I flipped my CJ ('79 with a 4" lift) on the road in wet conditions after Hurricane Gloria. Came around the first of an "S" curve in Bristol. The road was JUST repaved and wet....a come bombing around the corner and got sideways so fast it was like I was on ice. I'm heading sideways into the curb and thinking "oh shiat" and grabbing the steering wheel tight with both hands. It went sideways, I pop outta the driver's ragtop door, land on my back and watch my Jeep go over me about a foot over my nose. The roll started sideways and went every which way, it bent both ends of my angle iron rear bumper in different directions, one side bent up and the other down. I lifted my head after it went over me and saw the windshield shoot out of the frame like ya spit a watermelon seed and smash in the street. It rolled around a telephone pole, bounced in the air and landed on in the middle of the road on all 4 tires....radio STILL playing.
The people across the street run over and ask if I was OK...told them I was fine. They tell me that I was the SECOND Jeep to flip here, the other landed on their front lawn. I looked over and sure enough, the front lawn was all torn up. I get up, walk over and turn off the radio and the ignition. Full control.....
The cops come, they too are concerned that I was OK and I repeat that I've never been better. One cop looks at me, looks at the Jeep, looks back at me and tells me that if I can get it started he won't give me a ticket....he said he wouldn't give me a ticket anyhow, I was the only one who suffered any damage. I reach in and push up the rag top, hop in, turn the key and the 258 roars to life. I drive away holding onto my rag top so it doesn't blow off and cranking my tunes.
Every side had some sort of sheet metal damage and the only thing really touched was the soft top.
