stone lowering blocks?

i just bought a 50 ford crestliner...mild early '50s custom...back end's been lowered with 3" blocks...they're f*cken cast concrete!
anyone EVER seen this before? how old do you reckon they are?
i'm not even going to ask if they're safe...new metal ones on order already...

thanks...larry

 

Get them outta there NOW!!!

 

i saw a pic once of pipe.... not good idea, LMAO.. but LOTS of thigs have been used... anything thats free!! LMAO.. we make em outta square tubing and arc weld em about 1/4" thick tubing.... thatsa strong enough...

 

Hahahahahahahahaha Fred and Barney would be proud ,you dont have a hole in the floor for ya feet too do ya?..................lmfao...............Marq

 

general gow i'm in medford...
the blocks will be replaced this weekend...i have an image in my mind of hitting a bump and having them just crumble from age...

 

I see tech coming..."Cast your own cool parts out of..."

And in a few years, a new trend will revolutionize the look of things...with carbide tooling, we could MILL GROOVES in the stuff for a really cool look...we could call it "Billet"...

And wheels...the sky is the limit!

I'm off to the patent office...excuse me...

 

And concrete is sure as hell traditional...I just noticed in an ancient "Honk" a want ad selling a mild custom late thirties Ford--one of its star features was rear lowering by having the tool compartment in the rear pan filled with concrete! There's more than one way to lower you ride with concrete!

 

What's next? Opening a hole in the floorboard for the Fred Flinstone method just in case the brakes don't work?

At least you have the sense to order real ones. And save the ghetto blocks for fun.

 

don't know what's scarier...lowering blocks made of concrete, or putting them UNDER the springs like some people did for that "jacked up" look back in the 70s...

My brother-in-law had a car with bricks...good old red bricks...for blocks to raise it up

get them outta there man, they weren't safe when new, and they sure as hell aren't safe now.

 

baaaaaahahahahhahahahha...looks like you beat me to it!...LOL!!

 

There's a difference between unsafe and just plain stupid...

 

If it were a car from some TV star 'rodder' shop they'd be marble... and really smooth!!

 

I guess it's better than wood.

 

i don't know...wood could be less likely to suffer catastrophic failure than concrete...

 

Very true.
Try an aluminum magnet to be sure, it won't stick to concrete.

Cosmo

 

hmmmmmm i wonder if anyone made a concrete intake?? hahaha

 

I think Katfish is right, I've seen lowering blocks look like that after a while.

 

nope these are NOT aluminum they ARE concrete...we've been scratching our heads and laughing about them at the shop...it must've been a 'mickey mouse' job because no one has ever seen anything like 'em and i couldn't find anything in old speed catalogs...
i'll post pics after they come out next week...

 

Thats great. I usually just use popsicle sticks....

 

I prefer Spam cans.

 

Obviouslly the car came from Somerville.....a lot of mason workers in that town.

 

There are quite a few concrete boats floating around.
It was quite the rage for a while, at least it was until people realized the hull was less than half the cost of a complete boat power or sail.

Sad story from back in the day.
Four guys from the next town over lowered their car with large pieces of a broken up cement sidewalk (footpath for the Oz guys).

They hit a tree at maybe 45 per or so.
A speed and wreck that should have had some survivors.
Not this time, the cement blocks swept through the car and killed em all.