Travis

I made the Grayslake track. It was made as a part of a Paul Shafer Motorsporta mini series.

Did you guys ever stop to think that the truck is suppose to be ugly? It's a good idea for a truck. Especially with how zombies have become a huge part of American pop culture. Sure, it could of had better execution, but it's different. People will complain apparently about every truck..

I'm about 80% that Zimmer is going to end up in the new Digger. Rumor is that he isn't with Mohler anymore, that and the fact that the XXX team isn't running Excaliber anymore. It wouldn't be Dustin Brown, with such little driving experience. Zimmer has driven a Digger before, and his driving style is exactly what FELD would find as the perfect driving style to fit the Digger persona. Remember, Minny in December IS before the first quarter, a lot of things are going to change even after that show.

King Krunch 2012, Big Kahuna or SPEED Bigfoot?

I wish detour and bigfoot nation were released, then I would have the complete line up of my hometown show!

Because the color of the texture on the chassis, and the way Bigfoot had to modify the cradle to fit the ZF axles, and that is a CRD chassis, it's 19.

Phenomenal work, Nick. Looks perfect. Only thing I can say is I think the rear bumper sticks out a little too far past the body.

I've read that the new cage rules only apply to chassis that are built AFTER January 2013.

new truck called hotsy . also fatal attraction .

Hotsy is just the Raminator truck. It will sponsored by Hotsy. Still running with Rammunition.

I'm getting sick of all the ranting people are making on the Bigfoot Facebook about it being a chevy. For one, this is not Bigfoot straying from Ford. Bigfoot will always stay true to their roots. They are not slowly shifting their trucks to the bow tie. The MLB Bigfoot was a Chevy for the fact that Chevy sponsors MLB, making sponsors happy is priority one. Now there are a coupel reasons 19 is a Chevy. For one, Robby runs Chevy. Simple enough. For two, Robby was building this truck originally with a Chevy block, so Bigfoot decided to use a Chevy grill so that the truck wasn't a half breed. I'd rather see them match with the engine than have a Ford body and a Chevy engine. Besides that, people need to realize Ford or Chevy shouldn't be the name they have to worry about, the name they should worry about is Bigfoot, and that's never going to change anyways.

Any idea when S3 information will start to pop up?

14 had pretty standard shock placement to the other PEIs.

Looks great, Klayton. Love the quality. Only thing I can say about the banners is that they should probably be lengthened out a little more, trucks are a little too close to the logos.

I am very disappointed that not everyone wished me a happy birthday, I am just going to have kill my self now by too much masturbation to meatspin

What the hell. Nice to know you guys can get into my account. Cool. And it's not my Birthday.

The reason they use the El Toro name so much instead of any Bulldozer is because El Toro Loco merchandise sells much better than Bulldozer merchandise.

I really like that Anaheim, nice to see some creativity with the table top obstacles.

Just a question about all the new trucks in general. Will all of the trucks be consistent in having the new features (i.e shock shafts, sponsor panels, etc.)? I only ask because in the teasers, some of the trucks have these things, some things don't. I'm not complaining by any means, I'm just curious considering how much work it takes to add all these things to each truck. Everything looks awesome.

Will Razin' Kane have the current paint? Everything looks awesome!

I don't recall who it was that made the leafer Taurus, but they did a fantastic job. That concept needs to be brought forward and evolved, it would be great to have a bunch of leafers,

At this time, I had joined Alex Vester in Chaos Racing for a while, which provided great benefits and would bring me to new markets. After about this time, I made myself a shop, as I was teaching myself how to use Traxx. Just wanted something kind of cool that fit myself and the truck well. Here was home base for Mountain Dew in Rice Lake, WI:

The bare chassis had belonged to Josh Rhodes, who was the winningest driver in MTM2, who was starting his own team for the next first quarter. He announced me as the the driver of his old chassis, which was to be named Half Breed, the chassis was sitting in my shop being rebuilt. Due to SPHRA ending soon after, the negotiations with Josh had ended abruptly.

Planned on turning this into a ride truck:

SPHRA was gone but WMTCS took it's place, which threw Mountain Dew in focusing to the top. I had decided to stay an independent team and recruited Eric Myers and Urban Assault to join me in forming Sewilo Racing.

With this, Mountain Dew's scheme was slightly altered and Jordon Robson of team KPR was hired to make the changes, which looked great. Much better quality than my design.

With these changes came a redesign to the shop, fitted and equipped for the now two truck team:

And that basically the wrap up of Mountain Dew as WMTCS only lasted one short season, and the community slowly drifted afterwards. But trust me, that is not the end of the book for Mountain Dew.

Last thing I have is just a couple of tracks. CFMTS put on a three show series featuring trucks and tracks used by Paul Shafer motorsports at the time, and there was an overall championship for these three shows. This was my first ever released track, Grayslake, IL. Don't mind the awful mismatched textures. Other than that though, I felt this was a great track for a first. The ramps were good, and it had a huge fair ground atmosphere.

And the last was the very first championship event for CFMTS, which was a huge event. Ryan McCauley had started and nearly completed this track, before his mysterious disappearance that lasted for months. Luckily, I was able to obtain it. I had to finish and place some last details, do the ramps, and other things that don't come to mind. But it was a great track, and he worked very hard on the textures and models, and it shows.

Alright, I'm done rambling. But it was fun to reminisce and look through all my old Photobucket pictures. Hope to see some more posts on this! Thanks for taking the time to read all of this guys.

Oh boy. MTM2 were some of the best times, and have ultimately lead me to being able to work with Monster Jam, and know some of the awesome people I know. This is a GREAT thread, it's pretty cool to see the start to finish progression of the personal trucks that I knew you guys as in several leagues. I guess I'll show you guys the little bit of work I was able to do before the death of the game.

I'll start with my couple of replicas I made:

Martial Law 2009 was my first release, just because I only knew the bare basics of Binedit and found it to be an easy project, all I really did was take the existing Martial Law made by the great Scott Bergman, delete the bells and whistles the truck had previously, and did miner paint and texture up dates.

My second and last released replica Amsoil Shock Therapy 2009. I was really proud of this one, as I had gained a lot more knowledge about Binedit from my first replica, to my last. I was so pleased with it because I had paid a lot of attention to details and did some things a lot of people didn't tend to do with their replicas. I was able to add the custom Holbrook engine plate, changed the color of the "bird catcher," retextured the valve colors, and the bands on the engine, as well as gold valves that ran from the shocks to the bypass. I also retextured the sponsor plate, which was actually difficult. Interesting note, you can notice the white outline on the sponsor panel, which i had just used as a guide in Photoshop to tell me where the edges were, and I forgot to delete them. :$ But several custom trucks and even a couple replicas were based off of this truck, which is only noticeable because of the outline on the sponsor panel. And none of these things even sounded like a big deal, but they were to me. I got some help from Jordan Holland in way of the retextured wheels, and Ryan McCauley for the unreleased collector headers that are exact to what SIR had been using at the time. I also wanted to make a major paint update, but I was incapable at the time and it was hard to track down help for it. I won a couple titles in CFMTS with this truck, and ran it in every replica league I could. Here are a couple shots:

Before the new shocks:

Now veering away from that novel about something not overly impressive, myself and Austin Grams had started a league called CFMTS (County Fair Monster Truck Series), which in my opinion, was one of the best organized and most competitive replica series in my time with MTM2. CFMTS focused on side acts in order to create a fun atmosphere for our competitors, and this was one of the featured acts at a lot of shows. All I did was repaint the Predator Trax and made the CFMTS Masher tracked vehicle:

And now, OH BOY, my baby, Mountain Dew. If you can't tell from all of this that I love Mountain Dew, get yourself checked out. Mountain Dew was created from running in the SPHRA series. Before Mountain Dew, I was signed as a back up driver for team PMR, which was the FELD fleet for SPHRA. I only ran a couple shows with them, and did fairly well. The base of Mountain Dew was Scott Bergman's Sudden Impact. After a body, shock, tire, and paint swap, this was the first version of the truck:

Before I even debuted the truck competitively, I got really sick of the shocks sticking through the axles, and just ended up not enjoying the style as much as I thought I would. I quickly switched to more conventional shocks that came of of Jet's 2009 Team Suzuki truck, as the yellow ring on the shocks appealed to me, and retexturing those to the green color I was using on the body would give the truck a little bit more detail. I also switched to the standard FELD collector. Here is a photo of the truck at the VML Open House, where people would see Mountain Dew for the first time amongst it's other competitors:

Mountain Dew made it's competitive debut at a large stadium in Irving Texas, putting on a respectable showing. Part way into the season, I decided to support some fellow teammates by purchasing BBR's new Afterburner Liftoff headers, and I was the first customer to receive them. These headers stayed for the life of the truck in MTM2.

Also at this point in the season, I decided to make a summer scheme. Mountain Dew Throwback had just been announced, which the look of was very different than what it is now. But I loved this paint job because I had found a new grill to use, and it was a very simple paint job that perfectly matched the product. These shots were taken before the header change, just to show off what I would run in the summer season:

Looks great guys.

Lupe wasn't it was Seasock and Krml lol.

They didn't plan to hit eachother.

The video of Taz wasn't from this year.