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.
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.
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 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.
The shows were just 30 minute adverts for the toys. Some of my greatest playtime as a kid was when Cobra Commander teamed up with Darth Vader but was eventually defeated by G.I. Joes and R2D2.
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
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.
Many a soldier lost his lifeblood on my blade.
Link to article doesn’t seem to appear, so here it is: https://silodrome.com/the-highwayman-truck/
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.
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.
