Gas Monkey Garage

Gas Monkey Garage (Also known simply as Gas Monkey) was a 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee monster truck owned by FELD Motorsports, based on the shop of the same name, which is featured in the Discovery Channel TV show Fast N' Loud. The truck was primarily driven by BJ Johnson, but has also been driven by other drivers on select occasions, including Joe Sylvester and Linsey Weenk.

History[]

2016[]

Gas Monkey Garage debuted on January 16th at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California with BJ Johnson behind the wheel.

In February, after Johnson suffered an injury, Josh Hintz would drive the truck in Fargo, while Joe Sylvester would drive the truck in Arlington and Oakland.

Johnson would return to drive the truck at World Finals XVII. During the show, both truck and driver would be defeated by Morgan Kane in Grave Digger, crashing in the process, and would also finish 31st in freestyle. Meanwhile, Gas Monkey Garage would make a special appearance on Fast N’ Loud, where it would perform a car crush exhibition in front of the shop.

2017[]

Gas Monkey Garage competed on FS1 Championship Series East. Johnson and the truck would be invited to compete in Monster Jam World Finals XVIII, where he would have a much better performance in racing, make it all the way to the semi-final round, only to be defeated by Tyler Menninga and Grave Digger, however, would finish last in freestyle.

That same year, the truck was released in diecast form by Mattel, however, was criticized for missing the pin stripe, headlights and taillights.

2018[]

Gas Monkey Garage competed on Stadium Championship Series 4. During the series, Johnson and the truck would win three overall event championships; one in the series’ opener in Toronto, and two in Oklahoma City. The truck would also win the racing competition in the second Toronto show.

The truck would later be invited to compete at World Finals XIX. Although Johnson would be eliminated in the second round of racing by Jon Zimmer in Dragon, he would have higher success in freestyle, finishing tenth.

In July, the truck made its final competition appearance in the United States in Stafford Springs, Connecticut.

2019[]

Gas Monkey Garage competed exclusively on the International tour.

In April, Linsey Weenk would drive the truck for events in South Africa as a fill-in for Johnson, due to him having to help construct new trucks for FELD Motorsports. The truck would make its final appearance at Sao Paulo, Brazil on December 21st.

2020[]

The truck was slated to compete on the International Tour again however would be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Shortly thereafter, Johnson would announce his initial retirement from driving (Although he would return to driving the following year in Wild Card).

Events competed[]

2016
Date	Event	Driver	Notes
January 16th	Anaheim, CA	B.J. Johnson	Event debut
January 23th	San Diego, CA
January 30th	Glendale, AZ
February 5-7th	Fargo, ND	Josh Hintz
February 13th	Arlington, TX	Joe Sylvester
February 20th	Oakland, CA	Joe Sylvester
February 27th	Vancouver, BC	B.J. Johnson
March 5-6th	El Paso, TX
March 18-19th	Las Vegas, NV (World Finals XVII)
April 9th	Santa Clara, CA
April 23rd	East Rutherford, NJ
May 15th	Salinas, CA		Won racing
June 18th	Nashville, TN
June 25th	Foxborough, MA
July 10-13th	West Lebanon, NY
August 5-6th	New Weston, OH

2017
Date	Event	Driver	Notes
January 21st	San Antonio, TX	B.J. Johnson
January 28th	New Orleans, LA
February 4th	Arlington, TX
February 11th	Indianapolis, IN
February 18th	Houston, TX
March 4th	Detroit, MI
March 24-25th	Las Vegas, NV (World Finals XVIII)
April 8th	Syracuse, NY
April 22nd	Santa Clara, CA
June 10th	Foxborough, MA
June 17th	East Rutherford, NJ
June 24th	Nashville, TN
October 7th	Glendale, AZ
October 14-15th	Laredo, TX		Won: Wheelies, show 1 Racing, shows 1 and 3 Donuts, shows 1 and 3
October 21st	Houston, TX
December 2nd	Minneapolis, MN

2018
Date	Event	Driver	Notes
January 13-14th	Toronto, ON	B.J. Johnson	Won racing, show 2
January 20-21st	San Antonio, TX
January 27th	Houston, TX
February 3rd	Detroit, MI
February 10th	Arlington, TX
February 17-18th	Oklahoma City, OK		Won racing, show 1
February 24-25th	Anaheim, CA
March 3-4th	El Paso, TX
March 23-24th	Las Vegas, NV (World Finals XIX)
July 21-22nd	Stafford Springs, CT		Final US appearance

2019
Date	Event	Driver	Notes
April 20th	Durban, South Africa	Linsey Weenk
April 27th	Cape Town, South Africa
May 4th	Johannesburg, South Africa
October 5th	Melbourne, Australia	B.J. Johnson
November 21-26th	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
December 21st	Sao Paulo, Brazil

World Finals appearances[]

Year	Driver	Results
2016	B.J. Johnson	Qualifying: 10th (16.255)	Racing: defeated in round 3 by Grave Digger	Freestyle: 31st (13)
2017		Qualifying: 5th (16.336)	Racing: defeated in the semi-finals by Grave Digger	Freestyle: 32nd (4.341)
2018		Qualifying: 8th (16.405)	Racing: defeated in round 2 by Dragon	Freestyle: 10th (7.571)

Video game appearances[]

Monster Jam Steel Titans 2

Trivia[]

Gas Monkey Garage is the first of two trucks to be created by Monster Jam to be sponsored by a Discovery Channel show, the second being BroDozer.
The body of Gas Monkey Garage is based off of the 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee project by Gas Monkey, which shares a similar paint scheme to the truck.
Gas Monkey Garage was originally supposed to debut in Houston on January 9th, 2016. However, the Houston Texans won the AFC South title that year, so the January 9th Houston show was postponed until January 24th. This resulted in Gas Monkey Garage debuting in Anaheim and wouldn't even compete in Houston.
Despite not competing anymore, the truck remained on Monster Jam's website until being removed in 2022.