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January has been a cold, hard month!

pbadmin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:35:16 +0000

We started off the first month of the year running all over the country for Monster Jam shows. We made our way to Des Moines in a record setting blizzard with temps around 17 below zero with wind chills in the minus 40’s. IT WAS TRULY COLD! We are grateful to all the true blue fans that sold out several shows in the Wells Fargo Arena, they were awesome. We cant wait to go back, hopefully when it is a little warmer!

We then headed down to San Antonio, TX for one of our biggest shows ever, and some warmth! The Alamodome was huge and so was the turnout for the recorded TV Monster Jam episode! Anthony had the truck tuned nice and we qualified and raced well, but the real excitement came during freestyle!

Charles was super jacked up with excitement and let it show during freestyle making big hits until a sick sky wheelie destroyed the entire back end! The hit was big, but so was the crowds response, and we were truly appreciative. They went wild after the accident! It should look great on SPEED TV!

Special thanks to Anthony and Bruce for staying up all night saturday to put the dog back in one piece for the sunday afternoon show, we made it! Our team has truly stepped up their game!

We look back at the memories ands eagerly loOk forward to the rest of the season!

THANKS TO ALL OUR OLD, AND NEW FANS!!!!! WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!

Team Pit Bull is staying with Monster Jam in 2010!

pbadmin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:56:52 +0000

We just renewed our contract with the biggest promoter in the business for the 2010 season!

Our Monster Jam schedule has us traveling all over from the heartland to the west coast!

We will be back on Speed TV this year, and we will be at the world finals in Las Vegas!

We are honored to be invited back to run with the best, and we look ahead for this partnership that began in 2005 to go on many more years!

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING ALL THE GREAT MONSTER JAM FANS OUT THERE IN 2010!

Staying involved with Hospital and planning for 2010!

pbadmin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:07:51 +0000

Pit Bull is proud of our best year ever of donations to our beloved Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital.

We donated our checks from several shows and events, and we held an entire monster truck show to raise money and awareness of these kids. We also made it down to the hospital 4 times this year to visit with these special boys and girls, and even enjoy a great luncheon with the hard working, dedicated staff.

Our plans will include even more in 2010 for the kids! We are participating in the hospital’s “Change Bandit” program, doing more show check donations, more display appearances, running our new ride truck, and yet again hosting the SANDIA SUMMER SMASH in late June. We want a new record this year!

We will work harder than ever in the new year to give as much as we can raise to these amazing kids, and raising awareness and attention to their important needs!

HELP CARRIE TINGLEY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL…. YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID!

Albuquerque Monster Jam- Home for fall…. WE LOVED IT!

pbadmin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:54:44 +0000

We were loving life as we returned to Albuquerque for the big Monster Jam at Tingley! Our new sponsor, The Big Rig Connection, painted and repaired our body better than ever! We are grateful for their awesome help! Abe, Ron, and all the guys can take care of any collision repair or paint job with awesome style!

The 2 shows went very well as we competed against world class trucks like Grave Digger and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Charles did well in some weekend’s events taking a couple of second places… There is no doubt that Charles looks up to Pablo Huffaker in his Racesource Chassis Gravedigger for good reason, they are the toughest to beat. We enjoy the privelage of running with him, and we like to watch him too! Pablo is a class act!

To be able to say you took second at anything with these trucks there is a real honor, and we cant wait to see them again! Monster Jam put on another tremendous event right here in our awesome hometown!

WE LOVE OUR BEAUTIFUL HOMETOWN, SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR!

Pit Bull Day was a success!

pbadmin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:29:00 +0000

We were honored to be a part of the day in New Mexico that is “OUR” legally proclaimed holiday PIT BULL DAY. It was a huge festival at the Los Lunas Athletic Facility & Fields! There was a huge celebration of the awesome breed with everything from the power sled pullers to champion show dogs and then Team PBR giving rides on our new truck and then pounding on a car stack + a van! This entire event was held to raise money for the Pit Bull Rescue and The County Animal Shelter where Charles lives! It is a real honor to be recognized by the commission, the thousands of wonderful fans & neighbors that came out, and all the hard working officers and volunteers that make our county facility one that saves the lives of many animals! We plan to continue to help the animal shelter next year on our very special day!

HAPPY PIT BULL DAY TO ALL OUR FANS!

Ride Truck Anyone? We now have one!

pbadmin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:43:53 +0000

Team Pit Bull has added a new truck to the team, a ride truck! It it being completed at the team headquarters in Albuquerque. It should be running this month!

Then new truck is a Ford, but it will be the twin of the race truck and rock the same graphics package!

Now our fans can get the experience of riding in a full size Pit Bull Monster Truck.

Charles plans to use the truck for helping kids more than ever with fundraising events already being planned for the Carrie Tingley Hospital, New Mexico Adoption Exchange, and the Albuquerque Public Schools! Watch team Pit Bull make an even bigger impact on our community!

WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING ALL OUR AWESOME FANS COME RIDE WITH US!

Visit to Carrie Tingley to Deliver $10,000 donation!

pbadmin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:31:27 +0000

We went to one of the best visits we have ever had to the hospital today with the proceeds from the Sandia Summer Smash, TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!

We saw many of our old friends from the hospital and some new ones as well! Team Pit Bull, with the help of some great sponsors & volunteers, was able to bring this huge donation and spend the day with the kids along with 3 awesome trucks! Our entire summer was spent to raise both money… and awareness of the needs of this amazing place! Thank you to the staff of this facility, you guys are heroic and we salute the noble, honorable work you do there!

Team Pit Bull vows to do this again next year! We love these kids and the people that help them!

We are going to “Smash it at Sandia” for Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital!

pbadmin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:01:03 +0000

This is going to be the biggest show ever in Albuquerque for Team Pit Bull! We are going to be a part of the big outdoor show in Albuquerque this summer at the Sandia Speedway, and use the opportunity to raise $10,000 for Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital!

The “Sandia Summer Smash” is going to be a great chance to run for the hometown fans, and stay true to our ways in helping the hospital. We will have all the patients & families from CTH and UNMH that can come as guests of Charles and the team! Charles loves this hospital, and running for his beloved hometown! It is the best of both worlds for him! Thanks to Speedway for accomidating his team and his kids! THIS IS GOING TO BE A SPECIAL EVENT!

Charles cant wait to get back outside to run in Albuquerque! He said “Tingley Coliseum is fine for the winter time season, but he likes the extra room to run around and really open up the motor! He also said if the goal of $10,000 is hit, you can count on seeing the truck getting run harder than ever… AND THEN SOME!”

We cant wait to see everyone at the big event in Albuquerque! Come out to the shows and help us hit our goal to help the kids!

2 DAYS - 3 BIG SHOWS!

HOME SWEET HOME!!!!

Clovis was cool!

pbadmin — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:32:21 +0000

We went down to Clovis, NM againt o run against some great trucks like Barbarian, Ghost Ryder, and Bounty Hunter. Friday was alright but we tore out an entire rear drivetrain during racing… It was too much for Josh to fix during the show so he just removed it all and we rand 2 wheeel drive. We did ok but wanted to run harder!

Saturday night was a different story with the truck running great and taking the racing final over Bounty Hunter! We blew off a tire early in freestyle but kept going for some awesome 3 tire doughnut action!

We would like to thank the entire city of Clovis for being such rabid Pit Bull fans! We are grateful for each one of you and it makes us waxnt to come back and run it even hrder next time! There a many good looking folks wearing Pit Bull gear down in Clovis! Thank you for supporting us!

We also got some great help from the awesome dudes at Trans West Towing. Their talent and equipment aTre all there! They totally helped us get it together to go take the win saturday night! THANKS GUYS!

We also want to thank Todd and Cycle City for putting on another great show and inviting us to be a part! They run a class act!

We are proud to be New Mexico’s monster truck! See you again soon Clovis!

Charles Benns - 2009 Monster Jam Humanitarian Of The Year !

pbadmin — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:41:06 +0000

3/29/2009 - Las Vegas, NV

At the 2009 Monster Jam World Finals Banquet, Charles Benns was honored as the Monster Jam “Humanitarian of the Year” for the second year in a row!

Charles has spent the last year since winning his first award working on his usual activities like cutting off his hair last April for locks of love, “an organization that helps kids who suffer hair loss”, and raising money to help orthopedically challenged kids at his beloved Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital in Albuquerque. Charles and Team Pit-Bull has helped raise around $12,000 in the last 6 months alone! They want to make a difference!

He also took on some new things like Summerbash 08′ at Kirtland Air Force Base, Valencia County Animal Rescue, and the very special Make a Wish foundation!

At Summer Bash at the Air Force Base, Charles took his monster truck down to hang out with the families and kids of soldiers serving overseas, and to thank the ones that are here! “Soldiers are my heroes” Charles.

The Valencia County Commission declared October 4th as “Pit Bull Day” in recognition of the work that had been done on behalf of educating the public about this misunderstood breed, and helping the animals. The day was used to crush cars, make friends, and raise monies for the shelter!

Charles met some really special kids from the Make a Wish foundation over the year and really wanted to do something big at his hometown show for them! Charles got a motorhome with the help of some good friends, and he took it to his hometown Monster Jam after it had been painted up real nice for Make a Wish on one side of it, and Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital on the other! He wiped it out and obliviated it in front of a sold out crowd in his home town. To him, those smiles and cheers from those kids are better than any award or anything else in the world! It was an awesome night, and a true demonstration of how Charles truly care about these kids! “His kids”!

Charles signs over all his hometown checks from his shows to the kids at Carrie Tingley, but the motorhome was his way of saying thank you to an entire town that has really embraced him as their guy! It was really and truly “for his fans”!

In the words of the World Freestyle Champion Damon Bradshaw- You don’t do any of this stuff for a plaque or anything, but it is nice that somebody cares!

Charles wanted to recognize his team and all of their personal sacrifices they have endured so he can give away the money. They have made his charity work their charity work as well! Charles fully acknowledges his team and he always says he would be nothing without them!

Charles is very humbled by this award and recognition, and it only makes him do more! HE WILL!