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If you are old enought to remember this show, you now make noises when you sit down. As a ten year old, this was the coolest truck on TV, the trailer would split open from the top and there was a helicopter hidden inside.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn, I missed that show but for some reason this makes me think of a live action version of the cartoon M.A.S.K.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bought M.A.S.K. on streaming to share it with my kids. It did not live up to my memories.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not many shows or movies do. Rare exceptions for me are Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, most 80s cartoons sucked, but the toys were, and are still, outstanding. That's probably why we attach such good memories to watching the show along with our buddies Sly Rax and Hondo McLean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The shows were just 30 minute adverts for the toys. Some of my greatest playtime as a kid was when Cobra Commander teamed up with Darth Vader but was eventually defeated by G.I. Joes and R2D2.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, proper blast from the past. Had completely forgotten about the M..A.S.K toys I had when I was 3 or 4 until I read your comment, just looked them up on wiki.

Our parents could only remember their toys (unless somehow kept some), cool that we can just look it up online and see a full size image.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Link to article doesn't seem to appear, so here it is: https://silodrome.com/the-highwayman-truck/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The base of this creation is a pushback tug used in the airport. They adapted it for trailers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I recognized the tug part right off. That's a lot of custom bodywork. These days they just CG stuff like that. Back then they actually had to make props. Sometimes they did a pretty poor job, but that one is high end. I'm actually old enough to have seen that show, but I don't remember ever watching it.

[–] xylene 2 points 1 year ago

Ha! I thought that's what it was.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Many a soldier lost his lifeblood on my blade.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wow, I haven't thought about that show in decades. it was awesome

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'd probably die if I'd try to watch it now, but as a kid I loved it so much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it would be as good today as a rematch, might be better left in our memories.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

l loved this show lol That, and Airwolf!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Helicopters were the business in the 1980s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

haha yeah, and I also remember the movie Blue Thunder

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There were a lot of playground conversations about who would win in a fight, Airwolf (obviously) or Blue Thunder. I think it came down to whichever side McGyver was on.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You did not spend your emergency fund on it, right?

Right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I read the article, the plan formed in my head to restore it and drive it across the USA, to what end? I have no idea. I would also have to win the Lottery, twice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kowalski, can you hear me? Do you hear me, Kowalski? Now, I know you can hear me, Kowalski. I'm sure you hear me now. This very minute. Now, you listen very carefully. The whole mobile force of the Nevada State Highway Patrol is after you. They waitin' for you to come up for air. Yeah. Now, some people imagine you'll try to get to California through Death Valley. And others bet you'll die there in the desert. These few are just too happy to see you vanish for good out there. But my tape deck is just as jammed with telegrams as my head is jammed with phone calls from people who are wishing you well in your getaway, no matter where it might lead you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Und jetzt, will ich eins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This must be a burning man vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Never heard of it. But I love that truck. What a classic

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I remember! The driver was played by Sam Jones, who also played Flash in Flash Gordon (1980).

At first I thought it was weird that he prepped the chopper by lifting his steering wheel off and screwing a joystick in its place, but I came to love that sequence. Shit was getting real when that happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If I remember correctly he was usually pretty pissed if he had to screw that joystick in.

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