Circa 1998, I was exploring a new ranch property (3,000 acres) Dad purchased in a white 1990 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins Diesel 5 speed. I pulled in the four-wheel drive (low range) to drive a few yards up to a "dirt road" that had been carved into the side of a hill (hadn't been driven on in years). As soon as I straightened out on this "dirt road", driving maybe one, two, or three miles per hour, the right front of the truck began to dip. Because I thought I had been driving so cautiously and so slowly, I did not brake, but kept moving ahead at a crawl. In slow motion, the dip increased until the entire vehicle rolled 360 degrees and landed on its tires again. Hurt my left elbow in the process.
Past rainfall had put a ditch across this path as the water flowed down the hill from left to right, uphill to downhill. Afterward, weeds had grown up in the ditch, which made it invisible to someone driving in that direction for the first time.
The windshield was cracked, the passenger mirror broke off, the roof was caved in, the box was damaged. Well, it was a wreck, but still drivable. We had it towed to the best body shop in town, which gave us an estimate of about $7,000.00. Not worth fixing there.
I removed the cab and purchased a used cab for about $350.00 from a wrecking yard. Changed everything out myself and "restored" the wreck for pennies on the dollar that way.
Removed the box, and my brother-in-law (welder) converted it to a flat bed. A local body shop repainted the truck, good as new. (photo not our truck, but similar in appearance)
....a short while!
