Tail Dragging

[Steve Wolfe]

Anyone know what they're calling the jacked-up front with headlights blinding air traffic and rear ends dropped so your groceries all roll out when you open your tailgate? What is the value or intention? I can already imagine a number of problems with it like oil starvation if you're a quart low, visibility when parking, seeing people, especially children, crossing the street.

 

[iamdub]

Anyone know what they're calling the jacked-up front with headlights blinding air traffic and rear ends dropped so your groceries all roll out when you open your tailgate?

It's known by many names, often determined by location: "Tennessee Tilt", "Carolina Squat", etc. More universally known as "squatted".

What is the value or intention? I can already imagine a number of problems with it like oil starvation if you're a quart low, visibility when parking, seeing people, especially children, crossing the street.

To get your attention and to feel accepted by the others that rely on the same attention for validation and acceptance. When the stupid stance doesn't get enough eyes on them, they install straight pipes and horn speakers and leave their stereos blasting at the gas station so everyone HAS to hear their autotune bleeping and blurping for a 1/4 mile radius. Oil starvation doesn't seem to be an issue in most examples. Probably cuz the sump is in the rearmost part of the engine. I have noticed that they seem to be commonly for sale on Marketplace due to needing a transmission, or after having a transmission replaced. So, maybe it affects the trans more than anything. Visibility (in any sense), handling dynamics, mechanical damage, the basic undeniable stupid appearance... All are not a concern and you'll never find a "squatter" that's not in denial about those factors. They got your attention, good or bad and that's all they need. Reliable and useful vehicles that aren't a life-threatening danger are boring and don't garner the attention that being "locally hated" does.

 

[Sparksalot]

Saw this earlier today.

 

[Joseph Garcia]

Some people will follow anything, no matter how dumb it looks, just because someone else did it and said that it was cool to do. In our country, we're free to do stupid things.

 

[iamdub]

Some people will follow anything, no matter how dumb it looks, just because someone else did it and said that it was cool to do. In our country, we're free to do stupid things.

And we're free to call 'em out on said stupid things. Lucky for them, there are people that say it looks cool. This comes in handy when they're on the side of the road, sitting there lookin all cool and shit with their roached transmission and unable to do others harm.

 

[Joseph Garcia]

And we're free to call 'em out on said stupid things. Lucky for them, there are people that say it looks cool. This comes in handy when they're on the side of the road, sitting there lookin all cool and shit with their roached transmission.

Absolutely! Particularly when their mod creates safety issues for other drivers on the road.

 

[iamdub]

Absolutely! Particularly when their mod creates safety issues for other drivers on the road.

Edited previous post for thoroughness

 

[Marky Dissod]

Saw this earlier today.
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When dogs are trying to scratch their bungholes by dragging them on the ground, it's because they have no fingers or thumbs, and it's the best they can do given the limits of their intelligence and the compulsion to scratch an insufferable itch.

What are these schmucktards trying to do?
It's so painfully clear that this is the most willfully idiotic thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
I've seen failed suicide attempts that were far more thoughtfully considered and much less wasteful.

 

[Steve Wolfe]

Anyone know what they're calling the jacked-up front with headlights blinding air traffic and rear ends dropped so your groceries all roll out when you open your tailgate? What is the value or intention? I can already imagine a number of problems with it like oil starvation if you're a quart low, visibility when parking, seeing people, especially children, crossing the street.

Thanks guys for all the great answers.

 

[03yukXL]

It’s like a mix between a lifted truck and a low rider. Maybe sometimes it identifies as lifted, other times as low?

 

[B-train]

This has been an entertaining read. I agree with everyone on this. What cracks me up is watching them trying to drive said monstrosities.........they are either hugging the wheel so they can actually sit in a normal position AND try to see over the hood. Or, they got the ghetto lean out the door like a boss........what a bunch of dopes.

 

[gooffeyguy]

Maybe they want a lifted truck and can only afford or install half of it currently.

Or at least that's what I've been told



I just start laughing hysterically when I see one, and make sure the driver sees me doing it when they go by

 

[iamdub]

Maybe they want a lifted truck and can only afford or install half of it currently.

Or at least that's what I've been told



I just start laughing hysterically when I see one, and make sure the driver sees me doing it when they go by

Which is exactly what they crave- your attention, positive or negative. If negative, then they "win" cuz they get to label you a h8ter.

 

[gooffeyguy]

Which is exactly what they crave- your attention, positive or negative. If negative, then they "win" cuz they get to label you a h8ter.

Label me what they want. I don't know them and only see them drive by or at an intersection for a few seconds and never see them again. Makes me feel better

 

[Marky Dissod]

Maybe they want a lifted truck and can only afford or install half of it currently.
Or at least that's what I've been told


I just start laughing hysterically when I see one, and make sure the driver sees me doing it when they go by

Which is exactly what they crave- your attention, positive or negative.
If negative, then they "win" cuz they get to label you a h8ter.

To paraphrase Dave Chappelle badly:
I drink hater-ade.
They drink fool-ade.​

 

[972sparky]

Outlawed in NC and soon in SC thankfully!

 

[nonickatall]

Saw this earlier today.

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If I, as a German, saw such cars at a gas station, I would stick the card of my workshop under the windshield wiper.

But then again, I understand these guys. if you drive an American truck, which, compared to an overengineered German car, rarely breaks down seriously, then that's exactly what you're missing and you want to have the feeling that something is wrong with your car.

So it's probably some kind of subtle American humor..i

 

[homesick]

... It's so painfully clear that this is the most willfully idiotic thing I've ever seen in my entire life....

Fashion.

LOL, Fashion is responsible for more sins than most anything else I've seen. Luckily, lots of those bad ideas recycle and come back around.

joe

 

[Marky Dissod]

Fashion made neither you nor I do any Carolina Squatting - you and I (among other ... RESPONSIBLE people) are responsible for NOT doing it.
Some fashions are dumber than others, Carolina Squat is dumber than nearly all of them ...
... but neither the Carolina Squat nor 'Fashion' can be responsible for making dumb people do dumb schidt.
Dumb people are responsible for doing dumb schidt.

 

[homesick]

Fashion made neither you nor I do any Carolina Squatting - you and I (among other ... RESPONSIBLE people) are responsible for NOT doing it.
Some fashions are dumber than others, Carolina Squat is dumber than nearly all of them ...
... but neither the Carolina Squat nor 'Fashion' can be responsible for making dumb people do dumb schidt.
Dumb people are responsible for doing dumb schidt.

And those are the lemmings who chase from one fashion to the next.

joe