I thought the Burt Reynolds movie was "Hooper" that had him driving backwards down the expressway???.And on the "Fall Guy",the K5 in the beginning credits they show jumping suffered at least a collapsed front axle tube,if you look closely you can see it fold under the truck just before the camera turns away....lord knows what else broke!.
I have "gotten air" a few times,not on purpose though--one day while crawling down a snow covered rt.495 in MA near framingham mass I was in my 72 K5--there was a bad wreck up ahead and the road was closed off by state troopers--and I was late for work..I spied another road about 80 ft down the embankment that went under rt.495--I asked the trooper if I could go down the ravine behind the gaurdrail and try to get to the other road--he said if you want to try go ahead,but you didnt get permission from me--and if you get stuck dont blame me!.So I locked my hubs and started behind the gaurdrail,but before I cuold aim to the right to point the truck at the other road,the ass end of the K5 starts sliding sideways down the ravine,so I steered it to the right and floored it--banged 2nd gear and aimed it doen the ravine,wide open with the 4 barrel screaming,rooster tails flying 20ft high all over the place,couldnt see a damm thing because I didnt anticipate the rooster tails of snow covering the winsheild.When I got to the bottom I was going at least 30 mph,pushing a wall of snow over the windsheild,and it was there I learned that there was a gaurdrail under 3 feet of snow the plows had covered it over.Luckily it was frozen hard and my K5 leaped over it and went at least 5 feet in the air.I hit the other road about in the middle of the first lane ,my frame rails dug into the asphalt and I trashed the front bumper--later I saw my front diff cover had peeled away from the housing,but no major damage.Somehow I managed to get the truck back in line with the street,and I got out to clean off the snow and inspect the damage,by then the tropper I talked to a minite before was right in my face screaming at me for "pulling such a stupid stunt"~! I guess his superior had shown up just as I decided to make my little detour--they almost wrote me up,but they saw how nervous I was(I smoked half a pack of butts in 20 minites!)and the said get out of here,we have enough to do with the accident(one person died at the scene,they slid into a cliff at 60 mph in a blinding snow broadside)so they basically told me to "screw"and said I had enough problems with my truck to teach me not to be so daring again!. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
The other time I was "fieldbeating"an old K10 pickup at a farm in my old hometown,there was a large hill about a 1/4 mile long we used to toboggan on--we had a blast driving that old truck up to the top in 4wd(it was very steep and quite a challenge to make it all the way to the top)--we took turns driving it,when I went to go back down the hill my friends called me a pussy for crawling down so slow--so I got it up to about 35 mph,and soon the truck was off the ground more than it was on--then a brake line popped and since it had a suicide master cylinder on it--no brakes!!.I remembered the E-brake about 30 ft from the end of the hill,and the beginnimg of the forest--We hit several small trees about 4 " in diameter,the truck was suspended in midair with the bent over trees under it,about 12' off the ground--we climbed out the back window to get out--took us the rest of the day with a bucket loader and a dump truck to get it back out.
I like it on the ground--if I want to fly,I'll take a plane or wait until God gives me wings!. /forums/images/graemlins/yikes.gif /forums/images/graemlins/eek.gif
