So the production house wizened up and made specialized stunt trucks, which could survive all the jumping and the action and manage to be on their wheels for the next shot, with minor alterations and touch-ups of course.Īpparently, it was a 1977 GMC pickup, built by 20th Century shop mechanics and had its engine and important mechanics shifted to mid-truck, to be able to sustain all the jumps and stunts better. In truth, the show damaged so many trucks, GMC was fast running out of vehicles to donate. In the later seasons, it was this 1982 GMC K-2500 Sierra Grande Wideside, a brute of a truck that jumped over things as a ‘Roo does, rode on two wheels, and did everything a normal car could never do, unless it was being driven by Lee Majors. Later, the truck became a 1982 model and wore a Sierra Grande trim package, now powered by a 5.7-liter V8 mated to a three-speed automatic transmission.
It also wore 35-inch Dick Cepek off-road tires that were knobbly and looked as if they could ride over just about any other car on the road, and that did happen a couple of times on the show. To make the truck look way more capable and athletic, it rode on a six-inch lift kit and also had a chromed-up rollbar bearing high-intensity lights. In the first couple of seasons of The Fall Guy, the truck you see Colt Seavers driving is a 1980 GMC 4X4 K25. RELATED: 20 Movies That Used Fake Cars (And We Didn't Even Notice) While it all looks like one indestructible monolith, in actuality, there were multiple trucks used for the shoot, and a great many of them never made it out of the “stunts”. It leaps, it flies, it jumps and does everything with such incredible finesse, you want that truck now.
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Lee Majors did pretty well for himself, moving on from the Six Million Dollar Man to The Fall Guy who was the cool stuntman by day, and since his dangerous way of making a living could not make him enough money, he moonlighted as a bounty hunter.Įach episode usually began with Majors performing a major stunt for a movie, and then repeating a similar stunt while trying to get the bad guy, often helped by Barr or Heather Thomas.įor the movie stunts Colt Seavers relies on his physical prowess, for the bit where he needs to chase the bad guys down and haul them in to get the bond money, it's his GMC trucks that do all the hard work. RELATED: Here's Where The Ford Gran Torino From Starsky & Hutch Is Today
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So here’s what we could dig up about the trucks from The Fall Guy, and where they are now, almost 35 years after the series itself ended… And considering it was off the moment it touched back on terra firma, it looked as indestructible as the protagonist himself. The series ran from 1981 to 1986, and the truck was a big part of it all because this was what Majors, as Seavers, drove whilst chasing the bad guys down, and bringing in the criminals to earn some side money for himself.Īnd boy, the truck could jump – off anything, onto anything, and look completely at home while doing it. Yet another star of the show which was far more attainable than Thomas and Majors was the GM-owned GMC truck Seavers drove, as larger than life as Lee Majors himself. The cast also comprised Douglas Barr and of course, the utterly gorgeous Heather Thomas.
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To those not very conversant with television in the ‘80s, The Fall Guy was an action and adventure TV series that starred Lee Majors as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who doubled up as a bounty hunter, along with his intrepid team of stunt performers.
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