Customs Lake pipes or not

Looks great!

 

I thought mine looked a bit plain on the bottom and added the lakes for some pop.
I like the look on mine and yours.
Tim

 

Nice front end treatment on that chevy

 

Listen to no one, do what you want, put them on if you like them. They look fine on your Plymouth. JW

 

I have had 2 cars with lake pipes and took them off both.

 

Nice job! I like them!

In response to them being mounted on the bottom and getting damaged....yup. Sure do. Part of the cost of driving a static dropped, low car on the street. Pat Ganahl stopped to talk to me about my Chevy at the Gathering at the Roc a few years ago and told me Larry Watson used to buy lake pipes by the case, replacing them frequently on his cars from damage. I've just replaced mine after a mishap with brand new bump in the road on my regular route to work. Stuff happens....there's a price to be paid for looking good. And, yes, they are functional 100% of the time...LOL

 

Static lowered, full length side pipes, and real exhaust... COOL

 

Hi Randy! There's another guy who has eaten a set or two of pipes I imagine.

 

10-4 Dave...
This pic was the trip starting out to put the car in the GNRS in 2010.
Made it 60 miles from home in Oregon and still only had 800 more miles to get there.
RH side pipe suffered pretty badly but never knew it til got to LA...
Oh well goes with actually driving them

p.s.
my fix for saving the low pipes was to weld a box tubing
to the bottom of the frame like a sled runner.. about 1/2 " lower than pipes
RR
that slowed down the fragile pipe carnage.

 

Yikes! Fortunately that wasn't worse! I just went back and looked at the pics I took of your car at that show and sure enough....I see it now. Never noticed it until this moment.

I love the skid bar idea....I'm doing that since I have a brand new set on. Thanks for the tip!

 

I’m a little late to be on the -or not- team. Still trying to figure out the allure of lake pipes and spot lights. Often for me they interrupt the flow…

 

I prefer the lake pipes on most cars but spotlights, I'm not a fan. Though they are installed on my 41 Ford before I got it and they do work so I left them in.

 

On spotlights it really depends on the car and the actual build on the car. Some cars they look like a wart on an exotic dancers butt. Others they look like dusk till dawn era Salma lol

 

About this dancer...

 

Didn't catch till after the fact that something about my analogy unintentionally made it a very fitting one lol. While I think a butt wart is unattractive there are some that something like that appeals to them. So while some cars I don't dig spots on there are others that think they're essential to the look of that exact build

 

Definitely yes!! And functional as well!!!

 

Hello,

Nice look on your Chevy custom. Yours is the only other one with a front cover on the lakes pipes, other than the old Buick sedan we saw several years ago and then again repainted/modified.

In looking at the photos I took, the Buick sedan had to have some kind of adjustable suspension. The street my wife and I were on has two deep cross ruts that require all cars to slow down, even if they are not lowered. So, if the purple Buick approached those cross drainage ruts, it definitely would scrape, or get stuck. An adjustable suspension would allow him to raise the sedan, cross the deep rut and continue onward.


Jnaki

Here is a more recent photo with some modifications in the stage or finished project. Now, the cover to the lakes pipes seems to have disappeared with the color change. But, still as low as before on a totally flat surface… YRMV