Upside down club

[Grey owl]

If we can't laugh at ourselves. Became a member of the dubious upside down club. Put the motor, tranny and T case in as an assembled unit. Thought I would save time and install the cross member perches ahead of time. Got it all in and the T case looked low and engine was tilted down. Took me a while to figure out... I put perches on UPSIDE DOWN. Duh!!! Any other members of this club out there?

 

[Tricky Dick]

I'd rather be in that club than this one!

 

[Cooper]

I'd rather be in that club than this one!

Amen to that !!!

 

[SteveL]

I'd rather be in that club than this one!

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I'm a member of this one. Luckily not in the bronco

 

[Cooper]

I'm a member of this one. Luckily not in the bronco

Back in high school, one of my best friends rolled his car while exiting a hi-way. Thank God he walked away from it. As we get older, all of us know someone or at least know of someone who didn't.

 

[Grey owl]

Agreed, we all know a few that didn't make it. All that's left is memories.

 

[Broncobowsher]

I thought this was going to be about bad financial decisions

 

[gnsteam]

I thought this was going to be about bad financial decisions

I have made may of those.

 

[sanndmann3]

I tried to get in the Upside Down Club but they said I didn't meet their qualifications...

 

[Yeller]

I’m a full fledged repeat offender member, just never in a bronco, some how…. I hope to not but I’ve been pressing my luck for a very long time. Some where there’s a pic of mine wheels up and me slamming reverse, @NGABronco may have taken it.

Here’s some vintage footage of my antics that @sprdv1 posted a decade or so ago

 

[Speedrdr]

My son rolled and end-overed a truck with me as a passenger. Don’t care to EVER do that again.

 

[ntsqd]

I thought this was going to be about bad financial decisions

That's this whole forum.

I did the side-over in a swing-axle Baja bug. One of those was enough.

 

[Bruners4]

Joined when I put a '66 F-250 upside down in a ditch when I was 12.

 

[ssray]

My son rolled and end-overed a truck with me as a passenger. Don’t care to EVER do that again.

Personally saw an endo from approx 50 yds. with the same sentiment. 3 teenagers. Driver lost control and put the nose in the bottom of a deep ditch on a gravel road. I was working on a well engine and ran up the road to 2 of them screaming like crazy. The 3rd was on his back under the bed of the truck with one leg caught in the rear window by some of the plastic headliner. I pulled some of that loose and he crawled out from under with me. He was less panicked than the other 2 surprisingly. Had a bad contusion on his leg and had to have glass removed at least a couple times after the fact. Went through the back window when it went over and somehow landed on his back. His Mom showed me a picture later and practically his whole back was black and blue from the impact. I sure was relieved when I crawled under there and he told me he was Ok and just couldn’t get his leg loose.

Was actually the 2nd rollover I’ve witnessed. The first was when a neighbor teen rolled his PU at an intersection. Dad and I were coming down the road 1/4 mile away and he was out of the truck and on the road before we even got there.

I did the side-over in a swing-axle Baja bug. One of those was enough.

I rolled a 3 HP go-cart once, does that count?

 

[1969]

Speaking of upside down

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FUAUz4Fjk/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

[ssray]

Wow, that really stinks! Looks like a nice restoration. I wonder how the chassis fared? Looks like most of the body was likely affected.

 

[Tricky Dick]

I'm impressed he wasn't flattened. Note to self to at minimum get a rollbar in before driving.

 

[gnpenning]

Back in my oil field days I saw a couple rollovers. Amazingly both paddle wheel scrappers of all things. One I was first on the scene. The 2nd I watched happen from a distance. Plenty of others between myself and it.

Both times the drivers were fine other than needing some laundry done. One was basically new. Not many hours iirc.

Watched a jeep at Moab roll in my rear view mirror.