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OK, sled, then--low cars, anyway. Why do people like them?
Originally lowered cars were a sign of stiffened suspension for spirited driving. Racing cars try and get as close to the ground as possible to maximise stiffness and minimise airflow under the car.
Extreme lowering on road cars is an evolution of that.
Example, a car that's for sale at the moment, it's lowered purely for looks rather than handling purposes.
Initially cars we're lowered for lakes and salt flat racing to make them streamlined and therefore faster, (in a brick shaped '32 with flathead power you need all the help you can get) as Nurse has said this evolved into road cars trying to emulate their race prepped counterparts.
Sled's are lowered to look good - the roofs are chopped, the lights frenched, hoods and trunks nosed and decked, sometimes bodies channeled and sectioned, all to make the cars look more 'rounded' and streamlined - lowering accentuates this. In the space obsessed '50's streamlining and low and slow was important. They we're lower at the rear than the front because back then it was easier to lower leaf-springs than re-weld spindles/chop springs to lower the front. Customising was just to make the car appear more modern, taking styling cues from the current cars and applying them to you're 2 year old ride. Just as had been done in the 40's when VW owners cut the middle out of their rear window to make it look like the latest oval rear window.
Love the plate on that golf BTW.
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^ wow! sweet...
I had a 55 Chev many many years ago, no low pro like that thou!
whats it running?
Why do people like lowrider cars (genuine question)? I think they're absolutely hideous.
It's stock running gear at the mo - the 216. Will eventually SBC it eventually though, when I've finished the welding. Only had it a couple of weeks, it came from Buffalo, NY and it's built to the usual crap american standard. I wish they had MOT's.
Oliver - it's a sled not a lowrider, there is a big difference! Sleds are traditionally built tail down (tail dragger), mines on air so I can at least get over speedbumps. Going to 4 link the rear and raise it up a bit though to make it a bit more practical. It will still lay frame though..
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Talking of low, thought you'd be keen to see my ride....
That ain't low - My '51 Chevy is low...
nice bus BTW
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this ain't low....... my fav ever bug. Richie's just run a 9.33 in the states. And it's street legal.
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On the topic of the multi-coloured cars, here's the VW Polo Harlequin:
Yes, that is the standard paintjob...
(pedant) looks like a golkf to me (pedant)
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HEMS sorted me out too - will def be donating! what they do is amazing, and i will hopefully be doing a ride for the next year.
so glad you are on the mend and hope the last hospital visit wasn't to bad and that you don't need any more (i have another one next month too. i wonder if we have the same consultants? ).
good luck to both you and your father in law : )
Mate i have hospital appointments for the next 3 years!.....! Who/where are your consultants?
Thank you to everyone who has donated - with all these 'accidents' seemingly daily on here you really don't know whne you are going to need there help....
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Processing isn't expensive you just need a dev tank, chemicals and a dark place. Literally a dark place...not somewhere you go to after listening to My Chemaical Romance.
It's the printing bit where you need a lot of equipment......it's the time I haven't got. Can't be arsed to scan them in after i've developed them..
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Not been for a while but Silverprint in Waterloo always used to be reasonable.
Now anyone know anywhere reasonable to get B&W film processed cheaply? It seems to have gone through the roof recently...
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Thanks for all the generous donations and wishes guys, sorry I haven't replied sooner, been back in hospital for a couple of days.
So the father-in-law struggled a bit yesterday up a few hills but nothing a pint and a mars bar didn't sort out. Think it was very hot even up there yesterday so should be a little easier today.
Cheers, Ad
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Just sold this
350/350, ran mid 12s 1/4's on crossplies. Gonna miss going sideways..
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As some of you know last year I got pretty badly beaten up when runover by a rubbish truck when cycling to work...... it turned left when I was happily cycling along in a cycling lane, I went under the rear wheels, ambulance came, it took me 1.5 hours to get me out, I was airlifted to the Royal London where I spent 3 months, doing OK now, loadsa physio, another op next week....to cut a long story short the London Air Ambulance saved my life.
In reconition of this my father-in-law is doing a coast to coast sponsored ride next week in aid of the LAA. I'm sure I don't have to sing the praises of the Air Ambulance but basically it is a charity, no government funding at all (it wouldn't survive at all without Branson/Virgin funding) which operates within the M25 during daylight hours and replaced by some Skoda's at night..... What a lot of people don't realise however is that the LAA will take you to the most suitable hospital - ambulances are obliged to take you to the nearest hospital. So even though my RTA was a mile from Whipps Cross Hospital I was taken to the Royal London where they have a dedicated trauma ward....
I hope it's OK to ask on here (feel free to remove if not) but honestly every bit helps and you really don't know when you'll need it, I certainly did 18 months ago, a mile from home on a journey i'd done 100's of time.
The link to justgiving
Thank you
Adam
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Thanks mate, we're getting there. On the plus side i've just bought a Fuji Track to ease me back in the saddle....cheap as chips online, with a few mods should be good. Haven't ridden it yet - need to research some comfy (ladies?) saddles.
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Sound like you're on the mend ;)
Seriously though how are you getting on?
Right now? Stiff as a board - just got back from physio and making full use of our new sofa. Got another op a week today.....other than that doing OK thanks. It's going to go on forever....
Gotta arrange drinks with Mary very soon..
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An old school friend used to have something similar 32 Ford Model B but his was a street legal rod with a 7.2 Corvette engine in black with flames down the side.That's a 34 not a 32
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Yeah, the bird in there who wears bikini tops instead of bra's offered me a vodka - gonna go back on friday with some tonic and ice.
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I went into BLB last Friday evening. Everyone was wasted. I was going to buy a bike but instead went to the pub. I'd go back but only on a friday evening.
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Yeah no probs, I work in Vauxhall can you pick it up from there? PM me in case I forget to check back on here..
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I'll go halfs on the tape with you depending on how much you need......I just want some for the lower half of my drops.
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you tried 'on your bike' at london bridge?
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DFP - done already, still no good, all the cameras are capturing the pavements and not the roads, the traffic cameras still aren't working there.
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CCTV everywhere seems to be a myth, I have the same problem. There was no 'official' CCTV of my RTA. However I was able to obtain from a local petrol station which whilst not showing the impact footage which did show the truck pass me and the speed of the 2 parties just prior to the collision. Not much but i'm hoping it could help - my case is ongoing 15 months later..
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I took my Model T to be MOT'd recently and it was too low to get on the ramp and the brake test rollers.....on the downside I put a hole through the oil pan on a speedbump last year..