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.
Link to article doesn’t seem to appear, so here it is: https://silodrome.com/the-highwayman-truck/
The base of this creation is a pushback tug used in the airport. They adapted it for trailers.
Ha! I thought that’s what it was.
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.
wow, I haven’t thought about that show in decades. it was awesome
I wonder if it would be as good today as a rematch, might be better left in our memories.
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.
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.
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.
