Dang....He be trippin now. At be one bumpin ride, yo. I thought I waz pimpin' wit' my T on 17's. I'z got to go bak to the trailr park now. I got ta slap my ho and get her offa that welfare juice so I can git me sum of them. Then I can put my 17's on my Yugo wit its 'raulics and 15 jigawat stereo (thanks prof. Brown for dat flux-thigamajig), it be one bangin ride. Park it in da hood wid my slammed 4x4 'burban and my in da weeds dually 1-ton. I'd have the dopest skreet in all North Cakalacky. Ricers suxs. Pimp out American. WORD.....PEACE.
But seriously and thankfully those are still the exception and not the norm in N.C. but they are gaining popularity all of the time. So far it seems to be mostly limited to otherwise uncollectworthy cars. 60-70s 4-door big cars and 70-80s intermediates plain Montes, Regals, Malibus. It makes sense to an extent. Instead of taking a $40,000+ 4x4 dually, dropping it and ruining it for the purpose for which it was intended. They take a $400 Caprice add $100 worth of bondo put up in the air with $4,000+ worth of rims and a high quality paint job. (I work in an autoparts store and I know of one regal owner who bought 17 spray cans of color change paint. De-pressurized the cans with a freon tap and sprayed his car with that and cleared it. It actually turned out pretty good, considering.) You end up with a $5,000 dollar car that you don't have to have full coverage on, you didn't ruin the utility of it and since it rode like a barge to start with riding like a wagon is not a problem. And it draws it's shares of looks although most of them are saying "What the he??" Not to mention the laughs it gets when they are trying to park. They're two schools of modification to me. Function and form. When I see a mod done just for form that ruins the function I have to ask why? Take a collectible muscle car and it does hurt my heart when it is ruined like this. It is the current answer to low-riders and rice. I think I prefer rice.