Ok, I am expecting a lot of flak here but I am an older guy who says I am tired of every car show talking about what older cars and trucks need is to be chopped to the ground with close to zero ground clearance as being “cool”. I admit that there are a few cars and trucks that look good low. We used to use fender skirts to accomplish the same look but whoa! Not everything needs to be lowered But yet every single show says that’s what they need??Some vehicles need a full stancev to look cool. Many forward look cars in my opinion need a higher stance and in fact look stupid sitting on the ground. Where is the variety ? Where is the open mindedness? Our forward look cars have class sitting high in many cases. Open your mind. I can agree on some low riders but the world is not all low and i Don’t believe the designers ever meant to have their designs sitting on the ground. Nor do I.

Gas Monkey garage was the worst offender for the low & slow school of suspension. They seemed not to know how to build any car except for one that was shooting sparks off the pavement as it was crawling down the road. Ye Gods, no car needs to be that low. Forward Look cars are low enough at factory heght, in my opinion. Maybe crank down the torsion bars a little if you must, but don't slam it down to the ground, please.

Lowered cars are hit and miss for me. Personally, I don't really think FL's look all that great lowered, but on the 1959 GM flattop 4 doors are designs that are just begging to be slammed. The flat roof and flat fins just look awesome to me when they ride low to the ground. Eventually I want to get me a 59 Buick and make it look pretty similar to this one. That's definitely about 10 years off though, gotta give myself time to finish the Desoto. 

I agree that the 1959 GM offerings do respond well to a little lowering. This is not bad at all - and a 4-door too.

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57burb - 2019-06-23 5:31 PM The reason the '59-60 GM cars have such an appeal to "us" is because they were such a blatant styling ripoff of the 1957 Mopars. It is widely known that sometime in '55-56, GM execs started seeing what Chrysler was going to offer for '57, and they panicked. They immediately dropped the notion that the bloated 1958 GM styling would last the intended three years, and developed an all new design for the 1959-60s. Long, low, dramatic, with lots of glass.... hmmmm where have we seen that before? Love that '59 flat top Buick (all '59s Buicks, actually!) but in my personal, highly biased opinion, the FL cars look terrific lowered.

I think all the American companies were ripping off Mopar at the end of the 50's, and for good reason! It's a good thing too, without the FL's we never would have gotten the awesome 59 and 60 GM offerings. Ford was late to the show though and in 59 their cars kinda resembled a brick with tiny fins and trim on them (except Lincoln which was a really exceptional design 58-60). It's kinda sad they didn't start to modernize their look till 60, because the 60 Ford and Edsel were incredibly looking cars (that also look really good lowered). Who knows, Edsel might have still been around today if they went with what was supposed to be the 60 Edsel back in 58. The 60 prototype even managed to nail the look of the vertical grille and make it look good.

I know right? The one pictured is a one off replica of the 60 Edsel protoype that someone made. Not that the actual 60 Edsel wasn't already beautiful from the factory,  but the concept definitely goes to show that the vertical grille could've been great and not looked like a you know what. 

You have a 59 Buick flattop? Nice! Any pics of it? 

They should have used one of the model names for the marque. "Corsair" or "Citation" sound great as a brand names.