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*** in the Air stance , May look stupid to some mean to others

Daves69 said:
They sold a lot of t-shirts that look like that Charger picture. Reminds me of the Thundebolt and Lightfoot Fury. Any bunnys in the trunk?
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I caught that flick about 2 years ago one late night. I nearly passed out laughing at how stupid that car looked and sounded!
Still...this really tells how times have changed for how we perceive our cars and their styling. I was 14 years old in 1979 when my Dad brought home a new Camaro Z28. I wanted him to jack up the *** end and put N50-15 Kelly Super Chargers on it. He refused, saying it would ruin the way the car handled. NOW, many, many years later I am far more into cornering and handling than straight line performance.
 
bkleenfltx said:
I find it very interesting the comments. Quite a few seem a bit critical...
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BITD, most people who went for that look jacked it up a few inches with air shocks or shackles. A buddy of mine had his jacked up and even we would probably have laughed at that charger - but hey, anyone who takes a fad to an extreme like that is looking for attention, and will probably take the bad with the good.

Even now I love the nastalgia of seeing a muscle car jacked up at a show, but 'it looks good on your car, not mine'.
 
I'm not worried about handling as I'm not a race car driver nor do I drive like one. :) My car's going to be 2-3" up in the rear by the time I'm done, which is where it would have been back in the day.
 
HT413 said:
BITD, most people who went for that look jacked it up a few inches with air shocks or shackles. A buddy of mine had his jacked up and even we would probably have laughed at that charger - but hey, anyone who takes a fad to an extreme like that is looking for attention, and will probably take the bad with the good.

Even now I love the nastalgia of seeing a muscle car jacked up at a show, but 'it looks good on your car, not mine'.
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yeah kinda funny bout those "opinions". Everybodys got one. for me personally I try to respect everybodys idea of "looks good". If a question is ask about "investing" in a junker that will bankrupt you and you ask...I have an "OPINION" lol. For me I don't like four door cars. I can appreciate the work a fellow has invested for sure. Got my hinny handed to me on that one.... really don't care STILL don't like them. My Hondas are family cars...and both are 4 doors. I'm okay with that but for classics I simply don't see VALUE in a 4 door. Turkey Rod Run is coming up next week in Daytona. I bet I could ask EVERY 2 door owner "so do you think a 4 door of this is equal value" every time I've ask..."NO" is the response.

Anyway I grew up in that era, never really liked the over JACKED rear end, even back then. a rake YES...over jacked not so much. A friend had a Charger 70 I believe...she was way up like that one. However he loved it and it was good for him. I'm always critiquing mine to limit how high it should be. For me I love the rake of my car as she sits and higher ? just cant accept higher than she is and I'm quite comfortable if others don't like it.
 
why not just look like this...........

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This discussion reminds me of one day in 1989 or so that I was headed home from work in my 73 Roadrunner and a guy in a Ferrari 308 pulls up next to me at a light in Columbia, MD and revs his engine at me. I smoked him out of that light and two others, then I stopped at a store and he pulled up beside me to ask about my car. I told him it was a 440, putting out a little over 500 HP, and all the other particulars.

Then he started telling me all about how yes, I could shut him down on a straight road, but on a curvy, twisty, road, the superior handling of his 308 would enable him to kick my ***. I looked around and said "where the Hell do you see any winding, curvy, roads around here? 99% of the streets are straight as an arrow! Your car may handle curves better, but that doesn't mean anything if there are no curves to handle."

So I guess if I lived in an area where the streets are constantly curving, I would be concerned about handling and cornering, but I haven't lived anywhere like that in 40 years. :)
 
I wish I had photos but back then we did exactly the same thing in the Bay Area........jack up the *** end, lower the front and add scavenger pipes, they were straight pipes about 4 feet long coming out just under the rear axle.....couldn't corner to save your life but man did it get the chicks all moist!:love4:
 
Does anyone else remember putting a cheater bar (they were bolted onto and hung down from the rear bumper area) on the back when they jacked the *** end up to keep the cops happy? I remember as a kid helping my brother and his buddies bolt on cheater bars and I thought it was way cool back then....good memories.
 
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Back in the seventies, our used car mgr took in a 66' Fairlane with a two eighty nine, four speed. It not only had those elongated shackles, about eight teen inches, on the rear springs as I recall. But the rear axle was turned upside down, mounted to the bottom of the leaf springs, to give it more height.
 
aldal said:
Does anyone else remember putting cheater bars (they were bolted onto and hung down from the rear bumper area) on the back when they jacked the *** end up to keep the cops happy? I remember as a kid helping my brother and his buddies bolt on cheater bars and I thought it was way cool back then....good memories.
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I have no idea what this means.
 
It's so funny how trends come and go. This is no different than the 90's / early 2000's chopper craze. Bikes that were going for $40k or more can be had for $10k, which is basically the value of the parts. Now we have everyone making "cafe racers", which is only popular because it's the complete opposite of the last trend. And in the end, we all migrate right back toward stock or somewhere relatively close to stock.
 
Kern Dog said:
I have no idea what this means.
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Just a piece of steel pipe about 1 1/2" in diameter by 4 or 5 feet long and you welded brackets to the pipe and then bolted or welded the whole thing to the frame right below the rear bumper (some guys fastened it to the rear bumper....crazy). This passed as having your bumper close to stock height which was the law in Minnesota back then.

It's funny as a kid I thought everybody did it and it was so cool....guess not. :no:
 
Wow... That makes sense now. Never saw that in California, at least where I lived.
 
Yep like Benno said, not a photoshop job, owned by a guy in Japan. And the hood ornament is the Convoy/Death Proof Duck, my buddy makes them right here in oregon about 20 minutes away from me, from the same mold used for the movies

http://www.deathproofduck.com
 
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