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The Air Force's latest recruiting tool is a Cadillac Escalade-bodied monster truck designed to look like an A10-C Thunderbolt Warthog, complete with a t-shirt-shooting Gatling gun. Wasteful? Yes. Overbuilt? Yes. Awesome? Oh hell yes. God Bless the U.S. Air Force. More »
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Joel Demos is a Republican from Minnesota running a long-shot campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. House. To raise cash, Demos hand-pulled a monster truck. The truck's name? Jesus. More »
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The legendary "Bigfoot" monster truck has abandoned its Ford F-series body for the first time in favor of Chevy Silverado styling. This is the new Bigfoot. More »
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Jan Gabriel, the Chicago-area motorsport announcer who popularized the phrase "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!", died last week at 69. He got his start as a sock-hop disc jockey and eventually moved into automotive television. Fittingly, he passed on a Sunday. More »
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Because one of them is going to win, and it sure as hell ain't gonna be the fat guy in the diaper. More »
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George Eisenhart Jr., promoter and announcer of the Monster Truck Nationals, was injured and died Saturday night at his Monster Truck show in Wisconsin — the second death in a week involving monster trucks. More »
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Tilt-shift photography can be used for many things, but one of the more interesting is a technique used to trick the mind into thinking very large things are very small. Tilt-shift takes advantage of our familiarity with very close up images of small things, where the object of interest is in focus, but everything else is progressively blurred. Keith Loutit has applied this technique in video form to an indoor monster truck rally and demolition derby event with stunning and awesome results. The full video below in huge format for your viewing pleasure. 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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It's one thing to play with a giant Suburban in the Icelandic wilds, another to go Vannin' in the Russian countryside. But when you're tooling around in the Arctic, a purpose-built truck is in order. That's were Arctic Trucks comes in. They're in the business of modifying vehicles to take the abuse of the far north. They offer modified Toyota's as part of a standard lineup, but they'll trick out whatever truck you bring them. In fact, these are the same trucks Top Gear drove to the North Pole. Super best truck from the land of no rising sun! More »
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Okay, enough pussy-footing around with these bastardized Corvettes. Let's slide some proper monster trucks into the day. Nitro Circus provides what may be the most well- choreographed extreme stunts and general displays of insanity. To make things even better, they set their work to excellent soundtracks. This is a massive multi-level, multi-discipline super stunt, which makes you wince at a few points. We counted four different levels of stunt drivers stacked over each other—five if you include the helicopter. Add AC/DC, throw in The Man trying to disrupt the filming, shake well and that's some seriously spectacular hoonage. Hoonage is performance art, it's a fact. FUll video below the jump. More »
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"We want to ignite a passion for design among American children and also raise money to help families cope with serious illnesses." Thus spake Carroll Shelby, announcing his partnership with Road & Track and the Automotive Fine Arts Society to sponsor the sixth annual Kids Automotive Art Contest, which has been on hiatus since 2002. A modest $5 entry fee will fund Shelby's foundation, which combats children's illnesses worldwide. So, got an aspiring little Chris Bangle or J Mays frolicking about the house? Get them to stop scribbling their budding "form vocabularies" on the living room wall and put 'em to work dreaming up the car or truck they'd drive "when they grow up." The grand prize ain't chump change: a $5000 savings bond. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=349132&view=rss&microfeed=true Why we didn't get around to posting this particular clip sooner is beyond us. "Jesus Built My Hotrod" was seminal just-turned-sixteen, got-an-El Camino-and-questionable-hair cruising music for us. Plus, y'know, Gibby Haynes! Sometimes we feel old. Realizing that this single came out nearly sixteen years ago is one of those times. More »
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Quote the Wrestleman: "Strong Bad doesn't sell out to anybody, man. No matter how monstrous their truck show may or may not be." And neither did Bob Chandler: even our Playskool toy Bigfoot was admirably torquey. Hard to believe but it's been 30 years since Bigfoot's genesis. St. Louis-based Chandler got the bug for making his F-250 4x4 badder than anyone within sight of the Gateway Arch; through him, the modern monster truck was born. Also, we get the feeling Strong Bad would give in if Chandler stopped by and plied him with a few Cold Ones. More »
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