someotherguy
Truly Awesome
I've had a bunch of dailys in the past that were nearly that low, static, and as Trio mentioned "my youth is in my rear view mirror" 
I dig them low but driving them anywhere around here (Houston) is a nightmare. I've bounced more air dams, crossmembers, tailpipes, frame rails, gas tank straps (!), and more off of crappy roads than I can recall.
My '54 Chevy 210 was so low that it ground the tailpipe off at an angle from driveway ramps (rear suspension had so many leafs pulled it sat on the bumpstops), and my '92 Chevy ECLB frequently dragged one of its gas tank straps on steep driveways. Couldn't keep a valance on that truck, and it was so long I had to be sure to pull all the way into a parking space; you knew you were "there" when the sway bar bushing brackets on the frame hit the parking stop and lifted the front of the truck. Yeah, I replaced a few of those over the years..
A big part of why our streets are so bad in Houston is that they are designed to be part of the storm drain system. It floods so easily here, but the water is meant to run off the land into the streets and down into the bayous, etc. Our streets are literally trash. I had taken this video a few weeks ago to demonstrate how bad the sharp bumps are on a particular path I take during work, explaining how I broke an oil pan on a car I was towing.
Volume up, you can hear my wrecker beating itself to death on this street at a mere 20 MPH. That big oil slick down the middle of the street that appears in front of me at the 35 second mark or so is from the car I was towing the previous night.
Richard
I dig them low but driving them anywhere around here (Houston) is a nightmare. I've bounced more air dams, crossmembers, tailpipes, frame rails, gas tank straps (!), and more off of crappy roads than I can recall.My '54 Chevy 210 was so low that it ground the tailpipe off at an angle from driveway ramps (rear suspension had so many leafs pulled it sat on the bumpstops), and my '92 Chevy ECLB frequently dragged one of its gas tank straps on steep driveways. Couldn't keep a valance on that truck, and it was so long I had to be sure to pull all the way into a parking space; you knew you were "there" when the sway bar bushing brackets on the frame hit the parking stop and lifted the front of the truck. Yeah, I replaced a few of those over the years..
A big part of why our streets are so bad in Houston is that they are designed to be part of the storm drain system. It floods so easily here, but the water is meant to run off the land into the streets and down into the bayous, etc. Our streets are literally trash. I had taken this video a few weeks ago to demonstrate how bad the sharp bumps are on a particular path I take during work, explaining how I broke an oil pan on a car I was towing.
Volume up, you can hear my wrecker beating itself to death on this street at a mere 20 MPH. That big oil slick down the middle of the street that appears in front of me at the 35 second mark or so is from the car I was towing the previous night.
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Richard
