

The poor F250 became the testing ground for both Chandler's and Kramer's engineering experiments.

Passionate about off-roading, Chandler used his own garage and his neighbor, Jim Kramer, to create the Midwest 4 Wheel Drive Center, a place where they could repair the off-road battered pick-up truck. The monster truck and its use as we know it today were born in early 1970, when former construction manager Bob Chandler decided to buy a 1974 Ford F250 pick-up truck. The need to determine who has the biggest truck led to national or local competitions to settle the dispute. Their use in such competitions called for a higher-than-usual ground clearance, a factor which led to so called suspension lifted truck.Īs more and more lifted trucks came to be, human nature stepped in and the all-mighty " mine is bigger" war began. From that point, all the way to today's Monster Jam, the monster truck, as it is now known, has become the motorized version of a Wrestlemania wrestler.Īs we said, the monster truck began to take shape back in the 1970s, fueled by the increased interest in pick-up truck use for mud bogging and truck-pulling competitions. It was around that time when the American taste for pick-up trucks and their ability to do more than just carry people and load from place to place began to form. Since all automobile enthusiasts can't help drooling when hearing about huge engine power, enormous torque or big chunks of rubber ravishing the ground, putting all that into a single package was the logical step to make back in the '70s. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.In only some 40 years, the monster truck has become one of the most tasty, appealing side dish of the automotive industry. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
