Ouch!! Hope everyone walked away okay from that.

 

I drove away from it, actually.

 

Duuuude!!! What happened!? That is so gnarly!! That was your truck? The one if your profile picture? Did you drive away in that? Was anyone hurt!?

 

Nice chainsaw lol

How did ya accomplish that roll, did ya swerve to avoid something on the road?

 

That's a different one than my profile picture. That one was a dark grey '87 with a 300 and a four speed. It only had 187k on it(which is a little low, because the last half of that was put on with 31's instead of the factory 235's. My black truck in my profile picture is the same year, but a 302 with an auto, and has 202k. The only injury was a cut on my foot while I was crawling around the pile of scrap metal looking for my shoe. Didn't find my hat for a week. I drove it home on three tires in four low, since my right front brake caliper was off one of its pins and had the other one wedged so the pads were driven into the rotor with a lot of pressure. It happened because I caught a bad pothole while upshifting after a turn, and it screwed up my right front, so three wheels were freewheeling, and one was locked, and I couldn't get it into gear to slow it down that way.

I spun 180 degrees during the course of the wreck, rolled in the air once, and on the ground once, and made it about 15 feet up a little hill in the process. That chainsaw had been on the seat next to me.

 

And for the record, no seatbelt.

 

Darn! You're a lucky man! And how fast were you going when you hit that pothole?

 

~35-40mph, give or take.

 

Glad you're okay!

Would have make a good Ford commercial though.

An old F-150 comes around a corner doing 45. The truck's front tire catches a pot hole, flipping the truck once in the air and once on the ground. Twenty seconds later the driver crawls out of the truck, scratches his head, jumps back in the truck and drives home on three tires. The truck is totalled.

Yeah, I'd buy one.

By the way, how did you get the truck on it's tires again?

 

I walked home and got my then-girlfriend to come down with me on the tractor. I could have rocked it back, but I didn't want to break anything when the passenger side fell six feet to the ground, so I used a chain hooked around the frame, and had her pull slow while I pushed up on the truck and we managed to lower it onto its wheels fairly slowly. She drove the tractor home, I drove the truck.

And now I know why they use fuel injection on old fighter planes... my engine never cut out until I shut it off after everything stopped moving.

 

When did this happen?

How fast were you really going? 60? heh


EFI is sweet, espcially on the 300's. Only thing is you can't really build them for performance. But, it's an I6 anyway.

 

I think I was 18, give or take.

Honestly, I wasn't going over 40.

 

How old are you now?

 

I would have planted that flag on the site after the clean-up. Glad to hear you're ok.
(Heck of a way to get your chainsaw out of the rig...)