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Old 06-01-2011, 11:27 AM   #1
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Default Monster Truck Beetle can swim too!!!
Who needs a boat when you got a beetle...

Can you imagine taking this down to lake on the weekends????

Turn up the volume the comments are funny in the beginning.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twocy...eature=related
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reminds me of this old national lampoon ad.

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Fun to see but not surprising, monster trucks have been doing this since the original Bigfoot trucks.
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Fun to see but not surprising, monster trucks have been doing this since the original Bigfoot trucks.
Really? I didn't know that.. Big Foot trucks really floated like that?

I always thought those bigger monster trucks would sink or be too top heavy and tip with all that extra suspension height and weight.

This Beetle seemed really light in weight and I thought this was a rarity.. Shit!!!

Alot of air in those tires I guess.... Hmmmm...

Well I guess you learn something new everyday then, thanks!!!...
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This Beetle seemed really light in weight and I thought this was a rarity.. Shit!!!

Alot of air in those tires I guess.... Hmmmm...

Well I guess you learn something new everyday then, thanks!!!...
I guarantee you that beetle still weighs over 7k lbs.
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reminds me of this old national lampoon ad.
Why can't we have ads like this today??? EPIC

Also, what did the Kennedy brothers have in common? They all died of something lodged in their brain.
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Really? I didn't know that.. Big Foot trucks really floated like that?

I always thought those bigger monster trucks would sink or be too top heavy and tip with all that extra suspension height and weight.

This Beetle seemed really light in weight and I thought this was a rarity.. Shit!!!

Alot of air in those tires I guess.... Hmmmm...

Well I guess you learn something new everyday then, thanks!!!...
Yup, I used to have some video tapes and books with pictures of them racing monster trucks across ponds/small lakes.

But they WERE top heavy and could easily flip over in the water, making it very dangerous to do. Likely a large reason why they don't do that anymore. Well that and the modern monster truck has a low mounted engine which would be submerged.
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neat..
anyone have the pic of when Bear Foot flipped over in the river?
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A VW Beetle? Kinda takes the 'manly' out of monster trucks doesn't it? Should've used an El Camino or even a Camaro at the least...lol
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Why can't we have ads like this today??? EPIC

Also, what did the Kennedy brothers have in common? They all died of something lodged in their brain.
IIRC, VW was pissed at NL for posting that and demanded a retraction, so NL posted the same ad and it said "If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagon, he still wouldn't be president"
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http://www.bigfoot4x4.com/firsts.html

Bigfoot 1 first to float on water in 1982. Bigfoot 2 raced a paddle boat in a river in '85.
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Thats not the first Bug to float....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qB0lb401ZU

And not the first VW made to float....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Schwimmwagen
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Thats not the first Bug to float....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qB0lb401ZU

And not the first VW made to float....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Schwimmwagen
I believe that's the commercial that National Lampoon was spoofing with that Ted Kennedy ad.
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