1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

That movie was a trip. I had a period of time where I was constantly seeing 1234 all over the place and it always made me think of this movie lol

 

https://people.com/influencer-couple-dies-tragic-off-roading-accident-british-columbia-11789221

yeah seems like thats what happened, rollover on a switchback after the "difficult" part of the trail still unknown about the cause.

I absolutely loved the Chinook build, low-key surprised @Speedytech7 isn't building one of those for his camper conversion.

 

Considered it, they're really hard to make not crazy heavy, it would destroy a tacoma frame in pretty short order if you leave pavement regularly.

 

Fuck… Really makes me want a half cage…

 

Their cab detatched from the frame, not sure a cage would have helped TBH

 

Do you know what trail it was?

 

Rady Creek

 

Wholly shit…

 

Man that sucks. The article sort of reads like they were found outside of the wreckage, at least he was. I wonder if they were thrown from the vehicle.

 

It sounds like he was and she wasn't

 

I haven't looked into it, I figure the main problem is the Taco chassis is very flexy, as is the fiberglass... and both need to not be flexy to survive long.

I hadn't seen that... typically a Cage is connected to the Frame and cab, so it may have helped.

getting tossed means no seatbelt tho

 

I read it as the opposite

 

Yeah that's kind of what I got from it too, or maybe he was able to get out and started wandering off to find help.

 

Same

She made it to the hospital, and in the article was said to be found away from the crash site

 

A wreck of that magnitude I can't imagine you're much better off either way, but I'll always advocate for staying buckled in....beats getting tossed and potentially being crushed or thrown into a tree/boulder or any number of deadly variables

 

Picture of part of that trail courtesy of adventuretaco
Pretty damn steep

https://adventuretaco.com/this-trail-may-be-closed-forever-rady-3/
(absolutely no knowledge on what part of the trail it happened)

 

it definitely has me thinking that rather than "may" add a cage to my build. I "will"

but I also need to get my act together, I've been spending so much of my free time working on this frame I've been letting various odds and ends go unmaintained on my truck lately

 

So this is why I get strange looks

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNKc6i-uQRq/