Union Grove, WI - PENDA Day 2

[kouvre]

Fred Shafer - Bearfoot V
Andy Brass - Bigfoot VIII
Colt Cobra (Gene Patterson) - Snake Bite (Bigfoot IV)
Gary Porter - Carolina Crusher III
Scott Stephens - Auto Value King Krunch
Jack Willman, Jr. - Taurus III
John Moore - No Problem II
Steve Hess - Nitemare III
David Morris - Equalizer
Jon Breen - Micro Machine
Don Van Loo - Bad Medicine
Wayne Smozanek - Tropical Thunder
-Stephens suffered a minor crash during qualifying

ROUND 1:
Brass d. Breen
Morris d. Smozanek
Willman d. Van Loo
Porter d. Stephens (another minor crash)
Hess d. Cobra (Patterson)
Shafer d. Moore

Round 2:
Brass d. Morris
Willman d. Porter
Shafer d. Hess

Semifinals:
Brass d. Willman (both trucks broke, but Bigfoot managed to crawl past the finish line)
Shafer d. Porter (had trouble stopping at the end of the course and made tire-to-tire contact with Shafer)

Finals:
Shafer d. Brass

Notes:
-The track appeared to have been modified in some form to allow for two sets of cars in a safe manner. The previous day, Snake Bite suffered two crashes due to the short shutdown area, first rolling over in qualifying, then the infamous Round 1 crash that saw the truck destroy a storage shed off to the side of the track. Following this crash, the remainder of Day 1 racing was restricted to a one-jump race course.
-This was the first televised Trucks and Tractor Power show to feature Morris driving Equalizer since he took a sabbatical early in the 1990 TNT season to help care for his newborn daughter Mallory.
-Other trucks that were in attendance in Union Grove but did not make the event included Mike Vaters' Black Stallion (who made the Day 1 field), Milwaukee Iron, the 48-inch tired truck OverXcited, and the Hall brothers' Big Boss.

[Tim Smith]

Is this when Snake Bite humped the shed?

[DiggerFan]

71m07hysm17h said:

Is this when Snake Bite humped the shed?

I think that was day 1 when that happened... but it was the same year & location.

[twiztidfan13]

why did they keep moving the cars at the start they had them close to each other and they had em spread apart

[dave3ba]

That was mostly due to the trucks not touching the 2nd-4th cars. This way they could save a little bit of money, since they weren't needed by the newer trucks. It did cause a problem for some of the older, slower ones, however.

[dave3ba]

Track: Outdoors, a set of 2 cars and a set of 7 cars with a gap in between the first and second cars. Finish line is at the end of the cars.

Lineup:
Scott Stephens drove King Krunch III at this event.

[kouvre]

That was King Krunch IV or V by this point. Don't forget that Scott had two King Krunch trucks running back in 1985, then built another truck for TNT, and also had an S-10 Blazer version running around at one point. I don't know if the S-10 Blazer was the original version with a different body, but I'm fairly sure this wasn't King Krunch III.

[dave3ba]

Here's how I look at it:

Stephens' original King Krunch was the long-bed truck, shortly thereafter, he built the second King Krunch, which was the S-10. At one point, it did have a cab on it. Believe it or not, it was this truck, but modified, that he raced in 1987 and 1988 with TNT. Then he took most of 1989 off to build King Krunch III, which was still the same truck, although modified here and there, all the way up until his 4-link truck he built in late 1991, that debuted in the Astrodome I think (it was just called the Auto Value Special at first). King Krunch IV was the truck that Stephens had at the '92 SE events.