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Dog-faced pony soldier
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: A Rock Surrounded by a Whole lot of Water
Posts: 34,187
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My old Sierra p/u had a heavy camper shell on the back (maybe 300#) which helped, as did always keeping the humongous gas tank full, but it still sucked in snow, in the wet, etc. Was stable at 75-80 but anything above that made me uncomfortable.
I did get an older Toyota p/u up to about 120 down in FL years ago. Stupid looking back on it. At the time we just wanted to see how fast it would go with about literally 20 miles of straight, flat roads with nothing around. I guess that's about as safe as one can have for conditions, but still... one little hiccup and that thing would have probably rolled and flipped ass over teakettle about a dozen times.
I'll see if I can find the pics of the guy we saw north of Flagstaff AZ a few years ago who went bombing by us (and several other vehicles) in a p/u only to wreck/roll it at about 100 mph a few hundred yards away, scattering debris and other stuff in a patch about an eighth of a mile long. We spent the afternoon rummaging around with the highway patrol trying to help find pieces of the driver's property. Miraculously he was okay. The truck was utterly destroyed and the passenger cab was crushed. Don't know how he survived as the roof was crushed well below head level, but suffice to say those things and high speeds are not really the best of friends...
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