Hope 2018 had less bad crazy.

"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth) 12/31/2017 at 18:49 • Filed to: None

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And more good crazy.

Dusty Ventures > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 12/31/2017 at 19:00

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That suspension looks incredibly unpleasant

nermal > Dusty Ventures 12/31/2017 at 19:02

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And by that, you mean broken.

Urambo Tauro > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 12/31/2017 at 19:05

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Aww, poor Bumblebee.

Die-Trying > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 12/31/2017 at 19:07

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i love watching that old stuff. its fun to look at how they use about 3 different trucks to shoot one scene. ah, the good old days.....

Dusty Ventures > nermal 12/31/2017 at 19:23

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Broken as well, but I meant more the way it bounces the truck feet into the air upon landing. That’s an unpleasant ride. It’s also how off road suspensions worked back then. The ability for modern off road vehicles to just squat and go with minimal rebound is light years apart.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 12/31/2017 at 19:46

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Trump’s probably gonna have a Fall Guy

crowmolly > Die-Trying 12/31/2017 at 20:03

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Sometimes you can even spot the bodywork!

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Dusty Ventures 12/31/2017 at 20:13

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Indeed, note the camber adjustment on the straight axle front suspension that the landing does.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Urambo Tauro 12/31/2017 at 20:15

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Die-Trying > crowmolly 12/31/2017 at 20:22

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yeah, you got the 81 with the brush guard and winch, and then it goes to the interior truck without the rollbars, and on the the landing of the ‘78.......

i liked the later shows, that had the dedicated jump trucks with the reinforced axles and suspension bits......

nermal > Dusty Ventures 01/01/2018 at 01:14

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Yep, shocks have advanced bigly in the past 30 years.

It’s kinda unfair to compare a solid axle / leaf spring pickup truck to a moder trophy truck, however. I reckon if you launched a new, comparably bro’d F150 / F250 off of the same jump, it would still bounce pretty badly.

Dusty Ventures > nermal 01/01/2018 at 01:28

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My race Ranger has leaf springs in the rear and the factory independent in the front, just with quad bypass race shocks. I’ve never achieved the same amount of air as the truck in the gif, but for all the jumps I have done it’s just squatted and taken off.