HA! Reminds me of a story. Years back a friend of mine has a HIGHLY
modified Datsun pickup. It had a chopped top, targa top, suicide doors, all
that stuff. We were parked one night and some guys came up and looked over
his truck. Then started ragging on him how their truck was lower, and his
wasn't low enough. He reached in and flipped a switch letting all the air
out of his air shocks and the truck hit the ground like a ton of bricks.
Sure made an impression on those guys, lol.
Ok, back to old truck talk now ;-)
Bill
>Years back, in the late '60's, had a friend with a '66 Chevelle, 396-375
>horse 4speed. And some go fast stuff added, as if it weren't fast enough
>already! Anyways, he added a beam axle up front, re-arched springs for more
>height, much longer coils in the rear inside the regular coils. Plus
>airshocks at all 4 corners. Rode like the proverbial lumber wagon too. But
>had the old gasser look down! With skinnies on narrow Cragars in the front
>and either slicks or L-60's in the rear.
> Michigan back then had road-side safety checks. A good spot just happened
>to be near his house, (true). They would pull/wave you over at random, and
>go over from stem to stern. Give ya a little sticker if you passed. If you
>already had a sticker, you were waved thru. He didn't have a sticker, was
>waved over, and they swarmed over his car. Couldn't get him for noise, he
>had 4 mufflers on 3 inch steel pipe. E-brake worked, lights and turn signals
>worked, all up to snuff. 1 cop was bound and determined to nail him on
>something. He kept leafing thru the rules book and found "headlight height.
>passenger cars". Back then it was 53-54 inches from center of headlight to
>ground. Cop measured...it was 55 inches! He had hi,. or so he thought. The
>guy reached under front bumper. let air out to 53" level. Other cops laughed
>and hooted, older cop said to get the hell outta here. He insisted on a
>safety sticker and got one! Guy still has the car, it's in his barn, won't
>sell it, sigh.........
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