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Big Ugly Loud Stupid Trucks
Ricci.Wright
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I have talked to two N.C. Motor Vehicle inspectors in the last two days. Both told me they have been told that these stupid jacked up, jacked down trucks these [deleted] are running around here with open exhaust are going to be cracked down upon. And it is about time. The inspectors both told me they have been visited by someone from the state telling them not to overlook this crap. Cause if they do, and the trucks are stopped for equipment violations, the last inspector to have passed the truck will be fined. I don't know how it will be determined if the truck was modified after the inspection but I am hoping they get these thing off the road soon.
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It's not only BIG TRUCKS, many mini style cars run this same way!
What’s wrong with kids these days? We never did anything like installing glass packs or shackles on the rear springs. Nothing like taking the hub caps off and painting the wheels black. No sir.
These things have the rear bumpers inches off the ground. The front end has a frame added to raise it up. They have lights that blind oncoming drivers. They run wide open exhaust.
I hate to say it but the nose high tail low look is called a "Carolina Squat"
Carolina CRAP
I knew the women were big down there but is that what happens to the trucks after you load em in the bed??? Those poor springs.
Those 22’s are rad, Esse’! My homies be like, whoa, bruh!
I have a very basic car..............and I notice lately that my rear view is often blinded by HI lights and trucks with multiple lights......it is distracting and maddening.
You could probably get one of those bro's to do your A Team Van that way. Just think when you go to the gun shows ..open up the rear doors and the guns just slide out.
to each there own sure I can not say I am pleased to be near a turbo charged over boosted diesel pick up dumping 1/2 burned black fog bank for attention but I can deal with it
..... what if they the truck owners you dis like do not like gun's and do not want any one to have a gun or only have a 22 because the rest are too loud or scary LOL .... just poking fun Ricci I can apricate your personal feelings toward them
I have had many jacked up lifted trucks built my share over the years ( my youngest son is about done with another one ) some kids will be kids its a lot better hobby then a lot of other things kids do
but then again when I was younger for many years I ran my cars with open headers most all the local police in the local towns knew me and would just shake there head , pull up next to me a red light my car shaking from the radical cam and very loud sound of a big block chevy
😁 I will add a lot of cars had air shocks shackles, trucks with lift kits 44" tires open headers or burned out glass packs that looked like a muffler LOL during that time also a loud stereo now a factory radio puts out more than the old high end car receivers
I still have two 69 Camaros one tore down to restore the I do drive has the long tin can look like mufflers on it now and I am sure some people do not like it and honestly surprised I have not got pulled over for it ( I think just a matter of time though )
I suppose they'd have a real fit if I was driving the old 84 crew cab dually with a 454 and headers. It had mufflers more or less(mostly less) and passed "inspection" every year but loud was an under statement. It had ONE purpose and that was to pull heavy trailers and it did that well.
The jacked up/down "PANSIE WAGONS" that claim to be "trucks" seen on the roads today are a waste of paint.
And get off his yard! 😁
I guess it is easier to fit into the bed of the truck?
It is a fad which will pass . Bunches of them around here ( eastern nc). In my day 70’s we ran air shocks and wide tires on the rear and skinny tires on front . Trying to look like dragsters . Add in loud mufflers and or exhaust cutouts and the old folks thought we were obnoxious. Let the kids have their fun . By the way I think it looks stupid too ! 😁
I have a car with no mufflers only chambered exhaust pipe. It is noisy but not to the point of being too loud. However if the exhaust cutouts are opened up by a switch inside well...
New diesels are so quiet you would think they were gas burners. These folks doing deletes and unapproved exhaust mods are breaking Federal laws. If you want to see how making the Feds mad or embarrassed works out just stay tuned to see what happens to folks in the next few months....
My 2000 Dodge is stock except for a Diabalo power puck, it is legal. Unfortunately the 5.9 Cummins of that year was the loudest vehicle ever sold. It rattles and roars from the fuel system and the turbo spooling up. Been listening to it for almost 600,000 miles so far. I do wish it was quieter.
Leave the kids alone, they are just venting and having fun. As long as they don't drive like morons I don't care what they do.
Thank God that fad isn't prevalent on the west side of the country yet! That's one of the dumbest things I believe I've ever seen! LOL!!
I admire the engineering and mechanical abilities of the folks that do such things, but some of it is just silly.
There's a kid around here that has a beater Toyota with a HUGE lift kit under it and what appear to be 48" tall tires. He needs a sky hook to get into it and a parachute to get out. Not something I'd ever want, but I do admire the skills it took to get it there.
I have seen a few around Raleigh. The 1st one I ever saw was when I was in Wilmington dropping off guns to you.
They have a petition now asking to "Save the Carolina Squat Trucks". These things don't all look like the one in the picture I posted but rather worn out crap with bald tires.
That must be some obscure Tenn thing cause it makes no sense at all. I'm sure if you leave the hollar and go down the mountain to the general store they will have ice cream.
Can't stand them, don't care for the loud motorcycles either.
That is a really stupid idea. Carolina Squat Truck.
We don't have 'em up here in the Carolina mountains.
Grandson bought a used pickup truck when he turned 17. First thing he did was cut off the muffler & replace it with a straight pipe. I said, "you're going to get a ticket"; he said, "nah, all the farm boys cut off their mufflers, & the sheriff doesn't bother them."
In my youth, I had a couple of Chevy SS396's. I couldn't get away with any illegal mods.
Neal
The view while sitting in the drivers seat must be meant for star gazing!
Get off my lawn!
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I guess it is the only way they can get the front up. Horsepower does it better.
Griggs, I bet they are in some of the areas near you. Most any tourist area will have them.
Asheville will have Prius and Subaru's.
You won't see a farm boys driving them, maybe all four but not just 2.
84 must have one, he is trying to change the subject.🙃
Thanks for the pictures. I have not seen any of those pickups around here, in fact this is the first I've heard of them.
"And get off his yard! "
I reckon so.
the 24" rims with low profile mudtires and the 87 black ice little tree air fresheners hanging from the rear view mirror didnt give it away maybe the fuzzy pink steering wheel cover will
That is some powerful kind of stupid.
Brad Steele
the ones that took me were the I think the call them donks
when in Detroit back a handful of years ago started going to the woodward dream cruse ( if you never heard of it or seen it and like cars trucks and just about any thing with wheels check it out )
any way the "donks " I may be wrong but mostly bigger cars have huge wheels almost there tires and jacked up all the way around not my style but to each there own I did a search seems the tires and rims have way out paced the first time I saw them LOL
I drove past a truck like that late in the evening on the side of the road, flat tire. Just one glance told me no way in HECK is he going to have a functional spare, and it's unlikely anyone in the city with a replacement tire would be open. He dug himself a nice deep hole, single point of failure, then he fell in it.
Sorry buddy, my 16" Land Rover rim ain't gonna fit your truck.