TRUCK NAME: Virginia Beach Beast

MAKE: Chevrolet Blazer body, a 1942 M4 Tank Retriver Base

OWNER/DRIVER: William Townes

TOWN/CITY: Virginia Beach

ENGINE SIZE: 454cubic inch supercharged engine

INFORMATION: This was the first monster truck tank to be built. Many more later followed. William got the idea for his creation after seeing a cartoon in a four wheel drive magazine, which showed a truck body with a gun, on a tank tracks. So he decided to build himeself one, without the gun though. The tank tracks are from a M4 Tank Retriver, whch was used in world war 2. The truck can drive over cars at perculiar angles, which leave the spectators thinking that the tank will tip over at any minute, but the Virginia Beach Beast is so bottom heavy, that it can be really slung about over the cars, with no fear of tipping over.

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