[66-PMD-GMC]

Originally Posted by stevencvn72

I love threads that start with a disclaimer. I would hardly think that over 50 years of lowered cars running around should be called a fad. As stated above, there's a difference between a hack job and a well engineered lowered ride. And personally, I've seen more hack job 4WD trucks that scare me than low-riders. Other things on cars that scare me: Bald tires, no brakes, bumpers falling off, no visability out the back window, Studebakers.... Lets not try and pigeon hole the lowered crowd here.

I never said anything about cars and I wasn't referring to all low-riders being a fad.
I owned a 65 Impala 2 door low-rider with cragars and 560's in 1976 as a high school ride. I know about low-riders.
As a matter of fact, I was referring to 60-66 GMC/Chevrolet trucks.
I also said, in not so many words that it was a matter of taste and to each his own. While it isn't my preference, what is being built today as a rule doesn't look safe, doesn't look like it would handle well at all and the functionality as a ride.... looks questionable.
Look at "monster" trucks. Big Foot made a splash and then everyone and their brother had to have 18X44 monster mudders on their 4X4's. This escalated into the so called "monster trucks" of today that are noting more than a tube frame roll cage with a fiberglass sort of truck body wrapped around it.
My point of the truck slam-a-thon that goes on in the 60-66 threads is that 8 out of 10 threads started are about trucks dragging frame and if it is a fad, what made it happen and why C notch?
C-notching will be replaced by something else like Z notching and channeling as it only makes structural sense and seems the logical next step if this fad goes on.
As far as a bolt on C notch.... seriously... that is nothing I would risk my life on.