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Photos By: Josh Rhodes
Event: Special Events
City: Indianapolis, Indiana
Date: November 19, 2005
Field of Trucks: Raminator (Mark Hall), Rammunition, Wrecking Crew (Jim Koehler), Spike, Snake Bite, Black Stallion, Big Dawg, Bigfoot (Dan Runte), Nitemare (Andy Hoffman), Predator (Allen Pezo), Prowler.
Photos By: Dustin Hart
Event: Monster Jam
City: Hampton, Virginia
Date: November 19, 2005
Field of Trucks: Stone Crusher (Steve Sims), Grave Digger (Randy Brown), Wild Hair (Ray Mowery), Eradicator (Andy Slifko), War Wizard (Randy Moore), T-Maxx (John Seasock). [Read more…]
Pull up a chair and lounge out by the computer tonight; AllMonster has your entertainment covered! First, we have updates from the Paul Shafer World Finals. Bad News suffered engine problems throughout the weekend, going out in the second round. In the end, the Kid Rock truck won racing. Freestyle is tomorrow, and Team KCM, Bigfoot, and others will still be competing, although some teams have already packed up, planning on forgoing freestyle.
But that isn’t all for tonight! Dustin Hart and Trevor Andrews are heading to Hampton, Virginia for tonight’s Monster Jam and have already checked in with us. Look for updates from them later on.
We also have Josh Rhodes, who checked in on his way to the Indianapolis Special Events show at the RCA Dome.
All in all it will be a busy weekend; pull up a chair and check out the updates later tonight
A special two-part Starting Line is now up, reviewing some of our summer action and previewing the 2006 season. Enjoy!
As the 2005 season in monster trucks winds down, I found it appropriate to reflect on all that has happened in our sport since I last posted a column here with a focus on the summer season.
The first stop for me was Quincy, Illinois for two days of Monster Jam. There were a couple of interesting storylines to look for in the winter season happening already at this event. Carl VanHorn was handed the keys to Dennis Anderson’s Grave Digger 19 and dominated the racing and freestyle both days. In his first hit on the van stack in freestyle, VanHorn did something even Anderson rarely does in 19–a slap wheelie, his trademark in Grave Digger 14. Rumors abound about which Grave Digger truck he will drive next year, but on this weekend and the following one in Baxter, Tennessee, VanHorn proved he will be a force in the season to come no matter what he is driving.
A 140-photo gallery of this summer’s Birch Run, Michigan 2-day event is now online in our Photos section; enjoy!
Jim Koehler is a veteran of the monster truck industry who started in the industry owning a monster truck dedicated to his father, who raced dragsters under the same name, to winning the 2003 Freestyle World Championship. His two-truck team also includes Chris Bergeron’s Brutus. “Mr. Excitement” is known for his wild freestyles and personality, and is constantly running Avenger and Brutus all over the nation as an independent. Koehler is currently working on a new chassis for Avenger, and was kind enough to take time out and speak with us. We thank him for his time. [Read more…]
Avenger’s Jim Koehler was kind enough to sit down with us recently and give us his thoughts on the summer season, his new chassis, and much more in our newest Monster Profile. We thank Jim for his time. Enjoy!
Adding to the flurry of updates coming into the site, Dustin Hart has checked in with a 100-photo gallery from Monsters on the Beach in Virginia Beach. Links below include our photo updates from the past couple of days:
We have just received an update on the Montreal Monster Jam that took place earlier tonight, and it was a wild one! Three trucks rolled before freestyle, including Tony Farrell’s Blue Thunder during intros. In racing, Maximum Destruction (Tom Meents) rode a side surf that came too far back over, and Jim Koehler’s Avenger also rolled. Racing came down to Linsey Weenk in Iron Outlaw and Jimmy Creten’s Bounty Hunter, with Weenk taking the victory.
The sometimes-tacky, sometimes-slidy Montreal dirt had less of an effect in freestyle, but plenty of work remains to be done on trucks before their next show. Chris Bergeron in Brutus and Jim Koehler in Avenger each caught huge air during their runs, and each broke a wheel off upon landing, Koehler the right front and Bergeron a rear. Koehler continued and ended up rolling to finish his run. Andy Slifko took a liking to Hot Wheels and made the adjustment nicely, getting several solid hits in. Anderson rolled Grave Digger about halfway through his run. Meents took Maximum Destruction through its paces and earned a three way tie for the win with Charlie Pauken (Taz) and Creten, who had a standing start power wheelie included in his run. Meents took the victory by crowd cheer-off.
We thank our contributors for the update and photos from the event will be on the way soon!
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