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3Hummers

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I know a few people that have managed it but never actually saw it while it happened. Eric rolled one at Moab and I have seen the video but was not there.
 

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has anyone here ever seen an H1 flip?

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I was in this H1 when it rolled. Driver got a laceration to the back of the head, otherwise just some sore muscles for the injuries. truck was towed out for safety but could have been driven if the rear tires were aired back up. The beads got unseated from the rollover.

Truck was totalled. at the time, Mike S. found the firewall had a large crack in it. To replace the firewall required new body tub. IIRC, a few years later it was discovered that the firewall could be replaced without replacing the body tub. If firewall could have been replaced without replacing the body, my dad would have kept the truck and turned it into a trail truck. Make it an open top, I think he was going to cut the doors into half doors because the tops of the doors were damaged.
 

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How did they roll it?

First time on the mojave trail. We were running behind schedule. First time my mom was driving an H1. My dad pushed my mom to make up some time by going faster. Hit a long straightaway, going about 60MPH. Long sweeping turn to the right was fine, short straightaway and then much tighter left hand turn. Took turn too fast, truck was understeering and headed towards going over a dirt berm a few feet high with cacti passed that. Mo mom turned tighter to avoid the berm and stay on the road. The rear end started sliding out, my mom slowly got off the accelerator and didn't hit the brakes. Unfortunately my mom had Cadillac Escalade at the time and reacts totally different. The independent suspension and no rear sway bar on an H1 didn't help with the oversteer from overcorrecting. Truck fish tailed at least 3 or 4 times. Truck ended up sideways on the road and the rear tires slid into the drainage ditch you can see the rear tires are sitting in in the pic. Rear tire gripped all of a sudden, sending the truck rolling sideways. Truck rolled at least twice. The rolling ended with the front tires on the ground and the rear tires several feet off the ground, when the rear tires fell back down it was with enough force to blow the beads on the rear tires.
Truck started right up and everything worked after the roll.
 
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