Auto accidents, Car accidents, Truck accidents, Motorcycle accidents are all happening around us. We try to drive our vehicles as carefully as possible but it is always the other drivers' that we have to worry about - right?
How else can we cope with the potential of an accident. Being aware of everything around you when you drive and not be distracted by cell phones, dvd players, gps systems etc. Of, course its easy for me to say all of this, but you know that what I'm writing is true.
Get rid of the distraction and the concentratoin is more on driving, and then being able to deal more speedily with the other driver's bad driving.
From the "Monster Trucks in the 1980s" series comes this special edition video... see all your favourite monster trucks from the '80s in their original sound.
Grave Digger (Dennis Anderson) and Samson (Dan Patrick) performing a dual freestyle run at the 1999 New Orleans, Louisiana Monster Jam. This is the location of the famous Grave Digger crash, in which the truck launched off of the concrete divider in the centre of the track, causing it to flip into the end of one of the junk car sets.
Here's a video I put together, featuring video of various monster trucks from the 1980s.
Notice - Due to copyright issues, the song previously in this video, "Rock You Like A Hurricane," by the Scorpions, has been replaced with "Sermon" - Drowning Pool, via the YouTube AudioSwap feature.
A collection of some of the best monster truck crashes, wrecks, and rollovers from the 1980s and early 1990s.
Music:
"O Fortuna" - Carl Orff
"Harvester of Sorrow" - Metallica
"The Distance" - FirstCom Music
This is a second compilation of monster truck crashes, flips, and fires.
Music: "Voices" - Disturbed
**Notice: Due to copyright issues with the original song, the music in this video has been replaced with "Hurt," by Drowning Pool.
In the late-1980s, a new type of vehicle entered monster truck events, the monster tank. These vehicles are typically military tanks or personnel carriers, upgraded with bigger engines & street-vehicle bodies. This is a compilation featuring some of the best of the monster tanks.
Music: "Are You Ready" - AC/DC
This is the final round race from the Canfield, Ohio PENDA Monster Truck event, from TNN's "Trucks & Tractor Power."
Bearfoot (Fred Schafer)
vs.
WCW Stinger (Eric Meagher)
Another compilation from back in the days when monster trucks ran full-steel bodies & leaf springs... Monster Trucks in the 1980s - Part 6
Music: "Back in the Day" - Megadeth
A compilation of some of the wildest crashes, wrecks, and rollovers from the PENDA Monster Truck Racing Series.
Music:
"Survival of the Sickest" - Saliva
Blacksmith (Pablo Huffaker) racing Blue Thunder (Lyle Hancock) in the second round of competition at the Monster Jam World Finals 2, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pablo finished this race with a wild cartwheel-flip, landing on top of the wall at the end of the track.
