my GMC - Leave it, or Lift it?
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I woulda slammed the biotch on double dueces, fo real. <img border="0" alt="[pimp]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_pimp.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
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You could always go Barnes & Noble style, and put it on airbags <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> But then you'll need strobes too... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
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Just leave it
less hassle, less noisy (excessive tire noise), crappy gas mileage, goodbye warranty(suspension), crap could start to go wrong after a while..(bad leaf spring, etc...)
just concentrate on the bird <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
less hassle, less noisy (excessive tire noise), crappy gas mileage, goodbye warranty(suspension), crap could start to go wrong after a while..(bad leaf spring, etc...)
just concentrate on the bird <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
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BadBlackZ, don't worry about Jon (jmX). He lives in Austin, the "San Francisco of the South". He's probably used to "quirky" type boys and their rainbow toys LOL.
Don't worry, I'm half redneck, I listen to country music, and have been known to wear my Stetsons weekly. Slammed trucks look cool, but are not my personality at all. I see slammed trucks as pretty useless, like defeating the purpose of a truck. I work on a gravel road and most of my clients (oil company execs) are all southern rednecks too. We like bigger, faster, etc..
MarkZ71, I'm a Texan and proud to admit that I don't have to agree with anything that goes on in Alabama <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_tounge.gif" />
-Tony
Don't worry, I'm half redneck, I listen to country music, and have been known to wear my Stetsons weekly. Slammed trucks look cool, but are not my personality at all. I see slammed trucks as pretty useless, like defeating the purpose of a truck. I work on a gravel road and most of my clients (oil company execs) are all southern rednecks too. We like bigger, faster, etc..
MarkZ71, I'm a Texan and proud to admit that I don't have to agree with anything that goes on in Alabama <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_tounge.gif" />
-Tony
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Nine Ball:
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ummm, those Krylon looking spray painted quality flames on your own truck do a good job of that too <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_tounge.gif" />
I'm not doing this to go offroading or mudding. If I owned a 4x4, I'd never use the front axle anyways. Performance? BWHAHAHA! I've got a 10-second Formula for that.
-Tony[/QB][/QUOTE]Tony you know you want some Krylon painted flames on the Formula...LOL To each his own. If you didn't want a reply, then why did you ask? Mabey you can put the formula motor in the truck and sport some 44's...Big foot style. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ummm, those Krylon looking spray painted quality flames on your own truck do a good job of that too <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_tounge.gif" />
I'm not doing this to go offroading or mudding. If I owned a 4x4, I'd never use the front axle anyways. Performance? BWHAHAHA! I've got a 10-second Formula for that.
-Tony[/QB][/QUOTE]Tony you know you want some Krylon painted flames on the Formula...LOL To each his own. If you didn't want a reply, then why did you ask? Mabey you can put the formula motor in the truck and sport some 44's...Big foot style. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
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Make all the comments you guys want, but the fact is, WAY too many people buy the biggest damn vehicle they can get their hands on these days. It's gotten way out of hand.
Here, here is a picture I shot while sitting in my little fuel efficient C5 at a light. 13 trucks/SUV's/Minivans behind me in the lane next to me, and although the picture doesnt show it, my lane had 10 in a row (can only see 3 in the pic).
<img src="http://home.austin.rr.com/jmx/trucks.jpg" alt=" - " />
RE-DAMN-DICULOUS
A big *** lifted truck annoys me because:
1) I cant see past it in traffic, meaning its hard for me to react to stuff ahead early on the road
2) The headlights are so high they shine right at my eyes at night
3) The huge *** tires which are now not in a wheel well fling up every little rock and dirt back at the cars behind them
4) If the truck also has a chrome bumper, it puts the bumper at the perfect hieght for MY headlights to reflect off the chrome bumper and shine right back in my face! That is just dangerous.
5) If the bumpers were not relocated, the bumpers are so high that it screws up the safety of any sort of collision for the other vehicle, assuming again the other vehicle isn't a jacked up redneck truck too.
To sum up, you are annoying the **** out of everybody else. But hey, **** em, right?
<small>[ December 08, 2002, 01:25 AM: Message edited by: jmX ]</small>
Here, here is a picture I shot while sitting in my little fuel efficient C5 at a light. 13 trucks/SUV's/Minivans behind me in the lane next to me, and although the picture doesnt show it, my lane had 10 in a row (can only see 3 in the pic).
<img src="http://home.austin.rr.com/jmx/trucks.jpg" alt=" - " />
RE-DAMN-DICULOUS
A big *** lifted truck annoys me because:
1) I cant see past it in traffic, meaning its hard for me to react to stuff ahead early on the road
2) The headlights are so high they shine right at my eyes at night
3) The huge *** tires which are now not in a wheel well fling up every little rock and dirt back at the cars behind them
4) If the truck also has a chrome bumper, it puts the bumper at the perfect hieght for MY headlights to reflect off the chrome bumper and shine right back in my face! That is just dangerous.
5) If the bumpers were not relocated, the bumpers are so high that it screws up the safety of any sort of collision for the other vehicle, assuming again the other vehicle isn't a jacked up redneck truck too.
To sum up, you are annoying the **** out of everybody else. But hey, **** em, right?
<small>[ December 08, 2002, 01:25 AM: Message edited by: jmX ]</small>
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by jmX:
<strong>But hey, **** em, right?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, it's about that simple. I don't live my life for anyone else's convience, and I sure don't expect them to cater to me.
Their cash, their decision.
- Matt <img border="0" alt="[guns]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_guns.gif" />
<strong>But hey, **** em, right?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, it's about that simple. I don't live my life for anyone else's convience, and I sure don't expect them to cater to me.
Their cash, their decision.
- Matt <img border="0" alt="[guns]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_guns.gif" />
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<img border="0" alt="[whiner]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cry.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[whiner]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cry.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[whiner]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cry.gif" />
is it me or is someone crying?
is it me or is someone crying?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by BadBlackZ:
<strong> <img border="0" alt="[whiner]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cry.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[whiner]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cry.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[whiner]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cry.gif" />
is it me or is someone crying?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's you.
<strong> <img border="0" alt="[whiner]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cry.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[whiner]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cry.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[whiner]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cry.gif" />
is it me or is someone crying?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's you.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Magnus357:
<strong>I don't live my life for anyone else's convience, and I sure don't expect them to cater to me.
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I guess that's the difference between you and me. If everybody was so selfish and didn't care about what they were doing to others this would be a pretty shitty world to live in. Er...wait...this is a pretty shitty place sometimes. Nevermind. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
YEEHAW for yuppies in big trucks! <img border="0" alt="[barf]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_barf.gif" />
<strong>I don't live my life for anyone else's convience, and I sure don't expect them to cater to me.
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I guess that's the difference between you and me. If everybody was so selfish and didn't care about what they were doing to others this would be a pretty shitty world to live in. Er...wait...this is a pretty shitty place sometimes. Nevermind. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
YEEHAW for yuppies in big trucks! <img border="0" alt="[barf]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_barf.gif" />