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Posted: 3/11/2017 9:10:05 AM EST

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Used to see them quite a bit. Waste of a good truck to me.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:10:18 AM EST

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I went to Myrtle Beach yesterday and saw probably 50+ trucks where the front end was lifted and the back was either factory height or lowered. It was always a 90s or early 2000s domestic truck(and a couple SUVs) often accompanied by chrome rims, hid headlights, underlighting, and probably copious amounts of florida georgia line.

Seems to me like it makes the truck completely worthless, but maybe that is just me. Some googling has revealed to me that it is called the "carolina squat"

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Aynor squat. Boys right down the road from me started it.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:10:32 AM EST

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It's kind of like a reverse mullet. It's lifted in the front for hillbilly fun, but the back is low enough that the tiny little beta male wearing white Oakleys and an affliction shirt can still use the pick up bed for his work release construction job on Monday.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:11:07 AM EST

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Whats old is new again... And on trucks now.

Didn't gearheads do this to their cars in the 50's-60's?

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Yes but it was to put the weight on the back tires to promote traction. Not to drive up hill all day because you think it looks cool.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:11:26 AM EST

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HEdad doesn't know anything about trucks. Its harder and more expansive to make a 4x4 long travel.

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It's always been a fad in SoCal. It looked like they were pre runner trucks, but they were always 2wd trucks

A lot of serious pre runners are 2wd.

HEdad doesn't know anything about trucks. Its harder and more expansive to make a 4x4 long travel.

Most people around here don't know anything about trucks. Anything bigger than a stock 2wd Taco is a brodozer.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:12:50 AM EST

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It was the cali lean 20 years ago. SC just discovered it last year when they got AOL and 56k

Seriously, been around forever, just usually on better looking trucks than that pile of crap.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:13:55 AM EST

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You don't. That's why it's fucking retarded. It's the same reason even a leveling kit is retarded.

There is a reason a truck meant to tow and haul shit comes from the factory with a bit of a rake to it. It's that you're not staring at the clouds when you use your truck to do, you know, truck shit. Like haul loads or tow shit.

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Actually it comes from the factory with a rake to help with the wind tunnel and government mandated fuel economy.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:19:41 AM EST

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Actually it comes from the factory with a rake to help with the wind tunnel and government mandated fuel economy.

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Better aero and fuel economy is a good thing, no?

Anyway, If that shit is not illegal for looking completely retarded, it should be for the fact it can potentially hinder the driver's view.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:19:56 AM EST

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Well obliviously you guys cant see that the Invisible trailer he is hauling is overloaded

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:20:10 AM EST

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I have heard it referred to as "stinkbuggin" in the Jeep community.

I actually drove my Cherokee to work like that once but it was because I got the 3" lift coils in with no time to do the leafs before it got dark. I can't tell if people thought it was cool because I was hanging my head in shame.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:37:21 AM EST

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Posted: 3/11/2017 9:37:38 AM EST

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Seen it here but they called it "Bulldogging"

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:41:01 AM EST

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that's what I've always thought it was called.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:43:29 AM EST

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Whats old is new again... And on trucks now.

Didn't gearheads do this to their cars in the 50's-60's?

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If I remember correctly, since I was around back then. It was the other way around. We lifted the rear end. Sometimes high enough you had to carry blocks to get the bumper jack to work.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:46:13 AM EST

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Whats old is new again... And on trucks now.

Didn't gearheads do this to their cars in the 50's-60's?

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When my dad saw one of these trucks he said they used to do the same thing in the 50's. There are lots of them around here. Looks to me like a dog taking a shit.

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:53:47 AM EST

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maybe it's done for a beater sand dune crawler truck.

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Posted: 3/11/2017 9:54:04 AM EST

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If I remember correctly, since I was around back then. It was the other way around. We lifted the rear end. Sometimes high enough you had to carry blocks to get the bumper jack to work.

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I remember guys using air shocks in the rear of their muscle cars back in the 70's

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:56:19 AM EST

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This has was catching on in central CA 6-7 years ago before I left

Posted: 3/11/2017 9:57:49 AM EST

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Yeah, I see it quite often.
But usually on small jap trucks from CA.
I think they like to hang out down in Glamis.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:02:36 AM EST

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Back in my teenage years we would cruise Oscars Drive-In in Santa Ana. One night I remember a guy towed a cool gas coupe through the parking area. It had a jacked up front end (typical for the drag strip) but seemed a little higher than normal. When he stopped and people gathered around to check it out it became obvious why it was so high.....no engine.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:02:59 AM EST

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Occasionally see a pre-runner style build, which is fine, but thankfully that retarded Carolina trend hasn't made it here.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:04:49 AM EST

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Sweet baby Jesus, that looks dumber than fuck... and I'm very surprised I've yet to see it in my AO.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:07:07 AM EST

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I heard it called Escondido rake

eta to mimic these

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Guys used to put straight axle front ends on gassers for drag racing but for totally different reasons.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:07:39 AM EST

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Wrong sort of truck and in the wrong location but it looks like the "pre-runner" look of the desert running trucks.

Pre-running is where the racers go out and run the race course beforehand taking notes on each jump and turn. The navigator uses these notes to let the driver know how hard and fast to take each bend and hidden jump.

The higher suspension lift in the front is meant to give extra travel to compensate for the mass of the engine and crew which bias the center of gravity forward. The pre-runners favor light and more narrow trucks than the ones in your photo. The Toyota Tacoma likely accounts for +50% of the pre-runners.

Why someone in the Carolina's would mimic this is puzzling.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:09:12 AM EST

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Posted: 3/11/2017 10:09:26 AM EST

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Yea faggots in the barracks always got those parked in the lot

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:11:20 AM EST

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It looks like a dog taking a shit, plus it's a really stupid thing to do to a utility vehicle.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:11:48 AM EST

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Whats old is new again... And on trucks now.

Didn't gearheads do this to their cars in the 50's-60's?

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Oh yeh. In the 50's they couldn't make up their minds between
raised fronts or raised rears.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:12:08 AM EST

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Just when I thought "mini truckin" was the gayest thing you could do to a pickup...

I've got a guy near me that did the opposite on his Cobalt SS. He's got the back end raised up about 2 or 3 inches like the old muscle car guys used to do.

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He probably bought lowering springs and got the front and rear mixed up. Lol. Used to have to fix that shit for kids all the time

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:12:58 AM EST

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The Escondido rake

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Only applies to trucks with white fiberglass flared fenders......

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:14:43 AM EST

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Sadly it's relatively common here. It's usually paired with a Yeti/Costa/Salt Life sticker and black and chrome wheels.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:15:37 AM EST

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White people...

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:15:42 AM EST

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See it every day. Stupid is as Stupid does.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:18:10 AM EST

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Wrong sort of truck and in the wrong location but it looks like the "pre-runner" look of the desert running trucks.

Pre-running is where the racers go out and run the race course beforehand taking notes on each jump and turn. The navigator uses these notes to let the driver know how hard and fast to take each bend and hidden jump.

The higher suspension lift in the front is meant to give extra travel to compensate for the mass of the engine and crew which bias the center of gravity forward. The pre-runners favor light and more narrow trucks than the ones in your photo. The Toyota Tacoma likely accounts for +50% of the pre-runners.

Why someone in the Carolina's would mimic this is puzzling.

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The're not really mimicking pre-runners. They're just making useless faggotmobiles.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:25:40 AM EST

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There's your problem.

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I went to Myrtle Beach yesterday

There's your problem.

LOL, yup. Dirty Myrtle.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:29:57 AM EST

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I have never seen anything like this. Must be a southern thing.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:30:34 AM EST

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big chrome rims sounds mexican. The front lifted more is common around here and known as the Lakeside Rake, its a bro off roader want to be look. but its on rangers with offroad tires not big chrome rims.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:31:14 AM EST

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Hmm a red neck version of a low rider.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:34:17 AM EST

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Whats old is new again... And on trucks now.

Didn't gearheads do this to their cars in the 50's-60's?

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There is nothing new under the sun. Just people who have little idea of what has been done before.
Raising the front end was popular for a time. Later raising the rear end was a fad.

I'm sure that one will make a comeback too.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:36:20 AM EST

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No matter how odd, bizarre, strange, and just plain fucked up something is, there will be tens of thousands of idiots who will do it, and think it is really "cool".

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:37:06 AM EST

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Found a picture of the OP at his house.

Posted: 3/11/2017 10:46:52 AM EST

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Better aero and fuel economy is a good thing, no?

Anyway, If that shit is not illegal for looking completely retarded, it should be for the fact it can potentially hinder the driver's view.

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Actually it comes from the factory with a rake to help with the wind tunnel and government mandated fuel economy.

Better aero and fuel economy is a good thing, no?

Anyway, If that shit is not illegal for looking completely retarded, it should be for the fact it can potentially hinder the driver's view.

My truck actually has louvers that open and close in front of the radiator. When cruising in the highway you apparently don't need a lot of wind going through the radiator so the louvers close to prevent the drag of air flowing through it.

Posted: 3/11/2017 11:15:46 AM EST

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Oh yeh. In the 50's they couldn't make up their minds between
raised fronts or raised rears.

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Dealing with shit tires you either put as much weight on them as possible or as big of a tire as possible.

Posted: 3/11/2017 11:22:14 AM EST

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Only applies to trucks with white fiberglass flared fenders......

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The Escondido rake

Only applies to trucks with white fiberglass flared fenders......

The prerunner thing is for a different reason.

Then again, the white front fender and wheel spacer crowd is emulating the look with zero of the performance reason for the lean and the fenders.

Posted: 3/11/2017 11:23:05 AM EST

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Urban youth version of the brodozer.

Posted: 3/11/2017 11:26:26 AM EST

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It's so they can drag their truck balls down the road.....

Posted: 3/11/2017 11:32:37 AM EST

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It's always been a fad in SoCal. It looked like they were pre runner trucks, but they were always 2wd trucks

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LOL , I've got news for you, the majority of Baja race trucks and prerunners are 2wd.

Posted: 3/11/2017 11:34:55 AM EST

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In my part of NC, we generally refer to them as Faggots.

Posted: 3/11/2017 11:37:21 AM EST

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Weird, never seen that stance on a truck unless they are towing something heavy. Must be a local fad

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A properly distributed load (over the trailer axles) won't squat a truck like that. If it does, you need airbags. A truck squatted like that is fucked.