With snow-mageddon closing in on our eastern offices, I’ve decided to dredge up some snow filled blog items from the past on this Sunday (partially because there may be no power at eastern HQ tomorrow!). So here we have my ’93 GMC stepside 4×4 completely trapped in a giant snow bank.
This was a Sunday afternoon bad idea that happened at the tail end of a boring weekend at college. We went out to some of the parking lots on campus that had large open areas and proceeded to go bombing through the snow. “We” was me and my roommate Pete, who, other than being a bad influence, was of no help mechanically or physically with, well, anything.
We blasted through larger and larger drifts until he got on my case about trying to make it over, or through, this massive snow bank. I got a huge head of steam, which was idiotic because I had no idea what was under the snow, and tried to use large amounts of wheel speed to claw through. It obviously didn’t work.
After shoveling for about an hour and trying to call anyone I knew with a four-wheel drive, I was just about to give up, leave the truck overnight, and walk a couple miles home when my buddy Dave called me back. I told him to come, and bring tow straps. He showed up in his sweet lifted ’87 Chevy stepside rolling on 35-inch mudders. It took a while to actually pull the thing free because we were pulling it through the snow as opposed to over it.
Note the killer articulation of the rear axle. The whole tire is about stuffed up inside the wheelwell. That’s with a completely stock suspension as well.
This truck lived a hard life with me, but aside from blowing up the stock motor, it never gave me a problem.
