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Hey, the Flannel Man Monster is pretty sick.

(i.e. Lumbahjack).

I might be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that the bow ties are only features on CRD chassis. CRD makes the mount for them and they are bolt-on pieces that act as a crush point in case the truck takes a hard impact but also doesn't do any "actual" chassis damage. Main testimonial for that was EVO this year after Mikey's first backflip in Vegas:

Yeah, he brought those two trucks from Andy a while back. He's kept it super secret until about a month ago. Paul's daughter Maddie Myers will drive Eradicator and Ty Cornelius' son, Ty Cornelius Jr., will drive the old Backdraft. It will more than likely get a new identity, but I believe Paul is working to get both trucks ready for the summer of 2016, unless he plans on cramming it in and finishing them up for the winter season, too.

Mike was going to try to have it done for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony this year, but there wasn't enough time to finish it. He definitely wants it done by the summer of 2016 to at least have it around as a roller truck for his 35th anniversary celebration. He has a lot of other very cool stuff happening for 2016, however...

This surprises everyone I tell that ask me that question, but no. Mike still has a lot up his sleeve specifically for the next 2 years; especially for his 35th anniversary next year.

There is a very slim chance that Mike Sr. will drive Stallion, but let me reiterate...

...very slim...

Si.

The Schotts have two phenomenal pieces, and Hooligan looks and runs excellent. I'm anticipating a pretty darn good debut event for Jr.

Maybe...

...no, not actually.

They're taking whatever good parts are left on it and throwing it on Cory's new truck (which he is designing and building himself with Jimmy financing it), and the chassis itself is getting scrapped because it's probably one of the most patched-up, abused frames in all of monster truck racing today (besides Wrecking Crew).

Your first quarter schedule is already way more packed than mine. The tables have turned for 2016...

Yeah, that's the Black Stallion chassis with the Overkill Evolution body on it. The Iron Warrior and Overkill Evolution chassis should be back from Mexico City, MX now, but they weren't back in time to make it up to Markham, ON, so Mike, Mikey, and Matt threw the EVO body on Stallion and is running it like that for 4 more shows (2 in Topsfield, MA today, 1 more in Markham, ON tomorrow, and 1 in Simcoe, ON on Thursday).

Blame Swift, not DanDon. 

The fact that someone wants to spread the rumor of JP getting fired for having an affair is utter stupidity. I'm not going to say much more on it.

You're gonna wanna tone down the spec map on those headers. They do have shine to them, but they're not chrome like that. Some of the Magnaflow zoomies that Feld trucks run are chrome, though.

I think it'll pass USHRA tech...

There are 2 Black Stallion bodies: the Safety-Kleen one and the regular one. The regular one has been on Matt's truck (which is Iron Warrior) since the beginning of August while the Safety-Kleen body mainly stays on Mike's truck. The Safety-Kleen body is still here in the States while they kept the regular body on Matt's truck when it got shipped down to Mexico on the 15th. Matt, I think, is only running this body for 1 more show this season, but things could change. They keep 2 Stallion bodies around for the sake of promoters wanting the Black Stallion name to run at their show but the name could be double-booked in 1 weekend. For example, next weekend, Mike will drive the Safety-Kleen Black Stallion up at a small show in Canada while Matt runs the regular Stallion body at a show in Topsfield, MA.

I do believe you are right, good sir.

I didn't know that. I know Overkill Evolution and them use 'em, but aren't they just spears from 2014?

 Mike brought 8 EcoWork tires in late 2013 and 2 more as spares in late 2014, so he's got a total of 10 tires still on the property.

Because the EcoWork tires had too deep of a cleat when it was initially produced, the whole fleet of Feld trucks had the edges chopped off of them to reduce all sorts of different things, from clumps of dirt getting thrown into the crowd to parts breaking off the truck and getting grabbed by the edges and getting flung off the truck. Thank God nothing like that happened, but it's a preventative measure that was taken and is very wise. 

The difference between EcoWork tires and BKT tires are that BKT designed a tire for the sole purpose of monster truck racing that's extremely light and a little light on the tread so that it can be used in all sorts of applications (dirt, mud, concrete, sand, etc.). EcoWork just produced lightweight agricultural tires using recycled materials and they just so happened to make a bad ass 66"x43"x25" agricultural tire that worked out to be one of the best tires to ever be used in monster truck racing, cut or uncut.

Are you crazy?

The mold is up for sale because EcoWork fell through because of the crap going on over in the Ukraine.

To me, the entire roll cage looks like it's sitting a bit farther forward as compared to Cohen chassis that run standard truck bodies. I'm not chassis expert by any means, but that was the first thing I noticed. The tubing from the front shock towers to the roll cage looks a little bit stubbier than regular Cohen chassis.

I'm sure that if she had the benefit of flying show-to-show and being able to arrive late Thursday night to an arena and be outta there by Sunday night that she'd be able to do a full first quarter schedule. But Calgary might just be it for a while now since she's going to college in Georgia.

I'm still hurt by that.

I remember looking up the Thrasher theme song before and I do remember the name of the song being "Thrasher", but I can't remember who the band was.

Wildwood was... wild. 3 trucks blew engines, and Josh was fortunate enough that Rick drove his hauler from Canada to Wildwood instead of Canada to the shop, but Josh would have been out of a truck for Saturday night. Bigfoot #14, Higher Education, and Avenger suffered engine damage all at the Saturday afternoon show. Koehler lost oil pressure twice in freestyle, and at the night show, he broke the nose off the crank shaft and toasted his engine. Everyone broke something that weekend, but the only truck with very little breakage was Walking Tall, proving why Maxie won KOTB. I never expected him to run as hard as he did, but dang, he tore it up. And the updated racing course definitely proved to be a great one, because it was the best racing I've ever seen at Wildwood.