SKOAL BANDITS

OWNER: Golden State Promotions, Santa Barbara, CA.

VEHICLE: 1958 Chevy Cameo

ENGINE: V-12 Jaguar was later replaced with a 468 cu.in. Chevy in 1987

CARBURETION: 2 Predators

HORSEPOWER: 750

TRANSMISSION: TH 400

RUNNING GEAR: SCS 3:1 reduction drop box, Rockwell military 5 ton axles

SUSPENSION: 16 Rancho shocks and custom leafs

TIRES: 66X43X25 inch Goodyear Terras

FEATURES: triple roll bar with 6 lights, and emergency flasher

HEIGHT: 11 feet

WIDTH: 12 feet

WEIGHT: 15,000 lbs.

This was the first monster I ever saw. It came on base to the PX in 29 Palms, Ca. in 1986.

This is me in 1986 stationed in 29 Palms, CA.

Dennis in 86

Sorry about the picture quality, but they were taken with one of those old crappy Disc cameras.

I scanned these shots from Bill Holder's book "Monstrous Trucks". Photography by Harry Dunn.

I scanned these pictures from Magazines that I purchased.

From Don Sheehey

From Landon Harrison

These are shots from Ted Hutchens (Mr. Bad).

Steve Hurt sent me these shots.

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This is a model I built for Jim Ries. It was built using a Bigfoot and a Cameo models.

Cost to build; $25.oo Time to build: 30 hours Scale; 1/25 th

Features; Hand Fabricated V-12 from 2 Jaguar straight 6s, 4 headers, and added the emergency flasher from a Monster tow truck.

Completely hand painted.

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