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Monster Truck (Bigfoot)

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Monster Truck (Bigfoot)

The original monster truck that started it all/Cars & Road Vehicles

Bigfoot 1 was built by Bob Chandler in 1975 and became the first truck to crush cars under its enormous tires, spawning an entire motorsport genre. Modern iterations of Bigfoot run on tires originally designed for the U.S. Army and produce enough horsepower to make a Lamborghini blush. The truck exists to remind us that sometimes the best engineering question is simply 'what if we made it bigger?'

Measurements

Height4.7 m
2 thousandthsNASCAR ovals
8.5 tenthsGiraffes
123Silver dollar diameters
Vehicle mass5,400 kg
15.1 billionthsMount Everest masses
2Blue whale tongues
Tire diameter1.68 m
1.2 billionthsSun diameters
3.9 tenthsTrampoline diameters
35 millionthsBahrain lengths

66-inch tires

Engine power1.1 million W
1,864Blenders
1.2 hundredthsBoeing 747 engines
18,643Incandescent bulbs

Approximately 1,500 hp

Overall length3.8 m
4.16Tennis nets
173Almond lengths
1.27Diving boards
Width3.66 m
366 billionHard X-ray wavelengths
6.1Dachshunds
87.1Watch face widths
Tire width1.1 m
859 millionthsBridge spans
1.8 tenthsBoxing ring sides

43-inch wide tires

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