Thanks for fixing this truck. I watched monster truck racing every chance I could back in the day. I could only dream of what the truck looked like under the panels. Hope to see it again in person some day.
Hey. No problem, it was our pleasure to fix it for everyone to see! It'll be back in the monsye truck hall of fame in butler, indiana later this year! Come check the place out!
Thank you, for contributing to what fans will be talking about for generations to come. I appreciate your attention to detail, when carefully handling a historically important truck like this.
Pretty much the truck was thrown back together just to be a display piece at the Hall of Fame. The truck is definitely a iconic piece of Monster Truck history.
It ended up behind Tim mentes shop stripped down to bar bones, was headed to the scrapyard. It had a newer chevy s10 body and had been hacked on a lot over the years.
@@merica-tv7588 You say it had a newer s10 body. I always wondered, when David Morris started using the newer s10 body, was it still this frame (that original) or did he build a whole new truck and this one just moved on else where? Thanks for the responses. Awesome to hear about a childhood favorite!
@@merica-tv7588 Yes for sure! Now that I look into it, I see it ran as Hot Tamale for awhile under mentes ownership. Crazy long run for the original chassis. Testament to Cook and his original design and build. Makes me love that truck even more after all these years!
And correction is that when it first came out it did not have the big coil over shocks. Had the standard shocks that the trucks were running back then. I know through the 89 TNT season and all the way up to the Freedom Hall event it didn't have the coil overs. So somewhere between late 89 and the beginning of the 90 season the truck was updated.
Well it take me all day on my back changing th 400 tranny on my back on rocky driveway. 1st one was 400 than I was getting th 350 for 75$ . Cool project slip couling instead of a u joint is interesting
