You know of course that what looks silly to you might possibly look great to
the thousands of other people. Also what makes this hobby great is that you
basicly do your truck the way you see fit and what somebody else thinks
doesn't mean SQUAT!
Don Simmons
1953(hopefully someday rodstored and LOWERED)
----- Original Message -----
From: "tim" <lloydt@colorado.edu>
To: "Ole Truckers" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] new look for '54
> On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 01:22 PM, Bill Broadway wrote:
> > But be honest, who rebuilds an old truck to abuse it? Not I.
> > Bill
>
> To throw in my two cents, I agree that lowering a truck "into the
> weeds" looks pretty silly, especially if the body's kept original (not
> chopped). Sports cars are meant to be low to the ground, and trucks
> are meant to drive over things. But it is always interesting to see
> what people do to their old trucks, even if I do have to laugh at them.
> I personally enjoy being able to drive over things in my '54, and to
> load up the bed with building supplies for my house or to help a friend
> move, as long as I remember that it's an old truck. There's one speed
> "dip" in my neighborhood that always pops the passenger door out of its
> latch whenever I take it over 20 mph.
>
> Tim Lloyd, lloyd@lasp.colorado.edu
> SNOE Mission Operations Lead Flight Controller
> Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
> "To strive, to seek, to find . . . but not to yield!"
> -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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