One of the stupidest mods I have ever seen done to a truck has to be putting a fender skirt on the rear fenders.

Funny thing is that I always see them on Chevy's!
I guess they are brain-dead already, so whats one more thing eh?

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1978 F250 4x4 - 351M
Don't crush them, restore them!

 

With kids today, some of the stuff i saw in high school is scary, Low riders in general look incredibly stupid, especially on trucks, nitro in a nissan... who was the friggin brainchild here, huh?!?!?!? these days everything is "slammed" with all that crappy chrome trim and those stupid rims... just seeing all those lowered trucks makes me want to add another two inches to mine, just to see the look on their faces when i crush them !! *maniacal laughter ensues*

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When the Beast realizes it only has a 4-cyl, we're gonna have probs!

 

Actually, I ask the question to myself everyday.... whats wrong with kids today? Although only being in my teens (16, nearly 17), I see some of the same crap everyday. Low riders.... Hondas(Shutter), dubs (I've been told it's the new 'slang' word for 20 inch rims). Well personally. I'll just stick with my truck I'm gonna get soon (Then by november I'll have it lifted 6", thats a susp. lift and I'll have 38" Super Swamper TSLs, although the tires may change.). As well I'll also stick with my favorite Muscle cars...
No. Not a Mustang
a '66 Pontiac GTO and a '68 CHEVY Camero.
One day I'll have my GTO........ ahhh......... Oh sorry.... well least my truck is coming sooner.

Anyway, the stupidest thing I've really just ever seen in general would have to be a '58 Ranchero that had about an 8 inch lift on it with about 41 inchers on it, now I'm just estimating but it was something along those lines. As well. If you go to the NT&W site and look at costomer rides there is a Bronco(not sure what year) frame with a like 86 Pontiac chassy thats lifted. really weird.

 

UGLY-UGLY-UGLY==people who put running lights on top of cab below front and back bumpers and along the side steps of their truck---boy is that white trash or what? looks like a xmas tree.

2001 F-150 4X4 Supercab XLT 5.4L V8
139"WB 4sp auto 3.55 rear lim slip
trailer towing group- off road group

mods:
airaid fipk
superchip(flip)
roll-n-lock tonneau

 

I have to agree with the lights, I once saw a truck(or what was a truck) with flashing lights(that looked identical to christmas tree lights), a lighted emblem(I think it was a chevy), gril guard painted metallic bunrt orange with flames running into a very dull shade of maroon, novisible brake lights(or any other makings)on the tailgate, and to make things worse, the ground clearence was low enough to scarpe a speed bump(I watched it hit) with tires sticking out 4 inches and all visible metal gold plated. I never want to see something that ugly again in my life.

Logan

 

tires that stick out 6"s from the fenders and overinflating a skinny tire to fit on wide rims is about the dumbest I have seen it makes me wonder how the tire dealer can get away with doing that ( consider the liability if someone would get killed cuz the tires because you installed to narrow of a tire on a wide rim ) then these peole wonder why they can't stop in the rain cuz they are only useing apro 1 1/2" of tread on the tire.
when I see some car with the tires sticking wat out from the fenders it makes me wonder what that person would do if I ran my 35" tire up on their tire

 

Not to mention the fact that some of them little Hondas are putting out as much as 700hp. Found that out on some site the other day.
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"There's a little red button there,kid...don't ever, ever touch the red button!"

Garett

 

You guys have those plastic mailboxes put out by newspaper companys to rural customers? Man, I honestly seen someone use one of these for some type of air scoop on a car mounted on top of his carb. He cut a hole in his hood for it to fit and everything. Did'nt paint it either. It was bright yellow and said Sothern Illinoisan (local newspaper) on the side of it. On the trunk lid he had formed a "flip tail" out of pasteboard and glass resin.
I don't understand the slammed look on a truck either. If you want a car, why not just by a car? Why tear up a perfectly good truck? Luckily that look has came and gone for the most part in my area. I hate getting near a slammed truck with my F-250. I always fear I will drive over the top of one.
Another stupid mod I've seen is running boards and curve fealers on ghetto sleds. Now that really takes the cake.



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Garett

 

Speaking of running over slammed trucks, The S-10 I hit a couple of years ago was slammed to the ground while my 78 effie is lifted 4 inches. I wish I would of just crushed that thing to make it all worth while. Along with all of the tacky gold trim and stupid wire wheels that stick out 10 inches and possibly anything anybody else mentioned, I think all of those trucks rolling around looking like a lund advertisements are just retarded. It looks like they picked up a lund catolog and ordered every piece of plastic they could fit on their truck. The worst looking things are those cowl covers that are supposed to hide your wiper but all they do is cover up half of you windshield. I will just stick with the old lund sunvisor for my 78. It makes the truck look better without over doing it. Oh yeah just remembered another stupid mod and all I have is two words, CURB FEELERS!!!

People who say it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

 

Hey! I got curb feelers on my '95 F150! They're called tires. If they can take Michigan potholes, they surely can serve as curb feelers.

 

How about hub caps that look like chrome 5 spoke rims with cross drilled brake rotors. That seems to be the new ricer fad in Ohio.

 

I know a guy that was to lazy to buy a 4" lift for his chevy and WELDED some 4" square tubing cut into blocks to his leaf spring saddles on his front axle and to the leaf springs themselves. He then welded some of the same blocks to the rear frame and mounted his rear spring shackles front and rear shackles to the blocks. I asked him if this lift kit was a result of drinking and thinking on a friday night. ( he did not answer ) but he sure is proud of his homemade lift kit

 

I have to agree on the slammed trucks thing, but there is a fine line as to a sharp looking truck and a butt ugly truck (lowered that is!)

Take for instance my 65 F-100, it's been lowered in the front, and I'm running 235/65/15's on the front, & 255/60/15's on the rear. This gives the truck more of a roadster rake to it, and not that speed bump finding, roadkill worrying, pothole swerving, lane marker bump tkaing out the oil pan problems I have seen some full sized truck have.

You can see what I'm talking about, check out the truck.

Plus there's nothing like the sweet sound of a big block with 2.5" pipes, and dual flowmasters to make your heart flutter.


Plus ricers drool when they see my engine.
1988 F-150, SWB, 5.0 EFI (formerly 4.9 EFI), M5OD 5 speed, 3.08 gears, Summit shorty truck headers, Custom built Flowmaster exhaust system. Force 4 LP6000 lightbar, Federal signal PA-300 100 watt siren, Icom IC-V100 50 watt mobile radio.
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1965 F-100 (just purchased 1/18/01), SWB, 390, C-6 auto. Dual exhaust, Not much else to do to it.

Can see both below.

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I drive a tow truck and was called to pick up a low-rider that no-one else would tow. I didn't know this at the time, or wouldn't have done the job. I picked up this rice-burner, and when I crossed the railroad tracks, all hell broke loose. Wood was flying everywhere, coming out from underneath the car. The kid that owned the car started screaming about his paint job, and I pulled over. There was no damage, and then the kid informed me that the wood was his SUSPENSION. He had cut his springs out and stuffed 2x4s in the space to get the low-rider look and feel. To top it off, he was towing it for it's SAFETY INSPECTION. Needless to say, he didn't pass.

 

....Drive a Ford and give your thumb a rest.
I'll have to agree with the lowered truck stupidity. Once at school (years ago when a freshman) saw a "cool" senior driving his pos c?.,; road grader thru the school lot. Well oneday, school came thru and built up all the speed bumps trying to (slow down) all the "raised rigs". Well you can guess what happened to mr.cool road grader........ took a beauty of a 89 F350 to drag him off, much to the delight of a hundred people.