2y ago

eBay Find: A 1980s Dystopian Sci-Fi Truck From "The Highwayman"

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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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.
- I bought M.A.S.K. on streaming to share it with my kids. It did not live up to my memories.
  
  Not many shows or movies do. Rare exceptions for me are Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
  
  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.
- 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.
Link to article doesn't seem to appear, so here it is: https://silodrome.com/the-highwayman-truck/
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.
- Many a soldier lost his lifeblood on my blade.
The base of this creation is a pushback tug used in the airport. They adapted it for trailers.
- 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.
- Ha! I thought that's what it was.
wow, I haven't thought about that show in decades. it was awesome
- I'd probably die if I'd try to watch it now, but as a kid I loved it so much.
- I wonder if it would be as good today as a rematch, might be better left in our memories.
l loved this show lol That, and Airwolf!
- Helicopters were the business in the 1980s.
  
  haha yeah, and I also remember the movie Blue Thunder
You did not spend your emergency fund on it, right?
Right?
- 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.
  
  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
@nslatz reminds me for Steinwinter
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinwinter#/media/Datei%3A18meterlangmobielziekenhuis(carrosseriebouwerECKinLexmond)%2CBestanddeelnr932-8514.jpg
- Und jetzt, will ich eins.
This must be a burning man vehicle.
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.
- If I remember correctly he was usually pretty pissed if he had to screw that joystick in.

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