Slingshot

Slingshot is a Chevrolet Silverado monster truck out of Daventry, England. The truck is best known for being driven by Karl Swallow until 2012, when he tragically passed away. His nephew Alan Vaughan continues to campaign the truck. A little known fact is the chassis was one of the first Patrick Chassis ever built. It was built for Everett Jasmer to be the USA-1 race truck, however the construction never started, possibly due to the partnership he had with Dabney and the Hall Bros. At some point, it was sold overseas and would become Slingshot.

History[]

2003 - Karl Swallow devises the Slingshot concept when he decides to move from street legal monster trucks to racing monster trucks.
2004 - Karl debuts Slingshot at the Pro-MT Race event in Kent, England. The truck runs a basic fuel engine as opposed to the methanol engines of other trucks.
2005 - The truck competes in the 2005 European Monster Truck Racing Championship, finishing in third place. Slingshot also appears at its first Monster Jam event at the Gelredome in Arnhem as part of the European Tour, making it the first European truck to ever compete on the Monster Jam circuit.
2006 - Slingshot debuts a new dark blue color scheme and is upgraded to compete on the same level as other racing monster trucks. The truck now features a full blown methanol engine producing 1800HP, F-106 Centres and Clark Planeteries axles replacing the original JCB ones and a Coan 2-speed gearbox, replacing the former Turbo 400 gearbox. The old chassis becomes Extreme.
2007 - The improved Slingshot debuts at the Santa Pod Raceway and Karl later becomes the first European driver to jump over a bus. The truck joins the Monster Jam European Tour once again, even competing in Karl's home turf in Cardiff.
2009 - Slingshot debuts a new purple color scheme and paint job.
2011 - Slingshot competes in the third Bahrain Motor Show in front of 30,000 fans. A new light purple color scheme debuts.
2012 - Karl tragically passes away in July and his nephew, Alan Vaughan, aged only 18 at the time, takes over as the new driver and campaigns it at various events.
2013 - The paint job is given a minor update. Alan's name replaces Karl's name as the driver and the Slingshot name font is changed from its original gray color to red.
2015 - The name is changed to bolder font along with a new drawing of the ammo ball.
2018 - Slingshot appears in an episode of Scrap Kings.
2019 - The paint is updated with a darker purple.

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With the current paint, it was Alan's first time spray painting the body.

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