Photojournalist Rob Currell went out to visit Slingshot, a 5 tonne monster truck and its crew to learn more about the car crushing machine.
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00:52 - But anything a bit further out,
01:00 we'll get a sea container to come here
01:03 and it all gets loaded into a sea container
01:05 and then it goes on the big boat.
01:06 - Right, and I take it that can take a few weeks
01:08 for that to happen?
01:09 - When we did Bar Lane, it took a month for each way.
01:11 - Wow.
01:12 What was the reaction in the Middle East
01:14 to the monster trucks?
01:15 'Cause it's probably something a bit culturally different
01:16 for them, I take it.
01:17 - Well, they're not used to seeing stuff like that,
01:19 so it was a big field to them
01:20 and it was really, really, really busy.
01:23 It's the busiest show that we've probably ever done.
01:26 - I know what we're doing,
01:27 'cause next year we're taking,
01:28 we've already took bookings on
01:30 and for three months we're actually solid
01:32 at every weekend and we're starting in February
01:35 and we're going right through to November next year
01:37 and we're still taking on bookings.
01:39 And we've actually had a inquiry to go to Paris in France
01:42 and we're still waiting for that one to come back to us.
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