how about when I helped rescute my moms jeep in my old C20 pickup? my lil sister and mom were out offroading near the salton sea, and found a saltbog... sunk it up to the hubs, and I followed my cousin out ( he in his massive jeep) and became an anchor point while he winched her out.... ( his jeep was too light, and started sliding towards the bog)
dragging my parts truck out to my friends palce in Maricopa was quite interesting too... the tow bar I was using to drag it broke TWICE en route.. the first time, a bolt fell out, and my parts truck tried to pass me ( one arm of the towbar was still connected...) the second time, one of the bolts sheared, and I got rearended by it. fortunately, we were close enough to johns place, that I just unhooked it from the other truck, and we rolled it the rest of the way. ( that gave my friend elizabeth a truly rare privelage: she's 1 of 3 people who's ever been allowed to drive Burbanzilla)
the final story for now, was 3 months after I did my engine swap, and dropped the mildly built 454 into my C20 suburban. my brother, his friend Mike, and myself were on the way home from harrahs akh chin casino, on Maricopa road. when we came to Riggs road, the light turned red... and I of course stopped. glancing in my rearview, I see a brand new Dodge dakota stop about 200 feet behind me in the other lane. realizing what was about to happen, I casually mention to my brother, and mike `hey, check out that baby truck who's going to try to race me'. sure enough, the cross traffic direction turns Yellow, and the Dakota pegs his accelerator to get a head start on me at the light. the light turns green for me, and I peg it to the floor, the 467 cubic inches of torquey cammed bigblock coming to life like hell on wheels. the rear wheels hooked up perfectly (no spin) and launched me forward myself, and my passengers into the backs of our seats, and my truck into an even more perfect victory: the dodge never got past my rear bumper, and gave up shortly after... after hitting about 70 ( 8 seconds later) I let off the gas, and let her coast down to a reasonable speed.... about a minute later, the dodge flew past like he had a small penis, and we all had a good long laugh.
-Rich
