Apple pie, baseball, and 12,000 pound trucks doing backflips off of walls.

Monster trucks are an American staple so deeply-rooted that many have never lived in a world without them. But the humble origins of these machines only actually dates back to early 1980s, when one man, Bob Chandler, drove his 1974 F-250 over a pair of junked cars, and changed the entire entertainment world forever.

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