No Mo' Low

[supercharged]

I am not sure when the first pickup was lowered, like a car, but it seems that is the first thing eveyone wants to do to an old truck.

I will be honest - I ahave never been a fan of low riders, be it cars or pickups, but to each his or her own. Your ride - Your decision.

I will go one more step and state that I have never been a fan of the super jacked-up mud truck look either. But at least I can see how that stance has a practical use. Well maybe not practical but at least the truck can be driven down typical roads.

But its seems now that those are the only two acceptable stances for a truck. I am sick of hearing either: "You should slam that thing to the ground" or "You need to jack that baby up."

What happened to variety in this hobby? Even when a tread was started to addres the perfect "rake" ( http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=480424 ) most of the replies were for low riders!

Rake can be positive or negative but not neutral (level) . The only level truck that is different would be a Gasser.

Let's start a movement to have more "raked" pickups at the shows and on the street....dare to be different.

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Scottish by birth, American by law,
Texan by the grace of God.

Best. Text. Sig. Ever!

I might annex that sucker.

As for the stances, I like the factory stance. you'll get a lot of people that dont like it but some of us actually drive our trucks and dont want it looking like a 15 yr old d-bag used daddy's credit card to make something his friends might think is cool.

Or a 30 yr old trying to be 15.
And the 30" jacked up ones usually look like they should be driven in alabama swamps by the toothless and shirtless swigging moonshine. Wait till you've got one behind you shining brights in your rearview mirror.

for raked ones, high back and lower front are OK. The other one just looks like you're carrying too heavy a load or you busted some springs.

Hmm, I kinda unloaded a lot there. how about we just all put them on hoverboards and call it done?

"When everyone is a super....No one will be...." - Syndrome, The Incredibles, 2004

[cg285]

i prefer it looks like it came from the factory. whether or not it was modified it should still look like a factory installation. but i'm a minority. i like them "clean"
and "slammed" can't be made to look like that. rake is not for me but more acceptable

[LostMy65]

A thread for "Raked"
I'm in.

Pic taken around 1985


Pic taken 2/2012

[NEWFISHER]

Originally Posted by supercharged

I am not sure when the first pickup was lowered, like a car, but it seems that is the first thing eveyone wants to do to an old truck.

I will be honest - I ahave never been a fan of low riders, be it cars or pickups, but to each his or her own. Your ride - Your decision.

I will go one more step and state that I have never been a fan of the super jacked-up mud truck look either. But at least I can see how that stance has a practical use. Well maybe not practical but at least the truck can be driven down typical roads.

But its seems now that those are the only two acceptable stances for a truck. I am sick of hearing either: "You should slam that thing to the ground" or "You need to jack that baby up."

What happened to variety in this hobby? Even when a tread was started to addres the perfect "rake" ( http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=480424 ) most of the replies were for low riders!

Rake can be positive or negative but not neutral (level) . The only level truck that is different would be a Gasser.

Let's start a movement to have more "raked" pickups at the shows and on the street....dare to be different.

Trucks are like women, men love them all no matter what size or shape they are. Some guys like them fat, skinney, tall, short, blonde, brown, warm etc.

My wifes 65 is currently near stock. I will be installing an air ride system and will have the option to make it look stock, low, raked etc. kinda like I have liked my women over the years.

[Blitz]

I like both raked and dropped simultaneously, so...thumbs up!

[LostMy65]

We have many threads duscussing variety.
I think the thrust of Supercharged post is;
Although many enjoy slammed,
Let's see some trucks with actual rake.

[forestb]

Originally Posted by blitz

i like both raked and dropped simultaneously, so...thumbs up!

x2

[tjabv2]

I mean no disrespect to the owner, but the maroon truck in the first pic looks way off to me. What was done to it that makes it look odd. (my opinion)
Tim

Originally Posted by supercharged

I am not sure when the first pickup was lowered, like a car, but it seems that is the first thing eveyone wants to do to an old truck.

I will be honest - I ahave never been a fan of low riders, be it cars or pickups, but to each his or her own. Your ride - Your decision.

I will go one more step and state that I have never been a fan of the super jacked-up mud truck look either. But at least I can see how that stance has a practical use. Well maybe not practical but at least the truck can be driven down typical roads.

But its seems now that those are the only two acceptable stances for a truck. I am sick of hearing either: "You should slam that thing to the ground" or "You need to jack that baby up."

What happened to variety in this hobby? Even when a tread was started to addres the perfect "rake" ( http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=480424 ) most of the replies were for low riders!

Rake can be positive or negative but not neutral (level) . The only level truck that is different would be a Gasser.

Let's start a movement to have more "raked" pickups at the shows and on the street....dare to be different.

[forestb]

I think that the bed is shorter than a short bed. Like the back has been chopped off.

[tjabv2]

Ah, that's it. It's shorter than a normal short bed.

[pdxhall]

Your truck is your own interpretation of what you like. There are as many opinions of what this is as there are trucks. You can enjoy what you like without disrespecting someone else's tastes. I personally like to see all the different styles on the forum and I don't really care what others think of my opinion on what's best.

[63burban4x4]

petty much stock height on my suburban

[LVPhotos]

No matter how you look at it stock sucks! I have run the biggest tires that fit... stock. 31s on 74 c-10,33x10.5 2wd Blazer and Suburban. 295/50/15 and 275/60/15 mild drops on c10s. There is always someone with more money and has something lower or taller.

[supercharged]

Originally Posted by LostMy65

We have many threads duscussing variety.
I think the thrust of Supercharged post is;
Although many enjoy slammed,
Let's see some trucks with actual rake.

You are 110% correct.

All trucks are great but I'm just tired of every show and thread full of low rider trucks.

Variety is the spice of life. (air bags are not the solution to style)

Plus I don't understand the whole dropped to the asphalt rage. The truck can't be driven that way so it only looks that way while its parked. A raked truck looks good all the time. (and the jacked up trucks are just plain dangerous on the highway!)

[AcampoDave]

I understand what you're saying supercharged, but styles come and go. I personally don't get huge aluminum wheels, I think they are not at all attractive but lots of people dig 'em. And if you would have told me years ago that people would pay more money someday for a rusted weathered old truck than they would for a nicely painted one....

[K98AL]

Raked a little. Look for it in an OKLAHOMA backwoods swamp, I'll be the shirtless redneck, sans the missing teeth and moonshine.
Agree 100% with OP. It's your truck, but I don't get the slamming.
(how you gonna get over the stumps and rocks?)

[TJ's Chevy]

Never been much of a lowered truck fan either, I don't mind a few inch lowering on the front and rear to level and lower the truck a little to make smaller tires look better. I am currently running 30 inch 15's on mine, I like the stock height with bigger tires so it fills the fender gaps better. Here's a picture of mine. Bone stock with slightly taller tires and when on level ground, quite a rake! lol!

[1963c-10]

Only time mine is raked is when the bed's full of stuff being moved. Im a stock stance man. But I do like the lowered trucks and the raised trucks.....to each their own. Guess that's why we all own one and they all look different

[joedoh]

high school is such a serious time.

send me your address if you dont like my truck and I will give you a FULL refund of everything you spent on it. and if you want to put bull horns on your truck and paint one flat black and the other shiny red, doowhatchoolyke.

[slepysal]

The great thing of building an older truck is that you have the choice of doing it your way,if you do not like a trend, you don't have to follow it.
I have always said,I build things for me.If you like it good. If you don't thats ok,build your truck your way.
For some of us old timers... lowering was being diffrent.
To many ways to bulid a truck...I like mine the way it is and in the end thats all that matters right?

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Originally Posted by NEWFISHER

Trucks are like women, men love them all no matter what size or shape they are. Some guys like them fat, skinney, tall, short, blonde, brown, warm etc.

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[MikeS.]

Before spending time here I didn't particularly care for lowered trucks. But after hanging around here for a a while I've come to like them. But for me my stock height 4 x 4 is great.

[markeb01]

This subject interests me as I’ve seen it come full circle in my lifetime. As a kid reading the little hot rod books, tail draggers were popular in the late 40’s – early 50’s because it was cheap an easy. A set of long shackles could be made in shop class for next to nothing and drop the rear end until the axle hit the frame. Back in those days modified cars fell into two categories – hot rods or custom cars, and tail draggers were “customs”. Hot rods traditionally had big “pushing tires” in back and little “steering” tires up front.

As the 50’s developed custom guys could afford dropped axles or dropped spindles (or torched springs) and the whole car came down level. It wasn’t very practical however, and if a cop pulled you over everyone had to pile out before he could get a chance to measure, so the car would rise up enough to be legal.

Then the magical 60’s came along with the nose bleed gasser stance. I loved that period of automotive styling most of all. Stock height in the rear and nose jacked up was all the rage. I used up my share of coil springs spacers! And like all good things it came to an end when taken to ridiculous heights and cars fell over going around corners.

Time moved on and stock ride height seemed to come back into favor, until the current trend of slamming became popular again. At least now adjustable suspensions are available.

I never got beyond the old hot rod look, so most of my rides have had a nose down rake.









It could be argued my truck is actually higher in the front and it’s just the camera angle that makes it looked raked. But here’s a lousy shot where the ground is actually sloping downhill in the back and the truck is still nose down:



I prefer my own truck the way it is, but a lot of what I like about this forum is the variety of presentations. What I really like about the well done lowered trucks is some of the superb engineering that goes into making them work.

[Sick5]

Originally Posted by slepysal

The great thing of building an older truck is that you have the choice of doing it your way,if you do not like a trend, you don't have to follow it.
I have always said,I build things for me.If you like it good. If you don't thats ok,build your truck your way.
For some of us old timers... lowering was being diffrent.
To many ways to bulid a truck...I like mine the way it is and in the end thats all that matters right?


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