Now, if they'd spend some time on the big 4 X 4's that have headlights
engineered to shine right in your eyeballs via your rearview mirror. Bob K
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bailey" <billb1@mindspring.com>
To: "Trucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 5:33 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] How low is too low?
> I've been reading some of the comments concerning the down in the weeds
> stance that some people prefer on their old truck and I thought I would
> pass this along.
> Recently I have run into quite a bit of trouble in Virginia with the state
> police ticketing for being "too low" it has happened to my truck and to a
> truck of similar ride height that belongs to a friend of mine.
Interestingly
> enough both tickets came within a few hundred yards of on another.
> Apparently in the Commonwealth of Virginia the police have squashed crime
to
> the point where all they have to deal with now are middle aged men in the
> truck toys, hardened criminals that they be.
> I don't think my truck is all that low (you can see it on my website below
> and judge for yourself) but apparently it doesn't meet the requirements of
> some irrelevant law buried deep in the Virginia codebooks. Something to
> consider when you're building a truck..who wants to be hassled by trooper
> with nothing better to do everytime they take their truck out?
>
>
> =========================
> Bill Bailey
> Hagerstown, MD
> 1957 Chevrolet 1/2 ton
> http://members.tripod.com/~oltruck/
> billb1@mindspring.com
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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