Well you guys can believe what you want but my dad is Jim Oldaker the one who drove rollin thunder (big orange van) he sold it to a friend in japan most of you know what it is now. But Frankenstein and monster vette are still around there on display at a car museum owned by darrill starburt near where we live.
I watch this now an I'm like "how can they do that to those cars!" Crap then classics now. I miss those days when you didn't need like 5-mill in sponsors to do stuff just a lot of ambition got it done. Where's Midnight Pumpkin at?
Check out those classics... getting crushed. Of course at the time they were just old junk cars. hahaha good times.
Granted, most of those are normal 4doors, but there's a nice Cadillac a 500cid v8 could be pulled from, a really nice late 1960s Pontiac, etc. And remember, lots of the blah sedans had parts that were interchangeable with the fun stuff- GTOs, Camaros, Chevelles....
Good stuff,brings back childhood memories! I don't even bother to watch monster trucks these days,its just not the same. Back then it was truck challenge,modifying real everyday vehicles... these days the vehicles are designed specifically for crushing etc etc...
I dunno its like seeing a tractor for example doing what a tractor does best,being a tractor...vs watching a machine doing something totally unthinkable and being pushed beyond its overall intended design.
lol gotta love how monster mash busted the front end right at the line!!! this is real monster truck racing, the stuff nowadays is brutal i cant stand to watch it either
This was the first side by side monster truck event shown on tv. Part of "The Superchargers" show. Many of the competitors made no money at all, except their t-shirt sales.
they may be slow, but they have so much more style to them than the "roll cage with a cookie cutter glass body" of today. back then it was all about the cars getting crushed. now people just want to see the monster trucks roll over and crush themselves.
this is the old mid/late 80's vid "battle of the monster trucks" it's clear the one lane is in worse condition . the cars have a ripple effect that cant be raced on. much like the 2nd vid "return of the monster trucks" the one lane was shit to race on.
oh well, still better than what goes on today. todays monster jam blows. i cant even watch it
Love the insane stuff they do these days, but I really miss the slower pace, the tech info, the strategy of using different equipment, the custom work, the tractor pulling, mud bogs. Now it's all WWF story lines + driver grudges, screaming MCs, etc :( Used to be a great way to spend a Sunday morning! Just had the same feeling I used to get way back when- curiosity about the equipment, mourning the crushed cars- Thanks for posting! Now, where's my Sunday paper and a donut? =)
back in the early 80`s gary porter and his brother richard built the first carolina crusher at richards 4x4 shop across the street from my apartment in wadesboro nc. it was an old chevy stepside and was his daily driver until it got too big for the road. back then they were truck bodys on top of some kind of homemade frame and weighed as much as a bulldozer. boy have things changed.
they had the guts, they just didn't have the technology, you have to remember these were actual trucks on heavy duty frames, not full out tube chassis/rollcages, and the suspension systems were archaic compared to now, where everything is designed on a computer. and every jump was a HARD landing.
I can't believe it, but this was actually more exciting than a truck show I went to a week ago. Sure they couldn't do much at the arena because it's really small, be I think it's the look of the trucks that have spoiled it for me. They all looked the same. I loved how in the 80's there was a wide variety of truck styles and different events like mud-bogging. Now the trucks have lame looking plastic bodies and the only variety's on the front. BTW, Frankenstein is awesome, but painfully slow.
back in the early-mid eighties the old school trucks on average i don't think had more than 500-650 horsepower,these trucks were built off of stock chassis which were heavily reinforced, used leaf spring suspension, a stock body, and heavy military axles to support the tires. they weighed somewhere between 16.000-20.000lbs.
Today trucks featured a full tubular chassis and a long-travel suspension using nitrogen shock absorbers.
Weigh no more than 10.000lbs and have on average 1400-1700hp.
i been watching monster trucks all my life and dont think i ever seen cliff starbird in monster vette and frankenstine driven by barry wentz win a race too stiff and top heavy his short wheelbase trucks killed him
This was when monster trucks really were monstertrucks. these things were meant to crush. not too fly. why MT racing became more like motocross ill neve rknow.
if you work the front and rear steer and gas.. you can literally walk the rig over the cars like a caterpillar or something.. it can look cool if yo udid it right
look at him mash those cars as he boogies down the lane!!
XuliusCaesar 5 months ago
i remember this
bradster3372 6 months ago
Well you guys can believe what you want but my dad is Jim Oldaker the one who drove rollin thunder (big orange van) he sold it to a friend in japan most of you know what it is now. But Frankenstein and monster vette are still around there on display at a car museum owned by darrill starburt near where we live.
oldaker2 9 months ago
@oldaker2 He mashed those cars as he boogied down the lane!!
XuliusCaesar 5 months ago
I watch this now an I'm like "how can they do that to those cars!" Crap then classics now. I miss those days when you didn't need like 5-mill in sponsors to do stuff just a lot of ambition got it done. Where's Midnight Pumpkin at?
BigEsGarage 11 months ago
holy crap!... i saw a 68 camaro amongst those crushed cars! @ 0:43
badgerbuddy 1 year ago
Monster trucks rule!
jarbon5 1 year ago
4:00 fail
jca42083 1 year ago
I had the Rolling Thunder matchbox car.... And I still have BATTLE OF THE MONSTER TRUCKS VHS tape
blackmale78 1 year ago
Fucking pussy shit compared to todays racing and they did not do freestyle competetions back then.
ScottCful 1 year ago
Fucking pussy shit compared to todays racing
ScottCful 1 year ago
Somebody needs to tighten the rollbar bolts on old Frank.....
Wyattriot77 1 year ago
Check out those classics... getting crushed. Of course at the time they were just old junk cars. hahaha good times.
Granted, most of those are normal 4doors, but there's a nice Cadillac a 500cid v8 could be pulled from, a really nice late 1960s Pontiac, etc. And remember, lots of the blah sedans had parts that were interchangeable with the fun stuff- GTOs, Camaros, Chevelles....
ChevelleSSLS6 1 year ago
Good stuff,brings back childhood memories! I don't even bother to watch monster trucks these days,its just not the same. Back then it was truck challenge,modifying real everyday vehicles... these days the vehicles are designed specifically for crushing etc etc...
I dunno its like seeing a tractor for example doing what a tractor does best,being a tractor...vs watching a machine doing something totally unthinkable and being pushed beyond its overall intended design.
KillColdBlood 1 year ago
Detriot Deisel vs a 454 I like it
Rampersad454 1 year ago
i want the cars there crushing
MrKoreyjay 1 year ago
i think their cute trucks cuz it looks like they crawl like small kids :)
GurgelGnorf 1 year ago
lol gotta love how monster mash busted the front end right at the line!!! this is real monster truck racing, the stuff nowadays is brutal i cant stand to watch it either
1983tmb 1 year ago
think then, it would be like stones to space ships, 20years from now...
shawnclarkston 1 year ago
hes a straight drive tooo
12valvepower1 1 year ago
oh god theyre destroying cars i would pay 10.000$ for....
alli333o 1 year ago
@alli333o You just spoke out what I thought...
slayer2008 1 year ago
@slayer2008 yeah i know :(((
alli333o 1 year ago
my friends dad is jim oldaker
Comrade005 1 year ago
no helmets, people riding shotgun and neither are probably wearing seat belts. awesome!!!!!
rickyfense 1 year ago
rolling thunder looks so cool and with the logo and stuff
Xenomorph237 1 year ago
now these are monster trucks!!! i respect the new ones but there is nothing about them that is truck! fully custom built for racing.
BLACKLACDTS 2 years ago 4
I wonder how many of these old Monster Trucks still exist?
RacerRose 2 years ago 2
Rollin Thunder is a extrem heavy monster truck heavier then others.
Videomakera 2 years ago
Bruce Flanders!
BackChannelStudios 2 years ago 2
This was the first side by side monster truck event shown on tv. Part of "The Superchargers" show. Many of the competitors made no money at all, except their t-shirt sales.
BrucetheBartender 2 years ago
they may be slow, but they have so much more style to them than the "roll cage with a cookie cutter glass body" of today. back then it was all about the cars getting crushed. now people just want to see the monster trucks roll over and crush themselves.
hotrodtiki200 2 years ago 4
I'm so glad monster trucks have progressed from these slow pieces of crap. Chnage is good folks. Quit living in the past.
timbulb 2 years ago
wow it amazing how they changed in 20 years!!! no they big ass jumps with no problem and they sure can move fast now!!!
1964corvan 2 years ago
this is the old mid/late 80's vid "battle of the monster trucks" it's clear the one lane is in worse condition . the cars have a ripple effect that cant be raced on. much like the 2nd vid "return of the monster trucks" the one lane was shit to race on.
oh well, still better than what goes on today. todays monster jam blows. i cant even watch it
youngron707 2 years ago 11
Whatever. Today's monster jam is awesome. Freestyle rules, except when dudes are too afraid to fucking drive.
timbulb 2 years ago
Love the insane stuff they do these days, but I really miss the slower pace, the tech info, the strategy of using different equipment, the custom work, the tractor pulling, mud bogs. Now it's all WWF story lines + driver grudges, screaming MCs, etc :( Used to be a great way to spend a Sunday morning! Just had the same feeling I used to get way back when- curiosity about the equipment, mourning the crushed cars- Thanks for posting! Now, where's my Sunday paper and a donut? =)
AirmanCylon401 2 years ago
WWF story lines?!
timbulb 2 years ago
Sorry, man- got carried away =O
I get a little crazy when they remove the gearhead element from motorsports. Doesn't sit well.
AirmanCylon401 2 years ago
back in the early 80`s gary porter and his brother richard built the first carolina crusher at richards 4x4 shop across the street from my apartment in wadesboro nc. it was an old chevy stepside and was his daily driver until it got too big for the road. back then they were truck bodys on top of some kind of homemade frame and weighed as much as a bulldozer. boy have things changed.
rhigh100 2 years ago
rollin thunder = tamiya lunchbox
xismxist 2 years ago 14
Frankenstein = Tamiya Midnight Pumpkin (only a different colour)
andywellsey 2 years ago 7
@xismxist - at 2:25 look at him mash those cars as he boogeys down the lane LOL
PeterMcGlashan 2 months ago
holy crap... it sucks to see all these great classic cars get crushed... i swear i saw a gto, impala, and charger, amongst those cars getting crushed
badgerbuddy 2 years ago 3
they didn't have guts to do anything fast back then.
monsterjamman96 2 years ago
they had the guts, they just didn't have the technology, you have to remember these were actual trucks on heavy duty frames, not full out tube chassis/rollcages, and the suspension systems were archaic compared to now, where everything is designed on a computer. and every jump was a HARD landing.
sgtpepper1138 2 years ago 8
and a bouncy one too, ive often seen the older trucks land, bounce one way, land and bouce the other way, it would be risky to do that to often
pandydrum1 2 years ago
they also couldnt afford to, the trucks were actual trucks back then, not fiberglass crap
lightningfromelysium 2 years ago
Those were the days.. notice all the safety gear everyone was wearing and the fact that Mike Welch is carrying a passenger in the final round!
ClipperGoodwill 2 years ago 3
Monster trucks have come a long way from just gently driving over the cars.
Pretty crazy how people are just standing around them. Coaching them on like.
ohitsmark 2 years ago 2
Were there any other trucks? If there were, list them.
schmuzzy88 2 years ago
i wonder wat happened to all those old trucks
01digger01 3 years ago 2
I can't believe it, but this was actually more exciting than a truck show I went to a week ago. Sure they couldn't do much at the arena because it's really small, be I think it's the look of the trucks that have spoiled it for me. They all looked the same. I loved how in the 80's there was a wide variety of truck styles and different events like mud-bogging. Now the trucks have lame looking plastic bodies and the only variety's on the front. BTW, Frankenstein is awesome, but painfully slow.
imlaughing2death 3 years ago 4
wow man this shits old im 15 but i like the old monster truck bodies
Xlife93 3 years ago
me too yo.
i'm 15. kinda random, but yea. lol
01digger01 3 years ago
The driver of Monster Mash was 21?! Holy crap.. and here I am at age 22...
btw I agree. Everytime I've seen Frankenstein, the truck is just crawling slowly.
mthq 3 years ago
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energetic fun smart and loves this video QI
723750 3 years ago
thanks for the post watched these videos hundreds of times as a kid!!
STUCUTZO 3 years ago
those cars should never have been crushed
68chevelleSS396 3 years ago
The frankenstein truck looked like it was walking over the cars
fiebre1991 3 years ago
Ha ha ha, old school, I LOVE IT!!!!
ilovetogofast88 3 years ago 3
Where can I get these movies?Many years ago my brother hade it on VHS.
M323fSportT 3 years ago
can anyone explane to me why frankenstine and monster vette did not put the pedal to the metal and just drive it out hard
bumpertobumperdetail 3 years ago
back in the early-mid eighties the old school trucks on average i don't think had more than 500-650 horsepower,these trucks were built off of stock chassis which were heavily reinforced, used leaf spring suspension, a stock body, and heavy military axles to support the tires. they weighed somewhere between 16.000-20.000lbs.
Today trucks featured a full tubular chassis and a long-travel suspension using nitrogen shock absorbers.
Weigh no more than 10.000lbs and have on average 1400-1700hp.
PietjeZz 3 years ago 4
best looking trucks ever was
1.duraliner giant -kirk dabney
2.samson1-don maples
3.blue thunder 68 camaro-kirk dabney
4.monster vette-cliff starbird
5.super pete-mike welsch
thats my opinion
bumpertobumperdetail 3 years ago 3
i been watching monster trucks all my life and dont think i ever seen cliff starbird in monster vette and frankenstine driven by barry wentz win a race too stiff and top heavy his short wheelbase trucks killed him
bumpertobumperdetail 3 years ago
the van was the best
FattKill 3 years ago
This was when monster trucks really were monstertrucks. these things were meant to crush. not too fly. why MT racing became more like motocross ill neve rknow.
Warndog9 3 years ago
holly sh*t that van is fast
ChubbyKola 3 years ago
god, how was this entertaining back in the day.
suzuki400boi 3 years ago
i luv that van!
Dukeboycnh320 3 years ago
back then they were realy were trucks now there just fake
sirhc99999 3 years ago
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12valvepower 3 years ago
wow talk about advancement in technology today's trucks would clear those cars in 5 seconds if not faster.
tempo1889 4 years ago 2
if you work the front and rear steer and gas.. you can literally walk the rig over the cars like a caterpillar or something.. it can look cool if yo udid it right
12valvepower 3 years ago
i got this video on betamax :P
JustBa1ty 4 years ago
This was in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
xRemx 4 years ago
Where do you get all of these clips that you use in your videos?
caboose1320 4 years ago
awesomeness classic monster truck action
jerkyman9 4 years ago