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Captn Airtime
Dodge Dakota
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3/11/2002
01:25:57
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 Subject: Let 'er Fly!
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Hey, I just picked me up a 2000 Dodge Dakota
4.7 4WD with the wide-stance wheel/handling
package. I'm ready to have me a bit of fun with
it!
I got one question for ya: How well do these
things fly?
I mean, lofting some big air off of, for instance,
a railroad crossing? Or the streets of san
francisco, "Bullitt" style?
My brother and I used to get about 2 feet in the
air in high school with my grandmother's old
K-car over some RR tracks, hit the bump
stops on landing and all, but she never
missed a tick, or even lost alignment....and my
buddy just last year was getting over 3 feet or
more in the air with his ZR2 S10 off of a grass
embankment at the end of the job-shop
parking lot, with no repercussions. Certainly
these Daks can handle even more fun than
this!
Let Captain Airtime hear your BIG AIR stories!
I want to know your impressions of how
controllable and stable it felt through the
maneuver, how it held up, your heights and
distances covered. Feel free to add whatever
additional details you find pertinent.
heh so I'm kidding here a little bit....sort of :)
I know some of you out there are launching
these things now and then.... :)
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scat pack
GenIII
3/11/2002
18:08:25
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Careful there captain ! Had a 70 Coronet at least 3 feet in the air racing a 280 Z. When I took the big meats off to switch to snows I found splits on inner sidewall of one tire, I'll bet that's when it happened. Good thing it didn't blow, doing about a buck. Downhill bump with a smallblock - sure did sail pretty. Saw 3 feet of air under the Z and was gaining on him on the straight, college room mate, wild times ! Not jumping my Dak but I know a nice bump in front of a local police station to get a motorcycle airborn - they're usually somewhere else.
2K RC 4.7 4x4
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SinCity R/T
Dodge Dakota
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3/11/2002
18:19:11
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Before my '01 Dak R/T, I had an '86 Toyota 4x4 that was completely decked out for Colorado mountain climbing... 4" Suspension lift, 33" off-road tires, detroit locker, 4.56 gears, nerfs, monstrous custom front/back bumpers, 6-light custom roll bar, the works... Just like all true 4x4's should look, the body was rather crappy and dinged to hell (nobody could ever notice, I kept it covered in mud whenever possible), and the bed's sheetmetal was pockmarked to hell and back.
Back when I was in the Army National Guard in Colorado, I used to go to Buckley Air Base in Denver for weekend drills - just outside the south gate of the base is (was? - over 4 yrs ago) a big stretch of land where lots of people take their dirt bikes (occasionally some trucks) and have some fun. A large ravine runs through one side of the place that was wide/steep enough to go driving down one side then up the other... I used to get my truck on the downslope of one side (approx 12-15 feet high walls) and then gun it to see how far in the sky I could slingshot when I hit the other lip. Could get a couple feet of air with ease.
My all-time favorite was a maintenance roadway that ran from this area alongside the powerlines that parallel the nearby fencing. It had a stretch that ended at a lip that would ramp up about a foot and a half, then drop a few feet down on the other side. Nothing spectacular if you're going slow, just a big bump to crawl over... But hit it at 45mph... *WHEE* (see intro to 'The Fall Guy' for imagination)
A guy in a modded Nissan said the bottom of my tires were at least six feet off the ground on my biggest jump. My truck slammed the ground so hard, the six bolts that were holding my roll bar into the bed sheared through the sheetmetal, ripped the wiring to shreds, and flung my rollbar onto the ground. I had a welder create twin sandwiched mounting plates with 16 bolts to hold the rollbar in place after that day... I used to come to this place a couple of times a month until I heard a clunking sound... The shop I took it to said it was amazing that my rear suspension was still held together, the previous owner had used crappy add-a-leaf kits which weren't set properly and also put in bad U-bolts for the lift. I'd banged the leafs out of alignment so bad that no two still pointed perpendicular to the truck. Rebuilding/Upgrading the rear suspension set me back $400, and from that day on I stuck to the big trails instead of the stunt man jumps.
I miss that truck... Once I moved to Nevada, someone decided that they wanted my truck more than I did... 3 days after it disappeared it was found completely stripped and dumped unceremoniously on the ground across town.
SinCity R/T
http://www.dakota-durango.com
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