Monster Truck Madness – Can’t Catch the Bandit!
Hello everybody and Happy Thursday!
It’s been a busy couple of weeks round right here! Outdoor racing season kicked off, I bought my fingers on the brand new Traxxas TRX-4MT Monster Truck, and, final weekend, I bought married!
I’m catching up from the whirlwind that’s been the previous couple of days, and thus don’t have a lot new r/c stuff to debate.
However, I do have one thing unbelievable to share with the old-fashioned monster truck fanatics which will learn this weblog.
Kyle Doyle, a buddy of mine and used-to-be-coworker again once we each labored for BIGFOOT round a decade in the past, has written a wonderful longform article wherein he discusses the historical past of Golden State Promotions (GSP). Some of you could not essentially know the GSP title, however you in all probability will keep in mind a number of of the vehicles that they owned and campaigned throughout the golden age of monster trucking – Skoal Bandit, Ecology Eliminator, the AM/PM Boss- a assassin’s row of classic iron.
Kyle bases a lot of this piece on an interview he performed with GSP founder and International Monster Truck Hall of Famer Seth Doulton again in 2013, however he’s additionally added nuggets of knowledge that’ve come out since then through interviews and web finds, all combined with some great images which were shared of the vehicles.
I used to be fortunate sufficient to see a number of the Golden State monsters in individual a number of instances as a child, and as a BIGFOOT fan they terrified me- particularly Ecology Eliminator. This is a photograph of mine from a remaining spherical race I noticed at St. Louis Arena in 1990 the place the Eliminator battled BIGFOOT #4. Good instances, man.
I implore you to learn this wonderful story detailing the historical past of the group. Go check it out here. For an old-fashioned fan like myself, this was riveting stuff!
Until subsequent time, hold it on all 4’s!