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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #420 on: April 22, 2018, 10:51:05 AM »
Ive been following since you started. Thats so awsome to see it up and going. Love the old school monster trucks.

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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #421 on: April 23, 2018, 09:56:56 AM »
So, it’s official today!

The truck this thread is about will be at the Bigfoot Open House! (Yeah, THE Bigfoot)

So if you are in the StLouis area on June 2 come out and see the Maiden America Monster Truck!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=429809407443101&id=387330345024341

https://www.facebook.com/bigfoot4x4inc/posts/10156306173636873
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #422 on: April 27, 2018, 09:35:01 PM »
I plan on having it on display. Right now I have 4 dates in 2018 for sure if I can make it.

One will be in Zieg’s backyard. (hint Carl)



Planning on it, just gotta know when and where.  Maybe I'll drive my extended cab there.  Really be cool to get a picture of both side by side for kicks...


Carl, are you going to be able to come out to Pacific on the 2nd of June?
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #423 on: April 27, 2018, 10:38:16 PM »
I plan on having it on display. Right now I have 4 dates in 2018 for sure if I can make it.

One will be in Zieg’s backyard. (hint Carl)



Planning on it, just gotta know when and where.  Maybe I'll drive my extended cab there.  Really be cool to get a picture of both side by side for kicks...


Carl, are you going to be able to come out to Pacific on the 2nd of June?
yes, please send details
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #424 on: April 30, 2018, 08:40:49 PM »
I plan on having it on display. Right now I have 4 dates in 2018 for sure if I can make it.

One will be in Zieg’s backyard. (hint Carl)



Planning on it, just gotta know when and where.  Maybe I'll drive my extended cab there.  Really be cool to get a picture of both side by side for kicks...


Carl, are you going to be able to come out to Pacific on the 2nd of June?
yes, please send details

If I can find time I will call you in the next day or so. Is your number (H, IN) still the same as it was?
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #425 on: May 11, 2018, 09:13:00 PM »
You should bring that baby and camp out at the campground at Talladega nascar race

Since it’s private property apparently lots of people bring their monster trucks and drive em around the campground

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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #426 on: May 20, 2018, 08:17:07 PM »
You should bring that baby and camp out at the campground at Talladega nascar race

Since it’s private property apparently lots of people bring their monster trucks and drive em around the campground

Wife and I are planning on buying an 18-wheeler to haul the monster. Once that happens we’ll only be constrained by our ability to afford diesel fuel.
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #427 on: June 18, 2018, 06:34:33 PM »
Here is a video someone posted on YouTube of the 2018 Bigfoot 4x4 Open House.

See if you recognize any of the trucks. 8)

https://youtu.be/7MkoJuuPMf4
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #428 on: March 15, 2019, 05:19:36 PM »
Hey gang!

Remember me?

I haven’t forgot about you guys. Have you been checking out the truck’s Facebook page? We have been posting more on it because it is easier to upload pictures. I’ll be more reliable about posting here when I do more to the truck.

Not much has been done to the truck lately. We bought a Freightliner Century to haul the monster with. Right now any work on the ‘77 has been held up largely because we are saving funds to buy a trailer for the Freightshaker. As with this whole project nothing is financed. It’s a hobby. No cash, no joy. So everything is sort of on hold until the trailer is bought.

We just found out that Bigfoot has invited us back to display our truck at their open house so it would be great if we can get a trailer before that happens.

Stay in touch,
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #429 on: March 15, 2019, 06:09:29 PM »
  Being invited to show your truck at the Big Foot open house is a monster accomplishment (see what I did there, ha ha).
  You must be proud of the truck you designed & built.
  The members on this forum were lucky to have had the opportunity to watch the progress of this build.  We got to watch it from the start to where it will be shown alongside Big Foot.
  Truly impressive.
  Congratulations
  Fitz.
« Last Edit: March 15, 2019, 06:28:24 PM by fitz »

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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #430 on: March 15, 2019, 07:37:02 PM »
Very succinct and eloquently stated, Fitz.  I agree wholeheartedly.  It's been a privilege to watch Engineer's build evolve from plan to reality!  Impressive, indeed!
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #431 on: November 25, 2019, 05:22:38 PM »
Hey gang!

Just curious, are all of the pictures gone out of this thread or am I the only one who can’t see them?

I had a crazy bad time of keeping the pictures viewable before. My choice to use gaggle for the photo host for this thread may have been folly. In case there are still a few people who resist fakebook I had intended to keep this thread up to date.

Been doing a few shows with the monster truck. Even have a real nice semi truck and trailer to haul the whole thing around with. At this point I’m trying to figure out if updating this thread is worth it or not. This is the only place the building of the Maiden America monster truck is documented anywhere on the Internet. However, the text is worthless without pictures. To put all of the pictures back would be monumental. The permanent files I have that built this thread contain over 500 pictures. It would take forever to put them all back.......and I had already began to do it from a prior temper tantrum between our isp at the time and gargle.

Well anyway. I sure miss the camaraderie of this forum.

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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #432 on: November 25, 2019, 05:40:55 PM »
This issue is cropping up with greater frequency.  Servers change.  Files are renamed, relocated or removed.  Addresses change.  The end result is link failure. 
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #433 on: February 12, 2020, 05:34:04 PM »
So, I have a really cool announcement to make.

I think this is a pretty neat way to validate our childhood dream. Our truck, the one that this thread is the subject of, will be forever immortalized in a toy die cast replica.

Greenlight toys is going to release it in their Kong’s of Crunch line. We will be part of series 7. I don’t have any way of sharing a picture at the moment. Right now all there is available are the design department’s artist rendering. Their 1d picture looks pretty sweet.

I am going to include a link to one of the online hobby shops that will offer it for sale. I hope this doesn’t cross any forum boundaries. It’s only picture I can find to share. Of course there are pictures on our monster truck’s fakebook page. Problem with that is you can’t link to those pictures from here.

https://www.3000toys.com/mobi/detail.aspx?sku=GREENLIGHT49070-A

What do you guys think? Pretty cool to see this build reach the levels that it has.
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Re: My '77 K-30/V3500 Monster Truck Build
« Reply #434 on: February 12, 2020, 07:53:26 PM »
cool deal and ill prob WILL be getting one two (one for me and one for the kid). but i cant see the pictures now for some reason and it never dawned on me about the front clip. do you have a 80s front clip on or did they make a mistake?
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