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| "We’ve come a long way. We’ve got away to go, we get a ton of respect now. A lot of people know Tom Meents first and foremost." |
JR- Some of the people I’ve talked to, are more upset over what happened with Jim Jack and Reptoid in Jacksonville 2004. |
TM- Well, if you actually knew the whole story about that. He came down to me. I backed back in my parking place. He drove down to where I had already backed in and parked. He pulled right up to my door and blew smoke all over me. *Laughs* Ok? Now since that point. He’s done a ton of complaining about it, and I really haven’t said anything about it. The fact of the matter was, I run over tires. I pulled up to his tire and went to run over it. He gassed ahead on me, that’s what hit the fender. It had nothing to do with me; I had a clear shot to go over his tire without hitting his body. |
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JR- I figured there would be a little bit more to that story. |
TM- Yeah, he provoked me. He started it. Am I arrogant and cocky? No. I often get tired of being second fiddle to Digger fans. I’m out here right now, working on my own truck. I do that all the time. I haven’t gotten anything given to me in this sport, and I’ve worked really hard to get there. I worked from 8 in the morning yesterday till midnight. Is it hard for me to go up against a team that has 7 trucks when I have two? Yeah. If you look at any of the freestyles I win, very seldom do I have one given to me. I have to go a good 30% more than them just to win typically. |
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-Tom Meents showing the crowd in St. Louis what it takes to win a freestyle. (Photo By: Josh Rhodes) |
JR- What ever happened to Cheapfoot? |
TM- Oh it’s still out there, still around at my cousins house. He still has it, it doesn’t have the big tires on it right now, but they are there. His son actually did a bunch of work to it about two or three years ago; got it running. Some people like to think I came into monster trucks at about 1993. I was building monster trucks with my cousin and messing around with them on the farm in 1985. That truck, as funny as it was, was about the fourth truck in the world to have 66’s on it. Well, maybe more than four, but something like that. |
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