anyone have something fall off their truck while driving?

[Lugnut64052]

About 25 years ago I bought a '72 4X4, one of my first experiments in old Chevy trucks. I think the previous owner had converted it to a 4-wheeler with spare axles and junk he had around. It was definitely a Frankenstein truck.

On the way home from the purchase, I'm cruising down the freeway going about 70 and hear a tremendous WHUMP, so I pull over to investigate. Good thing I left it running because it was the starter that had fallen off. When it departed it must've bounced off the road and hammered the bottom of the cab. I looked up to where it was supposed to be and the wires were just hanging there swinging in the breeze. Since it was still running I got home okay, but it was funny, even at the time.

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Also back then, I was driving my wife's '76 Monza one day following an old 2-ton truck which was piled half-way to the moon with scrap metal. We're going down the freeway and a big piece of pipe falls off the top of the stack. It looked to be about 3 inches in diameter and about 15 feet long. It falls off, hits on one end, bounces up in the air, I slip through UNDERNEATH IT, then see it in the rear view mirror bounce on it's other end just behind me. I think that's about as close as I've ever come to soiling the seat.

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Losing wing windows must be a pretty common occurrence. I had a '75 Chevy pickup once that was incredibly rusty. Holes I could stick my fist through in the bed sides, etc. I had a big patchwork quilt of sheet metal scraps pop riveted all over the rusted out cab floor. One day my wife and I were going to a friend's farm to cut some firewood and the right wing window suddenly departed. It was as if it had finally gotten tired of riding along all those years and wanted off. It was very cold that day, like in the teens, and man, the wind chill was wicked as soon as it fell out. Somehow I had some cardboard and duct tape kicking around in the truck so we didn't have to abort the trip.