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The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec)
October 2, 1992, Friday, FINAL EDITION
Monster trucks invade Big O to create mayhem, crush cars
BYLINE: JOHN GRIFFIN; GAZETTE
SECTION: ENTERTAINMENT: PREVIEW; OUT AND ABOUT; Pg. C1/BREAK
LENGTH: 469 words
What do Bart Simpson and 30,000 Montrealers have in common? Two words: monster trucks.
There's something about giant pickups with oversized wheels, humongous tires and thunderous ****ler systems that strikes a nerve in snot-nosed TV cartoon characters and almost everyone else.
You may love them. You may hate them. But anyone who's ever searched for a parking space will admit there's something appealing about a car that can park wherever it likes.
That's part of the monster-truck mystique, and a reason why organizers are expecting 30,000 for tomorrow night's GMC Motor Spectacular '92 at the Olympic Stadium.
These rigs don't feed meters. They don't parallel park. They don't pay some guy for the privilege of scratching their fenders and stubbing butts in their ashtrays.
No, when they find a spot that suits them, they gun their 572- cubic-inch engines with the 871 BDS blowers and MSD fuel-injection systems, rear up in the air like mechanical dragons and climb on top of whatever happens to be parked where they want to park. Car, truck, bus, green onion - they crush them like bugs. You got a problem with that?
Nope. Ever since the original motorhead came up with the idea to take an assembly-line Detroit vehicle, trick it up with $ 75,000 worth of heavy-duty everything and put it into battle against other chariots just like it, monster truck rallies have been attracting crowds like ants to the company picnic.
The sport - some would call it entertainment, and it is that, too - first took off in the American Midwest in 1978, and has since swept the continent. Almost 50,000 men, women and children watched two nights of mayhem at the Olympic Stadium in May '91.
Here's what we can expect tomorrow:
* A Monster Truck Challenge: TV stars Bigfoot, Snake Bite, Carolina Crusher, Samson, Show-N-Off and Cana-dian champion Weapon 1 crush many helpless cars.
* The Super Pull Nationals: Watch savvy drivers in pickup trucks drag enormous dead weights for money.
* Turbo Tim Arfons and Titan: Tim attempts a ramp-to-ramp jump over 10 cars in his jet-powered rig Titan.
* Exploding Chair of Doom: Crazy Mike Rossi detonates 1.5 pounds of dynamite within 30 centimetres of his body.
* Double Steel Wall Car Crash: Mike Rossi, if he's still around, drives a car through two other cars.
* Demolition Derby: Once a classic, always a classic.
A word of advice - bring earplugs. This stuff is loud.
* The GMC Motor Spectacular '92 takes place at the Olympic Stadium tomorrow beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $ 16 to $ 18 for adults, and $ 10 for children 12 and under. Free toy monster trucks for the kids. Tickets available at Admission or charge by phone (790-1245). Toll free 1-800361-4595. Tickets also sold at the Olympic Stadium box office, ticket window 103.
LOAD-DATE: October 3, 1992
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
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