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On errands today, helping daughter and son in law, plus a turn signal flasher install for someone at the Church.
Heading back, LONG steep downgrade in the old pickup, traffic stopping, doing 20 MPH....and the truck decided to come around.
Seemingly dryish pavement.....all the way around, over the curbing, bounced off a fire hydrant...and slowly rolled on it's side.
Twenty folks stopped to help.
Climbed out the passenger side.

Six guys rolled it on it's feet.
LR tyre off the rim.

Aid car, fire truck, cops...they kept looking for the victim of the rollover.

All done, daughter lives 4 blocks away, my floor jack and crossbar is there to swap winter tyres out....cop says he's called a wrecker....I asked why.
He says, what do you mean?
I said, the guys at the gun range (where we re) said I could park it on their grass.
He says, will it run?

Key on, neutral, push the button, starts right up, drive on the rim 40 feet and park it...and he cancels the tow!

Jacked it up, installed the spare, and drove it home.......
 
Glad you're ok!

What caused the loss of control?
 
Unknown. Cops could see nothing wrong, drove it home fine (bit missing).
Have to check that #3 plug...battery was laying on it when the strap broke.
Possibly tyre went. Going to head down to have it checked now.

Had a spare mirror...installed.
Had a spare outside door handle (smashed flat), installed.
Cleaned the oil off the wing and running board (oil bath air cleaner emptied itself).
These are LIGHT in the back when unloaded.....and I'd unloaded it about 50 minutes prior.
 
That stuff happens in an eyeblink. Glad you're not seriously hurt!
 
Glad you're OK!

When we were kids (approx. age = 13 to 16) we had "woods cars" and we'd roll them all the time. Never told our parents, of course (they though we were just driving around in the woods like proper little gentlemen...Hahahaha)

When I was 17, I rolled a VW bug in the Trenton State College parking lot. Completely over and back on its wheels. Drove it home but it was like a wounded crab and never the same.
 
My wife left my work pick-up out of gear when she drove it once, and it rolled itself down a hill across a road and over a telephone pole. By the time I got to town it was at a salvage yard. The guy offered me $100 because it would never drive again. I went over to it wrapped a chain around the core support and pulled the radiator out of the fan and drove it the twenty five miles home. That was nine years ago and its still running strong.
 
Friend when I was in college low speed rolled a TR4a. Somehow managed to not get hurt in the deal and even drove it home. But had to hold the steering wheel by the bottom edge since the windshield frame was bent down over the dash.
 
Beat the rear wing out yesterday. Tyre fixed and installed.
A bit more metal dressing before a thin layer of spot filler.
These are LIGHT in the arse end anyway. Near as we can figure, long, steep grade, when I started loading up the brakes, the truck nosed a bit more over the front wheels than normal causing the arse to fully unload and come around.
I'll keep after the rear wing until done before I address the front wing.
 
Dave- Keep the thing rubber side down, Dude!
 
Has that got a load sensing valve on the rear brakes? I wonder if it's rusted in one position. My first thought when you described this was that the brakes are not working evenly. My Type 3s brakes are out of whack, and it does weird things like that too. New parts will be installed before the driving season begins for that car.
 
Trust me. In 1950, they hadn't even thought about load sensing valving to the rear brakes.
 
When we had our '79 Buick Century station wagon, it had a propensity for bringing it's tail end around. It could be a lot of fun in a snow covered parking lot. CG was low enough that rolling it wasn't a possibility unless you were doing something really wrong.
 
It decided to divert.....towards the curbing. Impacted a fire hydrant (thought I'd folded the nose under at 10MPH), rotated around the hydrant, LR wheel hit the curb at about 5 MPH, and it was a slow motion tip over.
I have driven this truck every winter, snow, ice, chains as needed...never, ever had it do this...and on dry pavement, no less.
 
TOC said:
Trust me. In 1950, they hadn't even thought about load sensing valving to the rear brakes.
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You are correct. I knew from your post it was an older truck, I did not realize it was of that vintage.
Very strange that way this happened. Just glad you're ok, and the truck is not totaled.
 
Oh sure the truck just "decided" to come around...BS, I'm not buying it. You were texting, probably updating your twitter feed.
@TOC-NADO posted: Weeeeeee flying down hill like a ski jumper #nobrakes. :jester:
 
Yeah...right.
When the aid car guys said I could call my daughter, I had to figure out how to turn the old Motorola phone on...

Maybe I need to go back and try it again, see if I get the same results?
 
Officer: "Sir.. Why are you wearing a helmet?.."
 
:lol: It felt better the a seat belt...? Very glad your safe.
 
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