product of Monster Truck Rides USA and Liberty-1 Motorsports, which reports the massive rig will depart from New York City on September 11, 2007 for Los Angeles on a cross-country fundraising trip for children's charities [Big Red Monster Fire Truck] More »
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The Zaporozhets was generally considered a sub-optimal car for use on heavy snow during the Russian winter. However, give a Russian mechanic any vehicle and he'll do some Field Expedient Engineering that solves the problem! More »
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Whether or not you think the Himalayan abominable snowman is a hoax, this Yeti is as real as getting capped in the nuts by a sock filled with flour. It's the product of master fabricator Rex Bailey, who built the monster Dodge atop 76" tractor tires and Mercedes Unimog axles. As appointed, the Cummins diesel-powered 3500 can power through snow up to three-feet deep. [Thanks to prplhaze for the tip.] – Mike Spinelli More »
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Nothing must've seemed right to UK celebrity Ingrid Tarrant when she took on singer Gary Numan in a monster truck race for a Sky TV series called The Race. We have no clue who Tarrant is, as the only TV we watched while in Europe was CNN International and Starsky and Hutch reruns. Regardless, she's famous enough that they handed her the keys to a monster truck and had her race Numan. While leading she hit a ramp designed to launch her onto some cars at an angle and flipped the vehicle. Luckily, Tarrant is fine, but presumably, Gary won that one. Of course he did. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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The 14th and latest incarnation of the legendary Bigfoot isn't owned by Bob Chandler, the O.G. monster truck guru who kickstarted the genre 30 years ago. It's the property of one Dave Harkey, who does 35 shows a year, driving his own rig and often working on the truck alone. A former circle track racer, Harkey's truck (with teammate Dan Runte at the tiller, holds the world record for the longest monster-truck jump, at 202 feet. Harkey himself owns the title of Longest Wheelie Guy 217 feet although he claims he's gone over 400 in unnofficial circumstances. Eep. More »
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