My stock ride height Corvette has about 3 - 4 inches ground clearance under the
front
spoiler, front cross member, under body X-brace and exhaust; low enough that I
have
problems with many/most speed bumps.
I did my engineering school co-oping at NASA/Langley (SE VA) in the mid 70s.
One of the
reasons that I did not pursue NASA/Langley after school was that their
automotive laws
(modified cars/trucks were my main hobby then too) were painfully restrictive
and
basically designed to prevent/punish modifications from stock. I got harrassed
the
whole time I was there, and NASA intentionally counseled me as to how to walk
the fine
line between resident and non resident so that I didn't have to comply with VA
regs.
At that time though, I was under the impression that the law was not uniform
across the
state.
TN might have laws like that but there's plenty of lowered and modified
vehicles running
around here; you just need to move to a good state!
Mark Noakes
Knoxville,TN
On Wed, 07 May 2003 22:30:57 -0500, Bill Broadway wrote:
>
> Plain ridiculous .. your truck is nicely lowered, but not slammed or in the
> weeds. I bet if you took a car like a corvette or viper you'd have similar
> ground clearance. So why not ticket those as well?
>
> At least with air ride when you're getting pulled over you could raise it
> back up and tell the cop it must have been a figment of his imagination ;-)
>
> Bill
>
> At 08:33 PM 5/7/2003 -0400, Bill Bailey wrote:
> >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?
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