New trend!!!
 

I'm not sure about the new trend here but it's bound to happen sooner are later. So here you go guys. You can say you saw it here first! I bet that is one scary ride at speed. Then again who knows it may ride like it's on air.

This is for all the air riding guys now you can be low and high! :metal:

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

:metal:;)

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Some how, that doesn't look like it's driven much. I doubt it's safe either.

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Stupidity is hardly a new trend. . . . .

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:haha::haha::haha:

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There's always somebody who places a turd in the punch bowl....SMH

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Well I have to say it does look nice. The idea he has is OK but not sure about how he went about getting there!:chevy:

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No doubt, look at all that chrome and painted frame. That thing is a trailer queen. MIGHT get driven 10mph in a parade.

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Anybody ever notice the taller the truck the shorter the driver ? :lol:

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I don't know how many of you guy's have seen this, but they call it the South Carolina squat here. The young guys do it to everything.:chevy:







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I'm wondering if they chromed the inside of the brake drum as they did the outside?

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I only recently heard of the "Carolina Squat". Can't recall the source, but it's said to be murder on suspension components -- lots of breakage. And how is the driver supposed to see over that elevated hood?

Diff'rent strokes I guess -- but I will say it does not appeal to me at all. I'm trying hard to not say what I actually think of it. Don't wanna offend any kids out there that like it.... ;)

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Looks like some sort of mating ritual

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Down here at the beach it's every other truck you see is like this. A lot of folks call it the invisible trailer fade. Some call it dog $#1+ squat! Main names all the same meaning!
Myself I just call it stupid.:chevy:

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

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It looks terrible, if it's squatting like that...I want to see a heavy load in it......P##sy truck is what it looks like to me! :lol:

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Yep. Squatting it is.

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Boog - that makes me laugh and is actually pretty accurate.

While I really don't care what some other mentally challenged person does with their money or their truck the idiots around here doing the "squat" have two issues that I REALLY wish the authorities would step up and ticket for.

#1 - they do not adjust their headlights and meeting one at night is murder.
#2 - they almost all have 4-6" of tire sticking out from under their fender which is supposed to be illegal. Get behind one in the rain and you won't be able to pass on the interstate for all the road spray. Personally, I wouldn't want to throw all the road debris up the side of my ride.

Definition of cool changes but I've never been one for fads. When I was a teenager convertible trucks and paint splatter paint jobs were "cool" but I didn't get it. Even at 16 my favorite truck in the area was a super clean silver over white 68 custom cab C10. Was cool in 1985 and would still be cool today. Just like jeans and a t-shirt, may not be the rage but never out of style.

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In high school (circa 1980's), the first thing a kid did when given Ma and Pa's old car was to jack up the back by adding extended leaf spring hangers and scrounge up a rear set of oversized wheels and tires. I guess it's taboo to repeat history and what else can the kids do but jack up the front to be different. Next they will be just jacking up one side. :no::no::no:

I still have a soft spot nostalgia for jacked up Nova's. Remember when this was cool (pic borrowed from the web)...

EDIT: forgot to mention air shocks to give the ride that "Rock Hard" feeling!

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Nice!!! :lol:

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Growing up my next door neighbor had a 66 mustang he jacked up like this to stuff a set of N-50's under. I came home one day and he was taking it all back apart. We got talking and apparently the state police stopped him and gave him a ticket for the rear bumper being over height. Not sure if it is still MD law but back in the mid 80's truck bumper height was like 28" but unbeknownst to us, car bumper height was limited to 19" and he was way over that.

Exception to the rule!
 

In certain cars I like the look. This is my 1964 NOVA gasser with straight axle. 383 Stroker, turns 12 sec with a Muncie 4 speed. :exit:

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Gassers are certainly an exception! Very traditional for that type of race car. As with a jacked up rear end and large tires in a drag car. My buddy had a jacked-up 6 cylinder that could hardly turn over the large tires to move let alone spin them...lol!

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For sure! The difference being a gasser has a (mostly) stock height rear and a lifted front..... Carolina squat drops the rear waaaay down and lifts the front to ridiculous heights. :)

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Well...illegal as f for road use to start with, dangerous... and just plain stupid, imho. Just because you can does not mean you should.

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Not my cup of tea ... :mm:

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Meh, the dragg'n ass look is a fad, no different than the Gasser, Jack it to the sky and make that brick even worse Aero drag. Or the high jackers in the rear.
Seems many forget the fads their generation if not them ,themselves took part in that were just as stupid. none of it was safe, or legal. The dragg'n ass truck fad isn't my thing, but I see it for what it is, it is no different than the gasser look that made an aero brick even worse, the highjacker rear that killed handling and braking, the pro street cars that died as soon at the 10.5" racers made them look stupid.
Every generation has "their" thing they think is cool beans. I find it sad when older folks compain , forgetting the silly fads they followed. There was ricers (posers) long before the import crowd.

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Have to respectfully disagree with you here ChevyRacefan. The Gassers were not built as a fad or a look. The stance had a purpose. In the late 50's - early 60's there were no wide or soft tires and the hot rodders could get more horsepower than any tire available at the time would handle. Jacking up the front (usually a straight axle) moved more of the weight distribution to the rear of the car enhancing traction. This look stayed until the wide ovals and slicks were available in the 60's. I know it works because my Gasser would still run 12 seconds on the tires off a Camray. :metal

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Wrong.
I am not talking the gasser race cars, I am talking the street cars that followed the look.
The race cars was because it was cheaper to raise it, than cut and make the tires fit the body.
The fact that we see gassers still being built, proves my point, It was a fad. a look that a generation saw as cool, and still does.
No one can claim that it makes for a better faster car.
Yet they still build them. it isn't the 60's anymore.
The gasser look is a generational fad. still seen on street cars and race cars built today. only reason is looks.
Same with the highjacker look of the 70's the prostreet look of the 80's.
Sure some cars look killer as a gasser, but it isn't because they want to go fast. They built it today because of the "look" .
The hobby is strange, put a 2 door car on a 4x4 frame and people cry WTF. jack up the rear, and put a van straight axle under the front a mile in the sky, everyone goes cool. Ladder bar rears and a solid front axle ride and handle like crap on the street. And many are only used on the street, so it is about the look. a trend, a fad. I remember the stink bug stance, they rode like a stage coach buck board in the rear, pro street any turn at over 25 mph was risking ending up in a ditch.
The dragg'n ass fad today, is same plot different movie. It makes others look at take notice. And like all the other trends before it, it handles like garbage, but turns heads.

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As I recall, Gassers typically had a mild lift up front to aid weight transfer rearward, for better traction off the line. I can't say how well it worked but a lot of drag racers did it back in the day, so draw your own conclusions. Less clear is how well it transferred to street use. Speaking of that -- I knew a kid back in the mid-sixties who owned a highly modified street-driven '55 Chevy. It had that Gasser stance, straight front axle, and a bored & built 409 with two 4-barrel carbs. Said he got 3 mpg (!) which was unacceptable even with gas at 2 bits a gallon. He swapped the twin carbs for a single and said his mileage doubled..... to 6 mpg. Ah, the good old days! :D

EDIT: I wrote this before seeing the 2 posts above.... but I'll leave it the way I wrote it.