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[Yogi05]

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I watched one of those car restoration shows recently where they were asked to restore one of those for a train museum.
Apparently there were trucks made specifically for railroads.
The one I saw looked like that but had kind of a funky cow-catcher on the front.

That said, that's quite a jag of wood on that one in the pic.

 

[goeduck]

Tenant in one of my rentals reported this morning. Someone was hauling their alcohol home in the wee hours this morning and now have a missing right headlight and damaged right quarter panel. Lens fragments were imbedded in the wood. Ft Knox mailbox made in Grants Pass, Oregon undamaged (other than scuffed paint).

 

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[Thomas]

Tenant in one of my rentals reported this morning. Someone was hauling their alcohol home in the wee hours this morning and now have a missing right headlight and damaged right quarter panel. Lens fragments were imbedded in the wood. Ft Knox mailbox made in Grants Pass, Oregon undamaged (other than scuffed paint).
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Last year impair driver took out our granite 5"x5" post mailbox lot of plastic to clean up,4 months later another impair driver took mailbox off the post,I move the mailbox back 2+ feet from the road and the next impair driver hits the mailbox will also be dealing with 3' ditch.

 

[gstrom99]

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That's where I found (lifted) the pic I posted.

 

[goeduck]

This might stop some people from hauling arse running from the cops. State law restricts high speed pursuit, so this is a good solution. Not that I agree with the law, but it sounds like it would prevent some unintended results of a high-speed chase.

MSN

 

[BigBlue1]

Better than the "cop can disable vehicle remotely" idea, for sure.

 

[goeduck]

Here is their website, they have a shoulder/hand fired launcher as well. Cool stuff.

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StarChase High Speed Pursuit Alternatives provide first responders with the ability to minimize the risk inherit in vehicle pursuits and increase the safety of officers and the communities they serve.

www.starchase.com

 

[bcp]

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Bruce

 

[Oaktree]

Last year impair driver took out our granite 5"x5" post mailbox lot of plastic to clean up,4 months later another impair driver took mailbox off the post,I move the mailbox back 2+ feet from the road and the next impair driver hits the mailbox will also be dealing with 3' ditch.

My former house was on a deceptive corner that not only was banked the wrong way, it also had a frost heave about halfway thru that wasn't obvious unless you knew it was there. I lost at least one mailbox post a year for the first 10-12 years I lived there. Was a 2' dia pine tree just past the mailbox that had many a chunk missing from it too. It seemed to be mostly teenagers/early 20s drivers.

One time a young lady in a brand new Mustang took that corner too fast and ended up backwards in a wooded section in front of the house, going over a somewhat fallen-down stone wall in the process. What undercarriage components didn't get trashed going in got it when it was winched out by the tow truck. Car couldn't have had more than a couple hundred miles on it. Expensive lesson.

After a while either all those kids moved away or else wised up about that corner as accidents dropped dramatically. Still, it wasn't a driveway you wanted to back out of.

 

[Jstpssng]

they have a shoulder/hand fired launcher as well

Boy, did I misread that!!! For a second or two I was considering a career change as a traffic cop!

 

[jjeff]

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Bruce

I guess that's one way to kill a Hilux.

 

[ning]

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Bruce

I'd bet he was pulling a trailer else he'd be towing that boat.

Also check this https://www.google.com/search?q=mitsubishi+triton+frame+broken&oq=mitsubishi+triton+frame+broken+
How to bend your ute: The truth about Mistubishi Triton chassis snapping — Auto Expert by John Cadogan - save thousands on your next new car!

Looks like a common issue in the outback with the Mitsu Triton truck.

 

[ptsg]

I guess that's one way to kill a Hilux.

I don't want to be that guy but it's a Mitsubishi L200. Just like mine but with a different front bumper. Oh and mine doesn't have that weird bend in the middle.

 

[bcp]

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Bruce

Found an article about "banana-risation" here. It also has this photo.

How to bend your ute: The truth about Mistubishi Triton chassis snapping — Auto Expert by John Cadogan - save thousands on your next new car!

The internet is full of information and, unfortunately, plenty of uninformed opinion. Let’s get to the bottom of this alleged chassis-snapping pandemic.

autoexpert.com.au

Bruce

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

My former house was on a deceptive corner that not only was banked the wrong way, it also had a frost heave about halfway thru that wasn't obvious unless you knew it was there. I lost at least one mailbox post a year for the first 10-12 years I lived there. Was a 2' dia pine tree just past the mailbox that had many a chunk missing from it too. It seemed to be mostly teenagers/early 20s drivers.

One time a young lady in a brand new Mustang took that corner too fast and ended up backwards in a wooded section in front of the house, going over a somewhat fallen-down stone wall in the process. What undercarriage components didn't get trashed going in got it when it was winched out by the tow truck. Car couldn't have had more than a couple hundred miles on it. Expensive lesson.

After a while either all those kids moved away or else wised up about that corner as accidents dropped dramatically. Still, it wasn't a driveway you wanted to back out of.

Sounds like that guy was an amateur.

 

[ning]

I don't want to be that guy but it's a Mitsubishi L200. Just like mine but with a different front bumper. Oh and mine doesn't have that weird bend in the middle.

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Put the tractor in the bed of the truck (idk maybe with the little wheels over the cab?) and then go off-roading, I'll bet you can bend it.

 

[Jstpssng]

Sounds like that guy was an amateur.

I thought the same, but don't know much about towing.

I do know that THIS was BS though... years ago my brother, cousin and I were on our way back from hunting when we came across a Dodge pickup on the side of the road, all smashed up. The odd thing though was that it looked like it had been driven there. Later that night we heard the story. They were headed out to do some hunting and left the road, flipping the truck onto it's side. Somehow, with the frame toward the woods. They called a tow truck but he said the only thing he could do was to roll it over onto it's roof, then back around onto it's wheels. At that point I think I'd have said- Well, never mind what I would have told him to go do to himself.
Anyways they let him do it, he got them back onto the road and left. They tried driving back to town but the engine overheated so badly they had to leave the truck. That's where the story ended for me, but I think that with a wrecker at my disposal and a snatch block I could have gotten it back onto it's wheels without completely destroying the pickup.

 

[jjeff]

Well back to bent boxed frames why manufacturers switched to boxed frames are they lighter, cheaper, stiffer, all of the above? Asian manufacturers have been doing manufacture recalled full frame replacements for over a decade due to rust perforations, now u.s. domestic trucks all seem to bend behind the cab? Maybe older folks know if there was magor frame problems when they were made with channel? Apologize, hijacked rants over.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

The old gusseted channel frames, were still viable when the body had rusted to the point you couldn’t keep it attached to the frame.