Pontiac, MI USHRA

[Ryan Smith]

Date: March 1st.

Venue: Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MI

Track: Both trucks start on top of a hill, then hit three cars, a set of whoop-dee-doos, another set of three cars, and another hill. Finish line is at the top of the second hill.

LINEUP:
Jim Kramer (Bigfoot IV), Ken Koelling (Bigfoot I), Jeff Dane (Awesome Kong II), Kirk Dabney (Blue Thunder), Brett Engleman (Michigan Ice Monster), Diehl Wilson (Virginia Giant), Don Maples (Samson), Alan Tura (Goliath)

ROUND 1:
Wilson def. Engleman
Kramer def. Koelling
Dabney def. Dane
Maples def. Tura

ROUND 2:
Kramer def. Wilson
Dabney def. Maples

FINAL ROUND:
Kramer def. Dabney

Results courtesy Bite Me Studios

NOTE:

-This event's results were included in their entirety in the 1987 commercial VHS "Monster Madness," released by the USHRA.

[theace27]

Side note: Jake Henke (Aces High) was also at this event. It was the first USHRA meet it ran at, it was there only to do wheelstand exibitions.

[DiggerFan]

Here's footage from the event:

[Tim T]

Boy I love this board! Just found it and I'm in bliss!

Correction to the Bigfoot lineup. Looked like Chandler in the pics but if you notice Bob Chandler and Andy Brass are on the sidelines. It's actually Ken Koelling in #1 and Jim Kramer in #4.

Later on you can see Koelling watching Kramer win and he's wearing his driving jacket.

Great board guys!

[Tim Smith]

So Ken was in the Bigfoot that lost in the first round of competition? Wow, didn't know that, thats pretty cool lol

[tim]

Yep. For years I thought it was Chandler until I saw a vid and noticed that Chandler is on the sidelines with Brass. Also, I've seen a photo of Ken messing with the flag on his truck.

The announcer is wrong too because Kramer's truck is obviously Bigfoot #4 with the planetaries and 85 body.

Was this the only time that Kramer ever raced another Bigfoot driver in a full sized truck? I know the shuttle in 87 but I always wanted to see Kramer in #6 race Hoosier in #4 back in their day.

Tim

[dave3ba]

I have an old Bigfoot video, and it shows a short clip of a track similar to this one, with Bigfoots 1 and 2 (I think) racing each other. I don't believe it is the same event, but I could be wrong.

[theace27]

The date of this show is March 1st 1986