Bob Chandler first customised his 1974 F250 back in 1975 to publisise his family 4 wheel drive business. Little did he know, that 25 years later that same truck would have influenced so many people to build their own Monster Trucks & put the sport where it is today, along with the help of many other individuals along the way.
Eighteen BIGFOOT vehicles later, (nineteen once BIGFOOT 16 is completed) Bob's trucks have come along way since the original truck.

The BIGFOOT celebrations started on Friday night, when both BIGFOOT 14 & BIGFOOT 15 (Tonka Team BIGFOOT) came out to do freestyle at the same time, after the racing was over.
With both Dan Runte & Eric Tack being experts at doing wheelies, the plan was to both try & pull a wheelie side by side at the same time.
However that proved harder than imagined, as both drivers managed to pull wheelies, but not both at the same time. As one would get the wheelie going, the other truck wouldn't & visa versa.

Saturday evenings celebration started with a brief history of BIGFOOT through the years, followed by BIGFOOT 5 with it's 10 foot tall tires, crushing an ugly truck. BIGFOOT 5 had been parked next to BIGFOOT 1 in the Monster Truck area of the fairgrounds for the first couple of days & John Seasock of Sudden Impact, got behind the wheel, to drive it into the infield, closely monitored by Jim Kramer, in the cab.
Jim Kramer would be doing the car crushing in BIGFOOT 5 that night !!

Jim Kramer made a total of three passes over the ugly pickup truck. Twice from the side & once lengthways.

After the Burnout contest & Tug a truck competition, the next BIGFOOT action for Saturday night, was the Monster Truck wishbone contest. This is where two Monster trucks pull a car apart. The two trucks to do this would be BIGFOOT 5 & BIGFOOT 1. BIGFOOT 1 is currently sporting 48" tires, as that was the size of the tires, that Bob originally had on the truck. Bob had to shave the inside of the tires, to fit them on the truck, as they rubbed on the axles.
They connected the two trucks up to the car with chains & then proceded to pull it apart. Jim Kramer was behind the wheel of BIGFOOT 5 & Eric Meagher was in the driving seat of BIGFOOT 1. However one the chains broke on BIGFOOT 1 just as the car was breaking in two.

Into Saturday night, the crowd where also treated to Airplane Fred Sibleys Jet Truck car burn, along with the Monster Truck racing & Tough Trucks.
After the Monster Truck finals, Brian Bertoletti in Snakebite, Eric Tack in Tonka Team BIGFOOT & Rick Petroline in Fireston BIGFOOT came out to do some freestyle.
Click here to se a picture of Snakebite getting some air.

The highlight of the BIGFOOT celebrations would be the Monster Truck jump by Dan Runte. Dan would be jumping over the BIGFOOT 1 & Snakebite trucks. If he messed up not only would he break his truck, but possible damge to the other two BIGFOOT trucks.
Bob Chandler had carefully calculated the jump, with the aid of computers, know how fast Dan had to go & the angle of the ramp, etc.
Dan had not raced the truck at all on the Saturday, so the truck was all set & ready to go, & Dan was all rested & prepared for the jump.
With all trucks & people in place, it was time for the climax of the show.
Dan spead towards the ramp & cleared the cars with ease. As he jumped the two Monster trucks, a whole bunch of fireworks went off & contined going off for at least 10 minutes.

The jumping & fireworks bought an end to the Saturday nights celebration.
Looking at the picture above, Dan could have easily jumped BIGFOOT 5........maybe next time !

Sunday afternoon saw BIGFOOT 1 & the Tonka BIGFOOT doing the wishbone contest. This time, no chains broke.

Fred Sibley with his "Litle Red Beer Hauler" Jet truck, gave the crowd another chance to see him burn a car out.

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• Introduction page
• Fridays Monster Truck Action
• Saturday afternoon Monster Truck Action
• Saturday Evening Monster Truck Action
• Sundays Monster Truck Action
• BIGFOOT's 25th Anniversary
• Monster Truck Freestyle Pictures
• Executioner Crash Pictures
• Tough Truck Action
• Show Trucks
• Burn Out Contest
• Bikini Contest Picture
• Weekends official Results