Product Description
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If you love Monster Trucks we guarantee you will love this
one-of-a-kind collection of the very first monster truck programs
ever to be released on National Television and Home Video.
Featuring the original battle, return and war of the monster
trucks! Even before cable TV, these history making shows
introduced television audiences from coast-to-coast to the
phenomenon known as monster truck racing and exhibitions! Not
seen in almost 30years, this 3-DVD collector's set has been
digitally re-mastered to bring you over 2 and a half hours of all
the ground-pounding, dirt-flying action of the greatest monster
truck shows on earth! Loaded with history making video footage,
highlights include: The first side-by-side monster truck car
crushing races ever! The original 1974 ford bigfoot and bigfoot
IV! The first ever bus crushing exhibition! Monster truck
floating water races! Interviews with famous drivers and owners!
The world's biggest truck! Tons of crushing action that will blow
you away! Videotaped in superdomes and stadiums all across North
America and Australia these were the first ultimate monster truck
bashes loaded with non-stop smoking action! There is plenty of
mud bog runs, flame throwing funny cars, wheelie trucks, dragster
tractors, the first ever obstacle course competitions, tug-o-war,
ugliest truck competition, specialty vehicles, mini-monsters and
more! You won't find original monster truck action footage like
this anywhere else! Own a piece of Monster Truck History today --
get Monster Truck Classics! You will see the famous Monster
Trucks that started it all including: the Original Bigfoot and
Bigfoot IV plus favorites like, USA-1, the Frankenstein Monster
Machine, Monster Vette, Cyclops, Monster Mash, Rollin Thunder,
Orange Blossom Special, Psycho, Magnum, Jr., The Green Monster,
Tennessee Thunder, The Wheelie King, Warlord, The Red Baron, the
Chi-Town Hustler, Michigan Ice Monster, Blue Thunder, Awesome
Kong, The All American, Taurus, Bearfoot, Virginia Beast, First
Blood, Hercules, Krimson Krusher, Master of Disaster, the Aussie
Battler and many more!
Review
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Never before has there been so much classic monster truck action
and historical moments packed into one DVD collection! Plus, the
mud, dragster and truck pulling action is very exciting to watch.
Suitable for all ages. --Satisfied Customer
MONSTER TRUCK CLASSICS - BATTLE, WAR AND RETURN OF THE MONSTER
TRUCKS 3 DVD SET over 90 Minutes $19.95
Monster Truck Classics relives monster truck's simpler times
Besides big hair, neon colors and Transformers, monster trucks
are a part of the popular culture of the 1980s. What helped make
these 4X4s on steroids become the car-crunching phenomenon that
it is are three videos, Battle of the Monster Trucks, Return of
the Monster Trucks and War of the Monster Trucks. All three
videos are included in the three-disc set Monster Truck Classics
released by Marshall Publishing & Promotions, Inc. These videos
show the crazy, we'll show anything attitude that the 1980s was
known for. Jan Gabriel, producer and host of all three monster
truck videos, helped create these videos. If it was not for him,
monster trucks would probably not be as big as they are today.
All three videos cover events held by the United States Hot Rod
Association (USHRA), which still holds monster truck events as,
the biggest monster truck touring circuit in the world. The first
video, Battle of the Monster Trucks, covers more than just
Bigfoot, USA-1 and the other monsters. It also talks about
tractor pulls and funny car pulls among other vehicles. Gabriel
and actor Claude Akins covered the events. Gabriel seems very
enthusiastic and genuine while Akins seems to be reading off a
teleprompter. He got better in the second video, however,
providing an excellent description on what made 1980s monster
trucking amazing. He says it's drag racing and demolition derby
all in one. Never heard it described better. The second and third
videos, Return of the Monster Trucks and War of the Monster
Trucks, focus almost exclusively on monster trucks. In Return, a
cool event happens where the trucks start off pulling a sled,
then drive over a huge dirt mound, then cars and finally end by
going mud bogging. This needs to come back as it shows the
versatility of these behemoths. Besides showing car crunches,
other monster truck events are shown such as monster truck boat
racing. You read that correctly. Since these monsters have large
tires full of air, they float. Besides seeing these big boys
float, Bob Chandler, the her of monster trucks with Bigfoot,
showed off Bigfoot #4, a truck with tires bigger than houses!
Freestyle, one of the featured events in modern monster truck
events that is similar to a freestyle motocross event, makes a
rare early appearance in War. The stellar 80s synth music, seeing
a young, energetic Jack Arute and watching monster truck events
in their infancy make these videos worth watching. For old videos
that are nearly forgotten and over 20 years ago, the image
quality is very good and better than many mainstream releases. If
you love monster trucks or have small children who do, show them
Monster Truck Classics as it will open eyes as to what monster
trucks are capable of. - (c) 2008 Creative One,Inc. Re-mastered
and now distributed by Marshall Publishing & Promotions,Inc. -
Reviewed by Steven Diggs, Jr. Geek Lifestyle Examiner, October
2011 - --Steven Diggs, Jr. Geek Lifestyle Examiner October 2011