A monster truck is a specialized off-road vehicle with a heavy duty suspension, four-wheel steering, large-displacement V8 engines and oversized tires constructed for competition and entertainment uses.

It's a strong cage made of steel tubes that protects the driver and connects all of the parts. Together. These are the axles. The axles go between two wheels and connect the wheels to the chassis.

Hot Wheels is a brand of die-cast vehicles produced by Mattel since 1968. Hot Wheels originally produced monster truck diecasts from 1991-92, after establishing a brief sponsorship with Bigfoot 4x4.

St. Louis, Missouri The First Monster Truck Chandler owned an aftermarket car parts store called “Midwest Four Wheel Drive” in St. Louis, Missouri, and to promote it, he decided to make his truck the unofficial mascot. How? As Mental Floss explains, he added 48-inch oversized wheels, and supported them with larger axles.

Five green 1950s-era Dodge trucks were built for the movie. One, with its engine in the pickup bed, could be driven from a position under the hood. Creech drives from that position. Nearly every vehicle used in the film is a Chrysler product.

Creech is a tentacled creature, a little bit like an octopus. Did you know that octopuses use their tentacles to swim and 'walk' along the sea floor? Not only that, but they can actually regrow tentacles if they lose one!

Creech is a tentacled creature, a little bit like an octopus.

No Besides most monster trucks run on methanol and get less than 1 mpg. You would have 30 min of fuel depending on how hard it was driven. Monster trucks' wheels are so massive and so wide that they'd take up two lanes. They are definitely not street legal.

Official monster trucks all run tires that are 66 inches tall by 43 inches wide. They run on only 8 to 10 lbs of pressure and weigh 800 to 900 lbs.

And then you can lay the fiberglass down. And then you lay the resin down and the resin has an activator. And it's what hardens when the fiberglass dries.

Of bodies. They're all basically a similar chassis design and then the fiberglass. Body is what makes the trucks character the lighter you can make the body the more weight you can put into that

Chandler: Once I started getting paid to bring Bigfoot to events, it changed things completely. One promoter at an event at the Pontiac Silverdome outside Detroit called Bigfoot a monster truck, and that's where the name comes from.

Grave Digger Considered one of the most famous and recognized monster trucks of all time, Grave Digger serves as the flagship team of the Monster Jam series, with seven active Grave Digger trucks being driven by different drivers to allow a truck to appear at every Monster Jam event.

In addition to the violent scenes mentioned above, Monster Trucks has some scenes that could scare or disturb children under five years. For example: The monsters might scare children in this age group. Creech has a dinosaur-like body with no tail, eight squid-like tentacles, and a turtle-like head with large eyes.

Monster Jam is the world's largest and most famous monster truck tour featuring the biggest names in monster trucks including Grave Digger®, Max-D®, Monster Mutt®, El Toro Loco®, Captain's Curse® and Blue Thunder®.

Since driving monster trucks can be dangerous, the trucks have many safety features, including three different kill switches that allow the truck to be shut off remotely in case of a rollover or fire. Drivers also have to wear fireproof suits, safety harnesses, helmets, and head and neck restraints.