HOW LOW IS YOUR RIDE???
Shubee2 (DSK):
Back In The 70's most of the Cal Looks either pulled the Leafs out of the Front End Or Put A Select A Drop On, the Select a Drop You Could Crank Down To Get The Height you wanted But It road Terrible, you cut the top tube of the beam and welded the kit on what made it ride so hard was the lower you went the more preload you had on the bottom leafs. I used to cut the bottom tube rotate it 1/2 inch then weld it back, then added a select a drop. a Stock 67 Bug is 24 inches from the center of the headlight to the Ground My 67 Convert was Was 16 inches from center of the Headlight to the Ground that is also The Way the CHP always measured them I Had Lots of Tickets Back Then, I used to get them so Often, I Used to just jack up my car with a floor jack and I would Put a U shaped Muffler clamp around the front Shock so it would not close Drive Down to the CHP office get the Ticket Signed Off come home and Take the Clamps Off And I Was Good To Go!! till The next Time.. There are alot better ways to lower the cars today and maintain a good ride But When I Worked at Auto Haus We Sold The Heck Out of the Select a Drops Not Many 70's Cal Looks Were De Cambered most were stock height in the rear dropped front LETS SEE YOUR LOW RIDES!!
Rick Meredith:
Mine was lowered by pulling all the splits bars and one large bar out of each tube and it was decambered as well. Headlights sat at 16 inches to the center and back was lowered about 3 inches.
I too had a glove box full of fix it tickets from CHP and local PDs for being too low. I had a set of stock length shocks with overload coil springs that I would swap out for the short shocks and that brought the headlights back up to legal height. I used to be able to install the shocks, go down to the Tustin PD, get the ticket signed off, go back home and swap the short shocks back in about 30-40 minutes.
Here's a pic with the overloads on
Frank LUX:
Here is a Picture of mine, not that Low but enough to get it look Right!!!
Frank
Shubee2 (DSK):
Hey Rick you sure you were not a LOW RIDER?? LMAO cant quite see the dingal balls LOL front up back down!!!
Rick Meredith:
LOL...
Well, at that time, I actually lived in an unincorporated area of OC so our mailing address was Santa Ana!
And I used to work at the BAP/Geon on Main St. in Santa Ana... can't get more Hispanic than that. ;)
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