LOL!! Great story guy! The only thing you were missing in you caravan was the '20 mule team'! The Chevy's must have had a bad hair day. Every once in a while a Chevy dude will get up to his ear lobes. The only thing that can save the day at that point is a military HEMTT wrecker. HEMTT recovery crews get the greatest pictures!!  

Funny tale! What ever made you think to go down a steep trail in a 2wd S-10 ? I've got one, and my kid has an '02 Sonoma - same thing. I've had to call him several times to drive me home to my Beast so I can yank my S-10 out of a little rut or 'bunny mud hole' somewhere. Famous last words: my S-10 can handle this silly sh*t!  -  I have to keep reminding myself that my wimpy S-10 cannot handle anything even close to what my '77 K5 can!

That's why God invented Big Bears, and little white fluffy rabbits - so the Big Bears can wipe their as* with them.

Nice!! Too bad the neighbor didn't mention this fact before you drove into the quicksand!  

I've been rackin my brain dude, but I just can't come up with a stuck tale of my own !!  Most K5 folks probably can't come up with too many either I would suspect. There's always the off novice who hauls off into a muddy rut where the '44's or bigger have been playin all day, and his 35's just can't cut it in there . I've tried some wild unkowns in my K5's over the years, and I've got plenty of bumps on the head and other places to prove it, but the only place I had to get towed out of was with over an argument with a  submerged tree stump in a muddy creek. That stump stopped me cold. Put a big ding in the crossmember just below the front sway bar. It cracked the frame right behing the steering box - a common failing to this model when driven hard off-road, and bent the frame slightly right at the firewall on both sides. This Beast's off-road days were over, so I put 'er out to pasture and I'm fixin it up as a show truck. My other K5 is still working hard as ever.

How about coming up to Maryland and you can buy my Ford Ranger and then you can have all the stucks that you want, HaHa.  Just out of curiosity what does your drive train consist of in your K-5?Also what do you think is the best year K-5 to buy.  

I don't need beer to be brave or stupid dude! It comes natural to me. I'm stupider than I look. 

I've scared the crap out of a lot of folks during my travels. More times off-shore than on dry land. Possibly the worst was when I took my buddies fishing in my 25-foot offshore boat in 10-foot seas one winter! We were getting these huge rollers about 60 feet apart. The wind wasn't too bad, so I was not very worried. Everyone was turning green though, and I was getting douched up on the flying bridge. I was forced to come down and steer from the lower station. When I came down and looked over at my buds. they all had a look on their faces like death was imminent. My feet were coming off the floor on the troughs. I had to hold myself down with my hands on the roof of the lower station. We tried this for about an hour before we gave up fishing that day. I went home and went out to breakfast. Everyone else was still to green to eat anything. I had a few other trips like that - mostly in the winter. Winds out of the South-east 25-30 knots and a good north current. It's an adrenaline thing like riding a gnarly roller coaster, but one you may not come back from. If your attention slips for a minute and you take a wave broadside - all it takes is one in those conditions, and you can be in a world 'o hurt. My fishing partner from Texas was of the same mind as me, and just about as crazy as I was, so we made a good team.

He didn't trust me in a 4X4 when I 'would get that look in my eye' as he would put it. On the ocean he trusted me completely though.

Sorry to go off-subject there. Didn't mean to high-jack this thread.

Hey Ranger stop drinking the beer.  Man join an AA meeting if you have to. If drinking, and driving doesn't kill you some day, your liver will give out. You are sending a bad message to the younger readers of this thread. We are not alone on this site. Get help man. You are just killing yourself, and possibly others.  

I wouldn't broadcast you beverage habits too much if I were you. Some people  are way paranoid about any drinking and driving. (ie. even a single beer 20 min. before) I myself prefer a more moderate approach to life, but it's something to keep in mind in case someone recognizes your screenname.

Thanks for the offer buy if wanted to rack up some stucks tales I'd take my 2wd S-10 in da mud before I would consider takin a ferd!  No offense dude.

I don't have the money for the mods I would love to do. My muddin and off-road K5 has a Dana-44 up front, a GM 12-bolt in tha back and an NP-205 in da middle. I'm running 4.11 gears, but I'm working on 4.56 and a Detroit locker for the back. I've got a 4-inch spring lift and a 1-inch Polyuretane boby lift - The only reason I did the body lift was because the stock bushings were way past being shot. I'm not a big proponent of body lifts. they don't do much in my opinion.

My favorite range ok K5 are '75 through 80. I know the factory production run from Chevrolet for this model type is 73-91.

Mine are '76 and '77.  The wife rolled my other '77 and I and to junk it.

I spent some time in Silver Spring and Baltimore. Not too bad up there in the springtime.

Sorry about the recent posts, but I went back and edited all of the previus posts. Thanks for your concern on this matter. I would never encourage a young-buck to do this. Will you forgive me?

Thanks for your input on this matter. I'll keep the fun times at home for now on.  

No offense taken on the Ford thing, You know how I feel about the blue oval. Thanks for your advice on the K-5. Do you have family in Silver Spring & Balto? I go camping in Green Ridge State Forest in the spring and fall every year. If it werent for the job situation in Western Md. I'd move up there in a heart beat. This is one of my favorite places in Md. other than being near the Chesapeake Bay.  

Sound's like a worst stuck to me. No offense to you, but to me driving in water such as a creek, pond or river should only be done by boat. Like the old saying goes, Chevy, like a rock. I hope a Chevy pulled you out of this stuck instead of a pos Ford or Mopar or much worse a rice burner.  

Of course I'd forgive you. I have three  kids. One who will be driving soon who is easily influanced.  It is a scary world out there, and hard to protect them from all the bad in it.  What you say, and do can affect thing you never knew it could.  

Most of the time I could not care less what people think of me, but when you posted what you thought about what I wrote I thought about it for a minute or two and realized that you were right about this matter. That's why I went back and changed my previus posts. I myself have never been married or have had any children and can understand the concern that you have since you have children. Young kids these days are so prone to doing what everybody else is doing just to fit in. Just look at all the garbage that they can get into on the computer. Again, I apologize for my stupidity.