Monster Trucks

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Tue 22 Aug 2006 23:04
Monster Trucks - Big Bad Dave
I used to love monster trucks 20 years or so ago. I remember the first Big Foot which was a genuine pick-up modified to take those five foot tyres. Fantastic.

I was just watching the Big Foot feature on Vroom Vroom - what a load of rubbish. All they are now is a scaffolding frame work with a huge engine in the middle and a fragile "truck-shaped" plastic shell bolted on top. They are more "building site" than "monster truck".

I want my money back.
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Tue 22 Aug 2006 23:14
Monster Trucks - Altea Ego
woa there tiger.

There is a traveling monster truck show (has madmen on bikes as well) that shows up and down the west coast of France.

Took junior when we were on holiday. Bigfoot clone jumps in air over first car, drivergives it too much welly , ti tips up and lands on its rear wheels which promptly shear off

Excelent value for money.


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Tue 22 Aug 2006 23:27
Monster Trucks - Big Bad Dave
But it's not a truck, it's a facsimile.
In the same way that a huge hot-air inflatable budweiser can is not a can of beer - it's a balloon.
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Tue 22 Aug 2006 23:49
Monster Trucks - Altea Ego
Facsimilie = An exact copy or reproduction


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Wed 23 Aug 2006 00:19
Monster Trucks - Big Bad Dave
If you're not going to agree with me, then I'm going to say bye

A truck has windy windows, an ash tray, cup holders, a hand brake and an engine under the hood...

That to which whom you are refering to is a grotesque charade of tubes, pipes and building materials masquerading as a truck. The doors don't open, the bonnet doesn't lift, the windows don't wind, the ash tray doesn't ash.

If I painted a replica of a door for you on a solid brick wall, would it still be a door?
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Wed 23 Aug 2006 00:43
Monster Trucks - v8man
If I painted a replica of a door for you on a solid brick wall, would it still be a door?>>


But then it wouldn't be a Facsimilie either would it?
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