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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | got bored at work....
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Location: Parts Unknown | Say goodbye to the new chrome on those expensively restored bumpers at the first RR crossing or
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Location: Parts Unknown | I'd love to see ANY 57 or big body 58 Chrysler with stock dog dishies like the top shot.
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Location: Parts Unknown | I cannot find the unmolested version of that top photo of the dog dish Chrysler. Can someone direct me
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Location: Eastern Iowa | At my age, I have a hard enugh time folding myself up to get in and out of a car let alone having to
get on my hands and knees as well!
Nothin' look worse IMHO, than a car/truck w/busted springs.
Bet they ride like a lumber wagon.
Dave S.
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Location: Under the X in Texas | Doctor DeSoto - 2012-10-19 4:38 AM I cannot find the unmolested version of that top photo of the dog dish Chrysler. Can someone direct me to it ? Thanks. :) That is from the '57 Chrysler full line color folder available at you local dealership... back in '57. Pic turns up with a Google search for '57 Chrysler / Images. |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Thanks Wayne. I saw that one in a recent thread, but darn if I can find it again ! My wife has really
caught the fever BAD. I thought she'd like that pic, but the slammed version would cause lots of WTF ?
questions like "Do you want to lower the Plaza like that ?" and muddy the whole point.
Figured I'd just try and find the original and avoid it all going sideways.
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Location: Parts Unknown | Mmmmm ..... that's a no-go. The one image I did find was blocked. Anyone know what thread
that photo was in here on the Forward Look site ?
TIA
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Location: Seville, OH | Here it is. Add some lake pipes to it...
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | Sorry doc I was going to post up the orriginal for you on monday, but was beaten by swept. I will do the 300f on Monday as I don't have photo shop at home. |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Thanks guys !
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | 300F CONVERT
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Location: central Illinois | I don't know. Looking at that F it reminds me of the kids walking around with their pants falling off and their shorts exposed. |
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | Hard Top
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Location: Kansas City, KS | great idea! they look so good low!
I shopped mine
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | ^^cool as, lower than a snakes belly.
heres one for VanHelsing.
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | lower..
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| Craig - when you have a moment, please lower/bag a Christine and post it here. Just curious. Thx.
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | Christine...
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Location: canandaigua, ny | this is mine for real ...seems like its a hit....
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | SWEET!! I love the shaved door handles and mirrors! Looks rat az dude. |
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Location: Upper Hunter NSW Australia | .....................................................................
My new found love for these cars is a disease I don't want a cure for !!!!
How good do these FL's look lowered 'eh !!
That wagon would have to be sitting on the bump rubbers !!
I have a personal love of rat cars, my daily driver is ratty, they are cheap to keep and just as much fun.
Thanks Craig for the photothingied pics of my black Dodge.
An inch or two drop will still give me some suspension travel it would seem and looks good.
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Location: jersey | can you try mine??
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Location: canandaigua, ny | the suspention wasnt too bad to do..an s-10 kit in the front and rear, welded some brackets on the frame for a 4 link style
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | check this..
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | sexual wagon..
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Location: Parts Unknown | I do not have the pic on my laptop from my avatar, but this is how I finished it. 2" blocks in back, torsion bars
adjusted and alignment done to match. They do look good lowered.
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Location: canandaigua, ny | I SSOOOOO want to do thet to my wagon, FOR REAL, the only thing holding me up is the cost of the windshield.. and a few saw blades |
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Location: Netherlands | Craig, put some shadowing on the wheels in the wheel-arches if you lower them. This makes them look better and more realistic. |
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| Thanks Craig! Nicely done!
The Christine looks even more menacing as a ground hugger. |
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Location: Finland | craigt - 2012-10-23 4:25 AM check this.. Bad influence... Real bad influence for my imagination. I love this wagon with bags but chopped version drives me grazy (positively) :) Maybe just a little milder chop + wide whites + spider caps would make it perfect but I could easily adopt even this version to my garage... |
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Location: Finland | wild440 - 2012-10-23 4:16 AM the suspention wasnt too bad to do..an s-10 kit in the front and rear, welded some brackets on the frame for a 4 link style rear. We like how she turned out :inlove: So you`re running with S-10 subframe on your wagon or did I missunderstood something? Any "in progress" pics available? |
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Location: northern germany | not "lowered" by me. found this in the net years ago it looks sooo good
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Location: Southern CA | Great thread Craig! Even some of the less appealing cars really look bada$$ when they're slammed. Keep up the good work...Steve |
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| i would love to see the bag mounts for the front. There doesnt seem to be enough room to fit a 2500 series bag and the lower control arms are not wide at all and pretty weak looking. |
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Location: Las Vegas, NV |
Cars with chopped tops definitely look better lowered, but other than that I don't think any unchopped FL cars look better lowered. It's not that I think they look bad lowered, I just don't think they look any better than when they are not lowered.
I thought about lowering my car, since it is already a mild custom, but I came to the conclusion that I would only be doing it to conform to what everyone else thinks a custom should be like. Since I don't think it would improve the car's looks, I figured why go to the expense, and then make the car less convenient to drive in the process?
I guess I am lucky I don't see what some of you guys see when you look at those cars lowered.
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | how about a slight roof chop...
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Location: canandaigua, ny | awsome
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | Beltrans, i had to lower your car...
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Location: canandaigua, ny | heres nine,,,,s-10 kit, home made rear suspension,
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | Subtle roof chop
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Location: Michigan | Cool! Ya know.. .when I got the car it was that low. The previous owner had chopped the springs. It road like crap so I bought new springs and put it all back to original. It's a very familiar look. |
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Location: Michigan | Do me a favor. Put one together with wide whites and the chrome spoked wheels. I want to see what it would look like. |
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Location: Tulare Ca | Now that is sharp lookin!! |
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | wide whites for your baby, beltran.
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Location: little rock, AR | craigt - 2012-10-25 8:12 PM
how about a slight roof chop...
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Location: Parts Unknown | db300 - 2012-10-23 7:58 PM
Dr Desoto: what kind, and size of tires are you running?
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Those in the pic are BFG Silvertown 7.60 x 15's w/ a 2.25 WW
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | no matter what i do i couldnt make it pretty
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Location: Perth Australia | I would do it like above but all black.
Not a pretty car, but what a rare beast
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | heres a few little gems:
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | i think i want a dual ghia, after seeing the slammed effect. |
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | 56 300 oh so sexy....
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | roof chop too.
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Location: Upper Hunter NSW Australia | .......
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Just resurrecting this thread, have been looking for it for a while so bumping it up again so I don't have to search for it for so long next time .
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Location: North Australia | Terry, you're just an Old Motorhead!
That 300 B photo's are something else. I now think the 56 300 is the ultimate 56 FL.
Correction, the ultimate Detroit iron in 1956.
Has the best of all the 1956 Chrysler Corporation attributes, both form and function.
I cant wait to see the one in captivity in Western Australia. Anyone know the owner of the West Aussie "B"?
Steve.
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Location: Houston | Few cars look good with a tone of naked air underneath them. But.....it sure is hard to drive a car without any! |
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Location: DFW, TX | I have probably a few hundred "lowering" photoshops. I'm an amateur, but I enjoy doing it anyway.
Here are a few I've done over the years.
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | I love that slammed red and white Plymourth! Marc |
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Location: Perth Australia | Steve
The 300 B your talking about is a white one?
If so, I have seen it, I think he is a member of the Charger club, I see it every so often at the shopping centre in Midland when they are meeting to go for a run or something.
I believe there is a big car run on tommorrow, might be on that one?
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Location: Oconomowoc Wi | Bagged too much. craigt - 2012-10-22 5:26 PM Christine...
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Location: Castlemaine Victoria Australia | hahahahahaha!! looks almost right...still to high. |
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