Customs What is "PROPER STANCE"????

Also, a hot rod CAN BE TOO LOW!

While we're at it, more chop DOES NOT EQUAL MORE COOL!

The right amount of chop does however equal COOL!

 

Here is the proper stance

Frenchy

 

I would agree, does the car (hotrod or custom) scream "CHOPPED" or do the lines look proportioned.
Same is true for lowering, some cars just look broken.
You'll get alot of opinions and it depends on the car. Like grandpa used to say, "If we all liked the same thing, we would all be sleeping with grandma."

 

I just dropped my 63 1/2 Galaxie 3 inches in the rear with blocks. Had to cut out the drive shaft tunnel out under rear seat to stop it from rubbing form a new one and weld it back in... TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!! Pile up here I come "dragging tail" all the way!

 

proper stance to me means ass-low for pre '53.

 

2005, Big Olds with no interior, windows, top, etc. I knew the stance wasn't were I wanted it BUT I also knew I needed to wait till I had all the weight in the car to determine how much lower I wanted to go in the front.


2009, after everything was completed including 2 inch drop spindles installed.


Might not look like alot in the photos but really made a differance in person.

 

This 55 sits good IMO

 

nose down ass up thats the way i liked to.... oh wait we're talking about cars.

 

Stole these pics from the 'net;

 

This one's really draggin' it's ass!

 

Thanx for the encouragement to ask questions that you should already know the answer too. Cause your opinion an someone elses can be totally different. In my opinion is low sleeek and sexy with the tail draggin like it's a beautiful fat ass.

 

agreed, but a custom can not

 

I have to disagree, a custom can be to low as well. Sitting on the ground is not a stance.

 

LOL, one of my favorite lines ever came from someone here on the HAMB: "If ya can't sleep under it, it ain't a highboy!"

 

Here's my two, both have bags, one's a custom and one's a streetrod.

 

My opinion of proper custom stance.

 

My 50 Buick, I like the stance. Rags

 

"Proper Stance" occurs when you set the space between your frame and the ground 1/2 inch less then the average speed-bump height in your town.

 

draw a line from the bottom of the front rim to the botton of the rear rim. The bottom for the car should be parallel to, and no lower than this line. Talkin rods here not customs. Thats a different story.

 

Skullcrackers 55 has the proper stance

 

I worked long and hard to get the stance right on my old truck. I think I nailed it. Is it too low? I don't think so. Scrub line sucks but I drive the snot out of it any way.
Later,
Dick

 

Just short of being too low.

 

I would consider that a near perfect (if not perfect) stance for a custom. I dig the way the Sam Barris Merc sits. It's not completely hammered but certainly has stance and style. Your car follows that same formula too I think.

 

For customs just look at Larry Watson's "The Grapevine" or Duane Steck's "Moonglow" or Lanny Ericson's "Violet Fantasy". Those are on the low side. On the high side look at Reverend Larry Ernst '51 Chevy. That car is perfect. Those are all somewhere around perfect in my book.

 

that there is an Indiana race car at least thats what we called cars jacked up in the back in Chicago

 

That's Stock height in the rear.(I cut 1 1/4 coils off the front)
Being out of work and having to pay for job training cuts into my car fund to lower the rear with 2" blocks.

 

Just short of being too low.

Is that possible on a Custom? Here are my two. Not low enough to suit me yet, but close.

 

x2 maybe they just need to be told

 

I consider mine a Hot Rod stance.........not sure if anyone else agrees

 

Works for me too. Great looking car