The Cal-look Lounge

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!!

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.

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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

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Here is a Picture of mine, not that Low but enough to get it look Right!!!

Frank

Hey Rick you sure you were not a LOW RIDER?? LMAO  cant quite see the dingal balls   LOL  front up back down!!!

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. ;)

Heres a Picture If My 56 Oval I Had in the 70's notice the 356a Brakes all around that was the Hot Ticket Back Then Even Now But There Big Bucks Now. This Car Is In Frenchys Website In the Vw Trends DVB Issue  see if you can find it I Will Bet You Cant   This Car Was White Before It Was Mark Rosevear's Street Car  Its Pictured with a pair of Deanos in the rear with slicks and Chromies up front Marks Dad Ron And Uncle Lynn Rosevear were The Owner's of Auto Haus

Heres a Picture From Frenchys Website Top one is when is was marks picture taken at the old Irwindale Raceway and Bottom when I Had it Picture taken at Bug In At OCIR  check out the Turbo Bug in the Back Ground

I remember your small window, Gary. It was a nice ride. A buddy was doing a 57 about the same time and we kept looking at your car for ideas. Sadly, he totaled it before we got to far along with it.

Thanxs Jim, I like yours aswell!!! ;) ;D ;D ;D

Frank

Shubee2, that oval looks great.  Great inspiration for my Horizon Blue '57 sunroof.  I even have 3 flat-6 Fuchs that are intended for it.  Just need one more.

Heres a Few Pictures Of My Red 57 Oval

Shubee and frank your cars are what I too call RIGHT - lowered but not too low, A proper street driver stance

Also check out my Selecta drop - I just sold it  :(

P.S Shubee I LOVE your Rims  ;D ;D ;D

'Bout this high

Shubee Loves those 67's  Damm they look good with BRM's Here Is My 67 Convert and another DSK members 67  Bottom Picture is the way this same car looks today it has gone threw 4 Owners Since I owned it in the mid 70's  Owner of the car now Is Brad Thompson of Huntington Beach Ca. I Must Say He Likes Them LOW!!

Here is another DSK Project 67 Convertible DID SOME ONE SAY BRM's Well Being a Member of DSK We Took A Beat up 67 Convertible to Bug In 13 Entered in in Worst of Show The Highlight of the Car Is We Filled it With Real BRM's 21 Total We Had Chains Running threw them so nothing would disapear even had the windows up But We still got ripped off for few Spacers  it was Hitlers Birthday, the Day Bug In Was Heald, We Had Written on the hood Where else can you get a 67 Convertible and 21 Brm's all for $15,000.00 Today Only!  Back then it was a Joke today its a Deal of the Century  There were no Takers that Day Thank God LOL

In 1979, we had Mesa Sandrail on Broadway Road cut and turn the beam 3/8ths of an inch in my 2 owner '66.  Rode llike hell.  This is back in the day before dropped spindles.  We used Opel GT shocks for lowered beams.  My 67 sits as low, but rides so much better.