I have been to a number of the "Monster Truck Magness" as my youngest used to call it.
I used to do the math when we went to these things and figured these guys we grossing some serious coin. The Gravedigger guy had it down to an art, and nearly everyone had some sort of his swag. I recall that he even had some sort of video podcast or something, which at the time was pretty progressive. And of course, it required a paid subscription to view it... Dan Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > For my wife's first birthday in Houston after we moved there, I got tickets > to the Monster Truck Show at the Astrodome. Sat right above where the trucks > drove onto the field. It was awesome! Loud as hell. And my wife thoroughly > enjoyed it. The place was packed with 65000 people, mostly families, all > very well behaved, and insanely into the whole thing. Little kids wearing > their tshirts of their favorite trucks, which I found interesting. Kinda > like wrestling. I think that truck got the most response, I vaguely recall > it flipped and rolled a couple of times at one point, the crowd went wild. > the next day I saw a couple of the trucks being hauled to the next venue, the > whole deal on a flatbed trailer with the tires stacked up and the truck down > on stands low enough to clear overpasses. > > --R > > On 6/8/11 8:51 AM, Dan Penoff wrote: >> Say what you want, but the guy that came up with Gravedigger is a marketing >> genius, and probably worth millions.... >> >> Dan >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Rich >> Thomas<richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: >> >>> GRRRRAAAAAAVEDIGGERRRRRR!!! >>> >>> --R >>> >>> On 6/8/11 6:30 AM, Rolf wrote: >>>> http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06/this-new-unimog-looks-like-a-poison-frog/ >>>> >>>> Not quite spinners but well, its quite something else. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
