Wild Stang.
Wild Stang was a Ford Mustang monster truck owned by Cliff Starbird that competed from 1985-1989. The truck is well known for its major crash, which occurred in Cayuga Ontario Canada during Labor Day weekend in 1988. The truck did a car crush following the same from Monster Vette and a few others. The truck jumped the cars, doing a wheelie, then came crashing down and flipped forward, almost flipping back onto its wheels, but with not enough momentum to do so, the truck rolled back, leaving driver Barry Packard (NOTE: some sources say it was Cliff himself driving) trapped underneath the truck. The incident was similar to that of Paula Harbuck's crash in Bear Foot (which is the first recorded monster truck crash), however, while Harbuck was stuck for only a short time, Packard was stuck for an entire 45 minutes before being finally freed. Thankfully, he was not seriously injured in the crash. In the early days of monster truck competition, crashes were seldom and so trucks were not particularly designed with crashes in mind. Also, with today's monster trucks weighing in at 10,000lbs, old school monster trucks were much heavier than that, with some weighing in as heavy as 13,000lbs, 33% or 1/3 heavier than today's standard. This incident could very well be the main driving force to evolve the design of the monster truck to achieve higher standards of safety. Even outside of the crash, the truck was very controversial due to its design, primarily its lack of a roll cage or even a roof.
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