Before there was Grave Digger, Speed Channel and Monster Jam, there was Bigfoot, the original Monster Truck. And now it has become an American legend, perhaps the world's most reconizable truck.
Thirty-five years ago (that's 1974) Bob Chandler built the first of several dozen Bigfoots and as the sign says on the next page, it first hit the SEMA Show in 1977 and it crushed its first car in 1981.
To celebrate the truck's birthday, Chandler and the boys have even reskinned a modern Bigfoot to look like the original (pictured). In other words they built the monster truck version of the restomod. And this year the two Bigfoots are displayed at SEMA side-by-side. Pretty cool.
Oh, and just in case you're too young to remember, those are two Predator carburetors sticking through Bigfoot's hood. And it just didn't get any cooler than that in the mid-1970s.
estreka says:
04:26 PM, 11/ 3/09
It's insane that BigFoot looks comparatively small next to some of the big lifted trucks these days.
cwc1 says:
06:13 PM, 11/ 3/09
Why, why, why go to the trouble and expense to put an old truck body on a new truck chassis? For the "classic" styling? I don't think so. Why not just do a modern Bigfoot?
parchisi64 says:
09:00 PM, 11/ 3/09
Because a modern Bigfoot wouldn't have the "classic" styling and heritage of the original. I find the '70s Ford trucks to be pretty damn handsome myself, and I wasn't even around back then.
felonious says:
08:43 AM, 11/ 4/09
Thank you Scott, that was a nice trip around memory lane. :)